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2025 Free Agency Thread

Saint Cy of JFC said:
Walkers cap hold is super small. There's no reason to extend him now unless he's willing to take a pretty safe/team friendly deal.

He needs to take another step forward this year to prove he's worth top 10 type of center money.
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I’m not entirely up on the cap situation for next year. Assuming the Jazz don’t take on $26 million of bad salary for trading John Collins, does anyone know how much space the Jazz have next year if they
A.) keep Lauri
B.) let all of their expiring guys (Nurkic, Collins, Mykhailiuk, Martin, etc) walk
C.) don’t extend Kessler, but use his low c cap hold to create space before extending him

Would the Jazz have room to go add a star player into their cap space? (via either free agency or trade)
 
Coach Ellis said:
I’m not entirely up on the cap situation for next year. Assuming the Jazz don’t take on $26 million of bad salary for trading John Collins, does anyone know how much space the Jazz have next year if they
A.) keep Lauri
B.) let all of their expiring guys (Nurkic, Collins, Mykhailiuk, Martin, etc) walk
C.) don’t extend Kessler, but use his low c cap hold to create space before extending him

Would the Jazz have room to go add a star player into their cap space? (via either free agency or trade)
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Prob not what you’re after since it’s based off of “I remember reading”, but I’m an Athletic subscriber and a few weeks back they did an off season guide for each team, if I remember right, and it said the Jazz could create up to $70m in space for 2026.
 
KqWIN said:
When I search John Collins on twitter, all I see are Pistons fans wanting to trade for him. Is it possible? Maybe if he’s looped into the Shroeder sign and trade?
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Collins for Ausar and Stewart. We get an exciting young player who is being underappreciated by his current HC(minutes down by 3min a game from his rookie season with his previous coach, but had better stats across the board in less minutes. Meaning he's getting better and more efficient.) Detroit gets to offload stew, who's getting paid way too much for averaging 6+5 in less than 20min of play. Collins will be a major upgrade.

Makes sense for both parties. Maybe throw in a pick or two to get it done. Not sure Austin has the guts to pull the trigger now though, instead of waiting for Collins contract to expire and losing him for nothing.
 
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jom2003 said:
Collins for Ausar and Stewart. We get an exciting young player who is being underappreciated by his current HC(minutes down by 3min a game from his rookie season with his previous coach, but had better stats across the board in less minutes. Meaning he's getting better and more efficient.) Detroit gets to offload stew, who's getting paid way too much for averaging 6+5 in less than 20min of play. Collins will be a major upgrade.

Makes sense for both parties. Maybe throw in a pick or two to get it done. Not sure Austin has the guts to pull the trigger now though, instead of waiting for Collins contract to expire and losing him for nothing.
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Hell, lets ask for Cade too.....................


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Saint Cy of JFC said:
Walkers cap hold is super small. There's no reason to extend him now unless he's willing to take a pretty safe/team friendly deal.

He needs to take another step forward this year to prove he's worth top 10 type of center money.
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25M a year or maybe slightly frontloaded really doesn't change our world cap wise over the 15M caphold he has. Might matter more for a team like the Lakers with real cap space power. It isn't a reason for us to hold off locking up a guy imo. He balls out and the Wiz or Nets throw out 40M because they have it... you look pretty dumb.
 
If Det does it its like Harris and a second... lol at Ausar or anything of real long term value.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
25M a year or maybe slightly frontloaded really doesn't change our world cap wise over the 15M caphold he has. Might matter more for a team like the Lakers with real cap space power. It isn't a reason for us to hold off locking up a guy imo. He balls out and the Wiz or Nets throw out 40M because they have it... you look pretty dumb.
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like I said, if he's willing to take the lower contract up front, then do it. Im OK with 25 million a year. Anything north of that and I would want him to prove it another year.

If someone wants to pay him 40 a year, that's on them.
 
jom2003 said:
Collins for Ausar and Stewart. We get an exciting young player who is being underappreciated by his current HC(minutes down by 3min a game from his rookie season with his previous coach, but had better stats across the board in less minutes. Meaning he's getting better and more efficient.) Detroit gets to offload stew, who's getting paid way too much for averaging 6+5 in less than 20min of play. Collins will be a major upgrade.

Makes sense for both parties. Maybe throw in a pick or two to get it done. Not sure Austin has the guts to pull the trigger now though, instead of waiting for Collins contract to expire and losing him for nothing.
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lmfao jom gonna jom
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
like I said, if he's willing to take the lower contract up front, then do it. Im OK with 25 million a year. Anything north of that and I would want him to prove it another year.

If someone wants to pay him 40 a year, that's on them.
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Anything from 25-30M AAV just get it done imo... but its not a hard line. I doubt he wants a lot more than that based on the noise around it.

If someone comes in with a big offer and you could have locked him down at 30 or traded him for everything the Lakers are offering... Its a tremendous blow to either match at that rate or watch him walk for nothing.

I just thing the options are... extend him... or trade him. That's it.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
If Det does it its like Harris and a second... lol at Ausar or anything of real long term value.
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What's even the point then? I'd rather just keep Collins as he has an actual path towards having value at the deadline (or maybe keeping him long-term and trading Lauri). You would still have the same issues of having to play a vet on an expiring contract or risk his ire with Harris.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
What's even the point then? I'd rather just keep Collins as he has an actual path towards having value at the deadline (or maybe keeping him long-term and trading Lauri). You would still have the same issues of having to play a vet on an expiring contract or risk his ire with Harris.
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I agree. I wasn't pitching the idea.

I think its a meh Collins for Rozier and some seconds or nothing at this point.
 
If we don’t consider Collins and Nurkic, we have 10 guys who need minutes. Even if just one of them is getting minutes it means that one of our young guys likely isn’t playing. We have too many guys.
 
Bodhi said:
Collins has to go. I'd attach another 2nd like Sexton if I had to. Him, Lauri and Kessler as your front court is dumb AF for this team and what we need to do next year.
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Right. We're in the same boat as last year. Tanking is our best option again. The 2026 draft is loaded. We don’t want to risk it. So yeah, that’s why Collins needs to be moved. I'm pretty sure he’d prefer it as well.
 
KqWIN said:
So the Hornets keep signing guards, and their only centers are Diabte and Kalk. They are also short on roster spots. They trying to win? Trying to tank? Why do they have all these guards?


View: https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/1940478266630091224
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You got me.. Maybe Din is their Svi type bench vet as he looked pretty washed in Dallas. They resigned Mann to a 2 year guaranteed (plus 1 year team option) but he's coming off a fairly serious disk injury in his back. Nick Smith Jr will certainly be cut now. I don't watch many CLT games but it seems they always need to play G League guys every year after Lamelo gets injured so guess they won't have to do that this season.

I'd assume they will eventually use some of those contracts to make a trade for a legitimate center.
 
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