Monk went for the minimum?? Ughhhhh.
Edit: Not that he's a star or anything, but I certainly would have liked him off the bench as a scoring option.
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Edit: Not that he's a star or anything, but I certainly would have liked him off the bench as a scoring option.
As far as I know he's still under contract in Israel and there's no way he's getting enough as a marginal second round pick to afford the buyout. I know he wants to come over, but practically speaking he can't afford it.
I think that the C’s can spend $700K on a buyout before it affects the cap/tax. After that point, Madar has to pay the rest (which the C’s could conceivably compensate him to do). In a cost/benefit evaluation, there seems to be little incentive to bring him over this summer.
Most Euroleague teams hold their players hostage for early release, and even first rounders end up taking out loans to finance their buyouts. I'm just pointing out that there's no way a bank is underwriting that loan for a second rounder that's almost certainly not getting more than one or two guaranteed years.
I’m not disagreeing. I don’t see a real upside in bringing Madar over this summer, though it may be his preference.
I'm legit worried about the Blazers and Lillard now with them sitting on their hands and Melo leaving now.
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood. Yeah, no chance that Boston spends the max buyout money for a two way player.
So much for that Laker MLE. LOL!!! Kid from Compton has made a pretty nice life for himself at about $260m at the end of this deal.
I really like what their doing and feel that Ball/DeRozan is a significant talent upgrade. Adding these two to the Lavine/Vucevic core while still having Patrick Williams growing is a real nice start now that they added so many veterans/IQ guys since last deadline. To me this is a playoff team in the East having gone from Zach and a bunch of kids to Zach with 3 super high IQ veterans who are all above avg at their positions.
I agree it's a playoff team, but not a high upside one & they've mortgaged a lot of stuff to get there. It's probably better than their previous plan of drafting bad players & not doing much else, though.
I guess their '23 pick is only top 4 protected so they might as well try to be good.
It's definitely an interesting mix & we'll see how it plays out. Thought the Lonzo move was real nice. Not so much the Derozan one.
It will be fun to watch, though. Interesting mix of players.
It's definitely an interesting mix & we'll see how it plays out. Thought the Lonzo move was real nice. Not so much the Derozan one.
It will be fun to watch, though. Interesting mix of players.
That DeRozan move is hilariously awful. That’s one of the 10 worst contracts in the league already and they gave up legitimate assets in order to grossly overpay him (Thad Young was very good last year).
I loved the Lonzo move. Didn’t mind the Caruso one, even though I question the need and fit at this point.
Theyve spent a ton of money to ensure that they’re going to lose in the 1st round again.
Derozan is an unrestricted free agent, so Spurs can't technically match.
The Bulls don't have cap room, so the only way they can add Derozan is a s+t. So the Spurs can help out the Bulls in their acquisition if the Bulls offer something the Spurs want, or the Spurs could just say no thx & the Bulls can't get Derozan.
A) The Spurs can take on salary to help the Bulls get under the cap, and in return get draft picks or a nice young asset.
B) The Spurs along with all teams are subject to a salary floor at 90% of the cap. So with a salary like Derozan leaving, they need to either think about taking other reasonable assets from the signing team, or alternately once the good free agents are signed they have to sign some shlub for $15 million.
Pretty sure it's a matter of salary match not getting under the cap.
& the correct play to avoid the floor is to take on other people's bad contracts & receive assets to do it.
In this case, a 1st, 2 2nds, & a potentially movable Thad contract is a good haul.
And OKC has the cap space to accommodate some bad contracts:
View: https://twitter.com/BrandonRahbar/status/1422655510206164998
Coming soon... Chicago Bulls trade Demar DeRozan and 3 1st round picks to OKC for a protected 2nd round pick
Not that I suspect anyone cares, but I didn't see this posted yesterday:
View: https://twitter.com/JonKrawczynski/status/1422363805640761345
View: https://twitter.com/JonKrawczynski/status/1422363805640761345
No kidding! And you posted that before the Nunn signing, which is another terrible defensive player. The Lakers have made a lot of good deals for cheap money, but collectively they are a huge defensive downgrade...especially since they let Caruso walk. That team has been a the top of the league defensively the last 2 seasons and now...? AD will cover a lot of flaws, but not all of them.
In case you missed it:
View: https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1422633974640300036
ESPN story on Steph Curry agreeing on a four-year, $215M contract extension with the Warriors:
First player in NBA history to sign multiple $200m deals.
View: https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1422633974640300036
ESPN story on Steph Curry agreeing on a four-year, $215M contract extension with the Warriors:
First player in NBA history to sign multiple $200m deals.
View: https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1422666384765603844?s=20
Nunn to Lakers, 2yrs/$10 million, per Shams
Nunn to Lakers, 2yrs/$10 million, per Shams
I'm a bit surprised by how today went. I thought BOS would be making aggressive 1 year mini-MLE offers to some of the leftovers. Instead we're getting rumors that they might not even use it.
This feels like a throwaway year. Not just staying flexible long term for Beal, but a lot like they are under an ownership directive to keep the tax payments to the minimum they can.
This feels like a throwaway year. Not just staying flexible long term for Beal, but a lot like they are under an ownership directive to keep the tax payments to the minimum they can.
Yeah I wish we shuffled the deck chairs too. 90% of the deals handed out in the last 30 hours have been absolute junk, but I wish that we got some of that.