The best route is to protect the Trent and Brown assets — in personnel and dollar value — and act as an over-the-cap team that has the full mid-level exception of somewhere near $13 million.
The best route is to protect the Trent and Brown assets — in personnel and dollar value — and act as an over-the-cap team that has the full mid-level exception of somewhere near $13 million.
>That leaves Brown’s $23-million expiring contract in play, lets them see what the years and money on a new Trent deal will be, and leaves them with a nice chunk of money to tinker on the edges of the roster.
>The new contracts aren’t signed, but they’re basically done: Quickley likely starts north of $25 million a year here, Siakam’s going to be around at least $45 million in Indiana, and Anunoby’s going to get something near $35 million a year in New York.
RZAAMRIINF
It’s only “the best route” because we have no shot of getting better assets/players in free agency.
dchu
29 mil cap room + room MLE (max 3 year 25 mil)
or
brown (or who ever he is traded for) + trent (lets say 2 year $40ish) + non tax mle (4 year 55mil)
billychurch
Brown is a legendary bag stealer, ain’t no one out there taking on $23M for a mid player unless we’re taking a behemoth ass contract back
CazOnReddit
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: This is not the free agency class to look for bench upgrades. Maybe you’ll get one decent rotation player from the MLE – and by that I mean this time the signing won’t blow up in our face/be an egregious overpay – but right now retaining our team’s talent/making smart acquisitions via trades is the way to go.
Yes, that means re-sigining Trent and figuring out a deal for Bruce Brown even if the latter might be less than expected or involve taking on a reclamation project (Wiggins, Hunter, Collins, etc.)
vwb2022
It should be mentioned that free agency is terrible this year and there are no high-salary free agent targets (above MLE) that would make a big difference on this team. So a trade will be the best way to improve this roster.
Pretend_Highway_5360
Over the cap team bottom 10 lottery team with no draft pick 😵
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>That leaves Brown’s $23-million expiring contract in play, lets them see what the years and money on a new Trent deal will be, and leaves them with a nice chunk of money to tinker on the edges of the roster.
>The new contracts aren’t signed, but they’re basically done: Quickley likely starts north of $25 million a year here, Siakam’s going to be around at least $45 million in Indiana, and Anunoby’s going to get something near $35 million a year in New York.
It’s only “the best route” because we have no shot of getting better assets/players in free agency.
29 mil cap room + room MLE (max 3 year 25 mil)
or
brown (or who ever he is traded for) + trent (lets say 2 year $40ish) + non tax mle (4 year 55mil)
Brown is a legendary bag stealer, ain’t no one out there taking on $23M for a mid player unless we’re taking a behemoth ass contract back
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: This is not the free agency class to look for bench upgrades. Maybe you’ll get one decent rotation player from the MLE – and by that I mean this time the signing won’t blow up in our face/be an egregious overpay – but right now retaining our team’s talent/making smart acquisitions via trades is the way to go.
Yes, that means re-sigining Trent and figuring out a deal for Bruce Brown even if the latter might be less than expected or involve taking on a reclamation project (Wiggins, Hunter, Collins, etc.)
It should be mentioned that free agency is terrible this year and there are no high-salary free agent targets (above MLE) that would make a big difference on this team. So a trade will be the best way to improve this roster.
Over the cap team bottom 10 lottery team with no draft pick 😵
Well done Masai.