So lets take a look at our cap situation:
Rudy Gobert ($21,224,719)
Derrick Favors ($12,000,000)
Alec Burks ($10,845,506)
Joe Johnson ($10,505,000)
Dante Exum ($4,992,385)
Rodney Hood ($2,386,864)
Joel Bolomboy ($1,312,611)
Donovan Mitchell ($1,835,200)
Ricky Rubio ($14,100,000)
Total: $79,202,285
Cap Holds:
Joe Inlges ($4,085,000)
Gordon Hayward ($24,109,710)
Total with cap holds:
$107,396,995
Non Guaranteed:
Boris Diaw ($7,500,000)1
Raul Neto ($1,471,382)
Total: $8,971,382
Am I missing anything? I think that is what we are looking at if want to be at our lowest that is assuming we let those non guaranteed go. We probably keep Neto but if we need the room this is where we can be right?
So that is 8.4m over the cap. If we could somehow dump Favors and Burks that is almost 23M which would put us at 14 million in cap space. Could we get anyone for that much decent? Could we clear more room if we need to? How about clearing JJ to get us 24m in space. Could that net us anyone worth out time to strip our depth a bit? I dont see anyway to get room for a Max contract.
Hmm my guess is we dont really have cap space in free agency to make much happen besides MLE whch is 8 million. But we still have picks, Hood, Favors, Burks, Diaw(maybe our best asset) to make a decent trade. I guess we have Exum and Mitchell but only if its a big name since the FO seems to be very excited about both.
I am still unsure of the sign and trade rules so I am not sure about that option for FAs. But we could sign and trade JJ, Favors and Burks which is 33 million, that could net us someone like Griffin if sign and trades work when you are over the cap.
