Does Lauri Get Traded?

[fishonjazz]

Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant.

It happens all the time. I’m pretty sure San Antonio has enough cap space to take into the season to R&E him if they wanted to.

Right but if only one team can do that then it makes Lauri less valuable right?

Like it's better to have multiple bidders driving up the price rather than just one bidder I think.

So he is less likely to be traded because for most teams they would risk it being a 1 year rental


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[fishonjazz]

The Spurs are one of the only teams that could have enough cap space to take into the season to R&E Lauri.

Yep and because of that I would say he is less likely to be traded right now

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[NUMBERICA]

That isn’t true. They could be above but still have 14.1M to use on Lauri. Which is enough to get him close to a 30% max.

It really isn’t, though. An extra ~$14 million gets him to ~$32 million and the 30% max is ~$42 million. Add in the decreased base salary to the successive years and that’s a $40 million shortfall on the contract.

 

[TheStormofWar]

All this F5 button whacking, I'll be doing tonight will be for nothing. I know it. I'm never ,"there" when something big happens.

Keep it up and you'll go blind, ya know.

 

[Elizah Huge]

It really isn’t, though. An extra ~$14 million gets him to ~$32 million and the 30% max is ~$42 million. Add in the decreased base salary to the successive years and that’s a $40 million shortfall on the contract.

Brother, the extra 14M is just for this year. The max extension is the extra years based off of this years salary.

 

[fishonjazz]

Now we’re back to where I thought we were: Given that the Jazz probably won’t get the package needed to pry him away largely due to his contract status, he’s probably just getting the R&E and heading into the season shopping him for a trade deadline move.

If there really was a package of Dort and at least 3 firsts at the deadline… prrrobably should’ve just taken it.

I agree with your first paragraph.

I disagree with your second one. **** dort and 3 firsts ain't enough especially if they OKC picks.

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[NUMBERICA]

Brother, the extra 14M is just for this year. The max extension is the extra years based off of this years salary.

I hope so, but the renegotiation piece seems like it changes the nature of the thing. In either case, Lauri still loses at least $10 million.

 

[YoungJefe]

Bye bye Lauri, thank you for nothing

 

[NUMBERICA]

I agree with your first paragraph.

I disagree with your second one. **** dort and 3 firsts ain't enough especially if they OKC picks.

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That’s why I said “prrrobably”: we don’t know what the picks were. I’m choosing to believe they weren’t garbage because that’s an unserious offer and I don’t think Presti is unserious.

However, I am also calculating the tank/2025 Jazz pick value difference with having Lauri vs not.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Bye bye Lauri, thank you for nothing

Shut the **** up

 

[HermanG]

Right but if only one team can do that then it makes Lauri less valuable right?

Like it's better to have multiple bidders driving up the price rather than just one bidder I think.

So he is less likely to be traded because for most teams they would risk it being a 1 year rental


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I was pretty confident he wont get traded with this contract which is what I have reiterated many times over the past few weeks.

However NBA teams know these rules, and they know we wont sell him cheap, and Windy still said what he said. He also reiterated that the price wont be cheap if it happens.

 

[NUMBERICA]

So the Thunder just spent $19 million to re-sign Isaiah Joe and Aaron Wiggins unnecessarily early. They could’ve positioned themselves to get a penny above the salary floor WITH Hartenstein to keep the R&E possibility alive and bid on Lauri but just shrugged it off. But hey, when you have the opportunity to lock up totally mid players at the expense of bringing in the piece that might put you over the top, you have to do it.

I get the feeling he and Ainge don’t get along.