From BB-Ref, which isn't fully up-to-date, we were at:
Those numbers are wrong. The luxury tax is $123.7 million and we are $10.1 million under counting Baynes. That counts Wannamaker too. Williams eats up $1.6 million of that, which leaves us with $8.5 million. Cutting Nader is an essentially free $800,000 if he isn't replaced (he's the 15th man after either Smart is signed or the MLE is used). Trading Morris for a couple seconds and cutting Nader would free up enough space for Smart on the QO and a full MLE deal. I'd prefer Smart signed long term. I also still think it's possible the luxury tax isn't an issue and Ainge takes advantage of the current cap environment to lock in another rotation piece on a good value long term contract while also locking down Smart.
Yeah, LeBron is gone, the guy whose roster spot is on the bubble is Morris, and there are a lot of teams that could really use him about now (Houston, Utah, OKC, Portland, etc.).
Not that I'm doubting you, but how are they wrong? Like, which player's numbers do they have wrong? For example, the rookie scale lists #27 at $1,378,700. Why is it $1.6? Is there some AAV thing going on here?
If Smart is locked down I'm not seeing a lot of rotation space available for another player.
Teams can sign rookies anywhere in the range of 80% to 120% of the rookie scale, and 120% is most commonly used as the multiplier.
I didn't look at their specific numbers, so I do not know how they are wrong. I know they are wrong because the correct number is the one I provided and the numbers you posted are not that.
This says the QO for Smart was a bit over $6m
Baynes is only $5.36M and your not counting the $831K committed to Wannamaker. The numbers are, with rounding, what I posted above. There is about $8.5 million in space under the tax threshold (I could be off by $100k or so).
Yeah, Morris' job just relocated to LA, Boston is adding a tough two way wing to next year's roster, and Jayson Tatum was better than even those of us touting him last spring thought he would be. Morris is now roster filler here, and there are several western conference teams that would love to add him to their rotation about now.
Houston is ideal to replace Ariza. I’d rather use Morris’s slot on a shooter like Ellington, and give Ojeleye a bigger role.
Are you suggesting they shitcan Nader, sign Bird, and open up a 2-Way spot for your boy Hassan? I might sign off on that, were I Ainge.
No.
Bird's future in Boston will be greatly impacted by what happens with Smart. I don't see any role ever for Nader and Yabusele.
Doubtful it happens but I wouldn't mind having Martin's toughness/rebounding/defense. Lose Allen and make Martin a D-League player on a 2-way contract. A #15 roster slot, filled by an enforcer with a chip on their shoulder wouldn't be the worse thing. Faried/Montrezl Harrell/Draymond Green-lite. Sounds better than Allen or even Nader/Yabusele.
I think they already have Kadeem Allen on a 2-way, so they are limited to one more (Bird or someone else) 2-way.
You'd think this is doing a solid for an ex-Bradley guy but Lemon nearly had a triple-double the other night in Vegas putting up a 19/9/8 line. He also dropped 40 on Maine on night in the G-League last year. He's an athletic, old school city type, baby-Iverson crossover type, playground guy scorer. His claim to fame was that during the Combine 4 years ago he put up a 48" vertical which exceeded both Wiggins and LaVine.
He also has a ++ NBA name to such a degree that he should consider copyrighting the phrase Lemon Drop.
I think that Leon was more mobile. That's saying something, since he went through like 5 ACLs.
