Could the Pelicans stretch and waive Dejounte Murray like the Bucks did with Damian Lillard?

Could the Pelicans stretch and waive Dejounte Murray like the Bucks did with Damian Lillard?

In a stunning move, the Milwaukee Bucks waved Damen Lillard. So, could the Pelicans do the same for Deontay Murray? I’ll tell you if it could help him make a bigger move this off season. It’s the Wednesday episode of Locked On Pelicans. Let’s go. You are Locked On Pelicans, your daily New Orleans Pelicans podcast, part of the Locked On Network. your team every day. Welcome to another edition of Locked On Pelicans, the daily podcast covering your favorite team, the New Orleans Pelicans at NBA, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day, available wherever you get your podcast and available on YouTube. I’m your host, Pelicans Insider, credential member of the media, JakeMadison, Nola Jake on Twitter, here with y’all on this Wednesday. And after the Bucks make just stunning moves on Tuesday, truthfully, some of the more shocking things I think we’ve all seen in the NBA in a while. Could the Pelicans kind of do the same thing? Could they stretch and wave Deonte Murray? What is the stretch and wave provision? I’ll explain all of that and if it would help the Pelicans or not? Then I want to get into the preseason schedule being released. I’m actually not a fan of this at all and I’ll tell you why. And then we got some updates on James Barga, the New York Knicks, and I want to get into just the coaching staff briefly in general in today’s episode of Locked On Pelicans. So, of course, thank you for making Locked On Pelicans your first listen today and every day. We are here Monday through Friday, the number one Pelicans podcast, covering everything you want to know about this Pelicans team. So, please subscribe wherever you get your podcast and join over 11,000 Pelicans fans on YouTube as well. And become an everyday dare. That means you listen Monday through Friday to the Locked On Pelicans podcast. You can also find the Locked On Pelicans podcast on the GF Coast Sports and Entertainment Network. The same place that you watch your Pelicans games. 10:30 a.m. every single weekday right after locked on Saints. Right before locked on LSU and locked on SEC, we got a whole locked on block there, which is really cool to see. So, let’s get into this one because truthfully, Tuesday was one of the more like stunning days I think we’ve seen in the NBA in a long time because I was not expecting Damen Lillard to get stretched and waved by the Milwaukee Bucks, allowing them to more or less like steal Miles Turner from the Indiana Pacers. And and I’ll touch on how this impacts the Pelicans from the Indiana Pacers trade and then the Bucks picks and all that stuff in a second here, but I want to get into this. Could the Pelicans do a similar thing to Dejonte Murray and allow them to then make a big move this off season that continues Joe Jumar’s overhaul of the roster? The answer is yes, but no. You could stretch and wave Deontay Murray. He’s going to miss half the year. We probably won’t see him till January, February. But what is the stretch and wave provision anyway? So most NBA contracts are just fully guaranteed. If you cut somebody from your team that has a fully guaranteed deal, their money’s you still have to pay them and their money counts against the salary cap. This is not like I really don’t actually know how it works that much in the NFL. You’d have to go to Lockdown Saints, part of the Lockdown podcast network, your team every day. If you know, you want to know more on that, but you could, you know, I believe you can just cut guys and cool, they’re gone. You you’re done for the most part there. Doesn’t work like that in the NBA. If you sign that contract, you’re going to get every dollar of it for the most part. And then if you wave a guy, you still got to pay him. Still counts against the salary cap. So it often doesn’t help you. But the stretch and wave provision does help you in some capacity. Basically, what you’re allowed to do is take the remaining years a player has, and let’s use an example. We we’ll use Deonte Murray’s in a second here. You take the remaining years in guaranteed money. You double the years plus one. So, Deonte Murray is owed $96.757 million left on his contract over three years. So, what you do is you double the years plus one. So, that’s seven years. So, you know, $96 million is what a cap hit of about 30, what is that? 32 a year, let’s say, average annual value there. Instead of dividing it by three, you divide it by seven. That gets you 13.8. So, now all of a sudden, the salary cap hit goes from 30 whatever we just said 30.2 to 13.8 that can free up a big difference at 17.7 million to the Pelicans this year. So it basically allows you to literally stretch that contract over a larger period of time. There’s some limitations on it, but that wouldn’t happen or impact the Pelicans here whatsoever. So given that Murray’s not going to play for a chunk of the year, and when he comes back, look, he’s going to be on a minutes restriction, too. So, it’s not like he’s going to have an outsized impact on the team next year. You know, if you could clear up $17.7 million in some capacity this year, that sounds great, right? You know, all of a sudden with the 3 whatever they have left, that gets you around $20 million from the luxury tax. Now, you may think they could go and have signed someone like Santiama, who I loved and would have loved on this team, who resigned with the Memphis Grizzlies. You know, could they have made a run at the still available Jonathan Kaminga if that’s the case? Not really. Because of how the salary cap works, you wouldn’t have had $20 million to spend. The Pelicans still would have been operating as an overthe cap team. I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but I think there’s something like $29 million over the cap. $27 million over the cap. So, even if you get rid of Jonte Murray’s hit or or, you know, reduce it by 17.7, it doesn’t get you cap space to do a whole lot. And so since they’re operating as an over-the-cap team, they’re limited to the mid-level exception, the byianual exception, or the traded player exceptions that they have. And we discussed a lot of those yesterday. Functionally, functionally, nothing would have really changed for the Pelicans if you wave and stretch Deonte Murray. Even if you reverse the Kavon Looney signing, which we like, and added his $8 million at some point, whatever, his first year back to it, it it doesn’t fundamentally change how the Pelicans would have operated because they are operating as an over-thecap team. So, they really didn’t wouldn’t have cleared cap space by doing it. Where it would have helped them is, you know, maybe you would have spent that whole 14.1 million on a Brook Lopez and given him all of that over two years. That’s more than he got to go to the Los Angeles Clippers, I think, is where he ended up. Could that have been the smart move for the Pelicans to do maybe, you know, if you’re functionally working with the luxury tax threshold as their cap and not the first apron where they are hardcapped and literally can’t go above. Yeah, they could have done a few things, but Brook Lopez probably wasn’t going to come here anyway. Maybe he would have for the money, but I think he wanted to go to a better chance of winning and have, you know, a better opportunity for a deep postseason run. So I don’t know if it would have fundamentally changed much. Where it might actively change things is you could still then sign Kavon Looney and you could use that Brandon Ingram traded player exception or another trading or you know the Kelly Lolin traded player exception that you have to absorb someone’s contract and bring in a guy or two in that capacity that they won’t do right now. Yeah, you could absorb someone for $12 million in that Brandon Ingram traded player exception. But if you only have $3.7 million to the luxury tax, that’s the number that you’re going to be looking at. But if you had $20 million to the luxury tax, even with the Cavon Looney signing, that kind of changes it. You could then add a $12 something million player to this team in a way that they just won’t do that right now. So on one end, like no, it doesn’t really change much. It doesn’t change the tools available to them is what I think I’m trying to say, but it does mean you could have maybe used one a little bit more so than they probably use right now. So, it would it would change things, but I think at this point it would probably be better to just keep Deonte Murray, right? You’re then adding $13.8 million for to the books for seven years, which doesn’t seem smart for this team. That’s gonna mean, you know, in two, three seasons when maybe they’re competitive with Jeremiah Fears and Dererick Queen and you want to get into the luxury tax. Well, you’re kind of already in it because you have $13.8 million on your books for someone that’s not even here anymore. That doesn’t seem like a great thing, right? The Bucks doing this eventually. I mean, they’re going to just be a wasteland. Now, this would be the ultimate aggressive move from Joe Dumars. But the better thing is probably just to keep Deonte Murray, rehab his value this year, and then just figure it out next season, you know, if you want to move on from him if but again, I think Joe Dumar is a guy that would like Deontay Murray, and I think he can be a valuable veteran presence. So, coming up next, let’s quickly talk about the state of the Pacers. Does that make us review that trade the Pelicans made worse in hindsight? You know, whatever. 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So, quickly before we get into the preseason schedule, you know, the Pelicans traded next year’s Indiana pick back to them for the 23rd pick in this year’s draft. Even with the Hallebertton injury, I thought the Pacers would be pretty good next year. They they were shockingly good. If you go watch them more, if you go into the data behind them, they were an elite team come January of this past year. You know, even without Hallebertton, Seakum and Turner, Miles Turner would take you pretty far. But now all of a sudden they lose Miles Turner and they’re they did that because ownership got cheap and didn’t want to pay the luxury tax to keep him. You know, scared money don’t make money, right? All of a sudden that kind of changes the outlook of the Indiana Pacers next year in a way that look, we never could have predicted. Yeah, they made that trade before the Hallebertton injury, before the finals were over, even with Hallebertton having a calf injury, but a calf injury doesn’t always doesn’t always lead to an ACL tear or anything like that, an Achilles tear. So, look, you you can’t look at this in hindsight and be like, “That was so dumb.” You don’t expect a guy to have a catastrophic injury, right? There’s only been like six of those injuries this whole season. And if you’re banking on that happening and making that pick good, you’re going to be disappointed far far more often than not. And we don’t want to root for injuries in the first place. You know, I don’t think they knew that they were going to let Miles Turner go and not, you know, extend him at the number that he wanted until probably two or three days ago. This was not something that was like thought of during the finals or even in the immediate aftermath of that Hallebertton injury. And look, the Pacers were trading their first round pick. they were trading their first round pick. That would not have been there on draft day. I I can tell you that that offer wasn’t going to be there on draft day to do it. So, the Pelicans jumped at an opportunity that they saw to go and get their guy. Looking back on it, yeah, like this kind of changes the optics of it, but this is not something that Joe Dumar’s and company could have predicted at all, nor planned around even. And so, I’m I’m not really going to fault them when it comes to this in any capacity. You know what makes it kind of interesting is the trade up for Derek Queen now looks like a little bit better because what made that so bad for a lot of people was it’s not just one pick, you know, one chance at getting a top pick. It was two. The Pelicans were, you know, a lot of people are expecting to be bad, though the Pelicans are betting on themselves being good, but also what could happen to the Milwaukee Bucks. And all of a sudden now the Bucks aren’t going to be bad. Look, they’re not like a title contender in my opinion, but I don’t think that they’re going to be like a truly atrocious top five team. So, all of a sudden now that pick doesn’t have two chances at being top five. It maybe has one in the Pelicans depending on where you kind of fall on what their future this year is going to look like. Kind of makes everything look a little bit better in a sense, but also what’s done is done and there’s no point in hindsighting this to death anymore. I think you know they they like Derek Queen. they’re going to go for him. And I’ve been less down on that move than I think a lot of other people have. So, let’s switch gears. I want to get into preseason because the Pelicans preseason schedule has been released. And I’m going to be honest, I kind of hate this. So, the Pelicans are opening their pre-season schedule in Melbourne, Australia, where they will play two preseason games against the National Basketball League NBL teams, Melbourne United and Southeast Melbourne, Phoenix on Friday, October 3rd, and Sunday, October 5th at the Rod Lever Arena in Melbourne Park. With the NBL serving as the official promoter and organizer of the NBA and NBL Melbourne series, the Pelicans then return to Birmingham, Alabama in preseason to take on the Houston Rockets at Legacy Arena on Tuesday, October 14th. That’s where the Birmingham squadron play. We don’t need to get into that arena or anything. And then they conclude preseason at Orlando on Thursday, October 16th. So that is October 3rd versus Melbourne United in Melbourne. October 4th, the next day, Saturday versus Southeast Melbourne Phoenix, the Rod Lab Arena, Melbourne U, uh, Melbourne, Australia. Then at home in Birmingham against the Houston Rockets than on the road at the Orlando Magic. There’s not one home game in New Orleans. The Pelton don’t tend to have a lot of preseason games in New Orleans anyway. They usually have one. They just rather play them elsewhere, not deal with it. Sure, whatever. It doesn’t really matter, though. It’s nice to have like a cheap game for fans to go to, in my opinion. But here’s what I don’t like about this. You know, the Pelicans have not done the best job of taking preseason seriously. In particular, Zion Williamson hasn’t done the best job of taking preseason seriously. Played in one preseason game last year in the first game, looked good, and then didn’t play again when probably should have, right? We’ve seen the conditioning issues and things like that. if he’s either holding himself out or the team’s holding him out, that seems seriously misguided to me. So to play two nonNBA teams, right? Look, I get the idea of expand the league, expand horizons, make it more global, blah blah blah blah blah. Look, getting more fans in Australia, Lyall, I’m super happy for you that you can go and see and play, and I’m super happy for all the people in Australia, in that area to go see the Pelicans play. But playing against two NBL teams does not strike me as a way for this team to get ready for the regular season. Now, this was done before Joe Dumar’s really made remade the roster and everything like that. We had heard rumors about this for a couple months now, but if you want to be ready to go for the start of the season, playing two NBL teams isn’t it, right? And playing two real preseason games where we’re probably going to see Zion for a half of one of them and that’s it doesn’t strike me as the best way to go about this. You need to have a tougher preseason schedule. Teams make their own preseason schedules. By the way, look, this is a team that is going to be very unproven, that is in massive win now mode. We’ll get to doing the two timeline show maybe tomorrow to to have kind of like a lacadasical preseason schedule. Like, look, this is maybe nitpicking it. I will admit that and own up to that here a little bit, but I don’t love it. Like, I don’t love it. go out, play really hard in preseason, and kind of show people, oh wow, this team is ready to go for the regular season and isn’t throwing away a top five pick next year. That’s kind of what they need to be doing here. I don’t know if this schedule’s kind of saying that, right? Does playing two NBL teams, then two NBA teams where you’re not going to play all your guys probably mean that you’re going to be like ready to go? We’ve seen the Pelicans just not be ready on opening night so many years, not getting off to big starts. How many years do they start? One in 12. Ow in whatever, right? Be ready for the start of the regular season. Is this going to do it? I I’m saying this and as I’m and I’m saying it kind of forcefully and I it sounds a little hot takey even to me as I’m doing this. But I but I do think there’s some merit to it, right? Like this is a team that needs to be ready to go because you can’t get in a hole early. They can’t they can’t afford to do that and then spend the rest of the season trying to climb out of it like they often do. This is a team that needs to just hit the ground running from game one. You only hit the ground running from game one if you’re getting it done in training camp and preeason. The Pelg’s best player, Zion Williamson, has not done that. Let’s not make it easier for him to not do that kind of stuff, right? A small ramp up against an NBL team isn’t it. He needs to be going against NBA players to keep him ready to go, not essentially playing JV teams, right? And look, the NBL is not a bad league. I agree with that. It’s not a knock on them, but they’re not NBA an NBA team, and that’s what the Pelicans should be playing. And look, do it at home. Get fans excited to see the young rookies. You have two guys that are the future of the team and Jeremiah Fierce and Derek Queen. You know, beyond the, you know, we’ll see if the Pelgans do the open practice and everything this year, but beyond that, like, show those guys off to fans at home. Get them excited about those guys. Are those guys going to play a ton in the regular season? if not play him a ton in preeason, particularly at home games so fans can see him. That type of stuff does matter, I think. And the Pelicans, it feels like they’re missing a bit of an opportunity when it comes to it. Cool that they’re, you know, maybe grabbing a lot of Australian fans. I love that. That’s only a good thing for the team. And I love the global reach, but I also want to win games next year. And that’s the priority that I see here. And are the Pelgens doing it? Am I Am I a little off base? Is this too hot takey? Let me know in the comments down below. So coming up next, let’s talk about the coaching step. James Burggo in particular because we got an interesting update there. Let’s talk about that. That’s coming up here next in today’s episode of Locked On Pelicans. And thank you for making Locked on Pelicans your first listen today and every day. We are here Monday through Friday, the number one Pelicans podcast covering everything you want to know about this Pelicans team. So, please subscribe wherever you get your podcast and join over 11,000 Pelicans fans on YouTube as well and become an everydayer. That means you listen Monday through Friday to Locked on Pelicans podcast. Please subscribe wherever you get your podcast on YouTube as well and join us on the GF Coast Sports and Entertainment Network. That gets it’s really fun to say that. I won’t lie. It’s cool to see it on TV. 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They are saying that James Burggo is still in the running for the New York Knicks job. He recently interviewed for that. But the Knicks seem to be zeroing in on former Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown. He’s got he’s there in New York. He’s not leaving New York. He seems like he’s in pole position to get that job. So, does that mean Barago’s coming back to New Orleans? Not so fast. Now, they’re saying that Berago could also join the New York Knicks as the lead assistant to Mike Brown. Mike Brown is a defensive guy, a defensiveminded head coach. You bring in the offensive guy and James Bergo, that seems to make a lot of sense here. Now, I think losing Berago this year would be a massive blow to the Pelicans for a variety of reasons. One, Willie Green doesn’t have a contract next year. If it goes off to a bad start, does he make it through the season? Do they fire him? I don’t know. But you want to have the guy ready to go to elevate, and that would be James Burggo. And then give him that interim tag, let him run the team, and see what happens. Is that the guy that should be the lead man on the bench or should it be Willie Green? You don’t know. But if you fire Willie Green, you at least have like the option to elevate Bergo and not go with someone more unproven and that could tank your season. We’ve seen some interim coaches turn things around in a very positive way. You particularly saw it with the Denver Nuggets bringing in David Adelman and look at their playoff run. That was very unexpected from them. That interim bump can really help you. Even the Kings had an interim bump actually, which ironically after firing Mike Brown. So I’ I’d want to keep Burggo for that reason alone, having an experienced guy. The other thing is look, if he’s the offensive guy, you’re going to need a real creative offense this year with the pieces that they have and sometimes the lack of shooting that they have and they’re lacking shooting right now. You need a very creative offensive mind to be able to make that work. You can make it work without extreme shooting. You need some certainly, but you can get it done. Barago could be the guy that kind of does all of that for you. You’re at least going to need to maybe shake up the coaching staff here in a sense. Look, Joe Dummars was brought in. Fletcher ML says like an agent of change, right? You know, if he’s an agent of change, then you need to do that a little bit. And so, if that’s going to be the case, you got to change the coaching staff, too. They’ve changed the roster massively. They’ve changed the front office massively, right? The coaching staff is the one thing that’s like still intact as of now. There might need to be some changes coming with that. And I think you’ll see those seats start to shuffle around a little bit more in the near future. You’re just starting to see the assistant coaching carousel starting to go round and round. you know, once the Knicks make their hire for head coach, because this has gone on way too long to not have a head coach, that’s when you’ll see that start to go round and round even more, and that’s when I think the Pelicans need to maybe shake some things up, right? I don’t think they’re replacing head coach Willie Green. It’d be a little late in the cycle to do that unless you’re just going to elevate James Burggo to that job, but you probably want to mix up the assistance in some capacity. Look, keeping Bergo might be smart. I’m a big fan of Jiren Collins who’s done a really great job with their defense, more or less as their defensive coordinator. He’s interviewed for some head coaching jobs, too, recently. Uh, most recently with the Detroit Pistons. So, try and keep your lead guys, but maybe do you change things a little bit further down the bench? That could be a smart move just to get some fresh voices in. You often see, you know, that happen where a new lead basketball decision maker comes in and kind of mandates some changes to the coaching bench more to get like their guys on the coaching staff bench. Honestly, sometimes as a little bit of like a plant, a guy that’s like almost like a mole that will report up what’s kind of being said with the coaches and stuff like that. It’s the weird reality of the NBA how it comes to that. So, that’s something I think could help the Pelicans. If you’re going to change things up, the coaching staff probably needs to be changed up in some capacity in some capacity as well. It might start with James Burggo leaving. I have no idea who you would target or anything like that for assistant coaches. We’ll start to hear the names should that become a thing. The Pelicans had some turnover with that a little bit during the season as guys have been kind of doing that more often to go make jumps to colleges and stuff like that. So, we’ll see if there end up being some changes there because it feels like that could be a thing. But, I’d advocate very much for keeping Bergo and finally letting him run the offense and having more control over that than he’s had in the past, which we’ve documented well here on the Locked On Pelicans podcast. So, that’s going to do it for this edition of Locked On Pelicans. We’ll we’ll eventually get to just news keeps coming up and show ideas keep coming up of the two timelines. Are the Pelicans doing two timelines? Does two timelines ever work? I have one example of it working and other examples of it not working. More often than not, it doesn’t work and that’s concerning. So, we’ll talk more about that. As always, I’m your host JakeMadison, Nola Jake on Twitter. 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New Orleans Pelicans face crucial decisions as NBA landscape shifts. Will roster moves and preseason plans impact their playoff hopes?

Jake Madison analyzes potential cap space from stretching and waiving Dejounte Murray like the Bucks did with Damian Lillard, the ripple effects of recent trades, and a controversial preseason schedule. He examines James Borrego’s potential departure and its implications for the coaching staff. The discussion covers Zion Williamson’s preparation, Willie Green’s strategies, and how these factors could shape the Pelicans’ upcoming season.

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