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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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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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Bodhi said:
Hell, lets ask for Cade too.....................


(this place sometimes)
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If Ausar is Cade in the eyes of DET, you'd imagine he would've gotten more than 22min a night. Just look at how quickly & cheapily Hornets got rid of Mark Williams.
 
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.
 
Ideally, Nurkic+Collins/Lauri would be gone and we sign a prospect C like Jackson/Bassey or give Oscar some time.
 
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.
 
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