Do you give them a call if you're the FO?

[Saint Cy of JFC]

It has more to do with avoiding the mentality of "she ain't going out with me so I ain't even gonna ask." If you walk into something thinking someone out of your league won't give you the time of day because they're out of your league, you'll be right 10 times out of 10.

I mean, this isnt high school. I'm sure DL has already asked these questions.

 

[infection]

I mean, this isnt high school. I'm sure DL has already asked these questions.

High school is very definitely a microcosm of life. What people need to realize is that even at the highest levels, of anything, it’s all the same.

 

[JGolds]

I could see pg signing a one year deal with Utah with a player option. I think it makes sense. Pg value isn’t as high as it could be. And there arnt a lot of destination options tbh....


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[LoPo]

The problem is that some of the guys we have to waive or decline their option must be decided on before we can legally talk to free agent representation.

Thabo, Neto, and Exum must be decided on first. Thats a massive risk...



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[NUMBERICA]

So they lose Chris Paul then. They cant offer both the max sir

They can.

?

 

[Stoked]

We would be sick with Lebron.

But we'd have to dump a ton of dudes. Who? Sef, Udoh, JJJ, Burks...is that even enough?

Hell naw. For Lebron you go into Luxury. Let Burks go and bring home a chip. Gobert/Favors/Lebron/Mitchell/Rubio

Udoh/Crowder/Exum/Sefolosha/Jerebko/Ingles is your bench

 

[Shad]

They can.

?

The salary cap for next year is 108 mill. The Rockets have 78 mill tied up ALREADY WITHOUT PAYING Chris Paul, Ariza, Black, Luc, and Green. If Clint (and he will) decline his player option. Their cap goes to 75 mill. A max contract is 33+ mill a year. How can they offer CP3 + Clint the max without 4 spots to fill out the bench?

 

[NUMBERICA]

The salary cap for next year is 108 mill. The Rockets have 78 mill tied up ALREADY WITHOUT PAYING Chris Paul, Ariza, Black, Luc, and Green. If Clint (and he will) decline his player option. Their cap goes to 75 mill. A max contract is 33+ mill a year. How can they offer CP3 + Clint the max without 4 spots to fill out the bench?

-Larry Bird Exception
-Mid-Level Exception (although likely the taxpayer iteration of it)
-Minimum Salary Exception
-possibly the Bi-Annual Exception

There isn't a hard cap in the NBA. The cap is a soft cap. After the cap threshold is reached, you have to use exceptions to get above it, which are listed above. In the case of Paul and Capella, they would have Bird rights which allows the Rockets to spend up to the max per player to retain. After that, the league allows teams above the cap (and luxury tax) to sign players to minimum contracts.

There's also no guarantee each player gets or demands the max.

It is likely they keep both. I think the bigger uncertainty is if Ariza stays.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Hell naw. For Lebron you go into Luxury. Let Burks go and bring home a chip. Gobert/Favors/Lebron/Mitchell/Rubio

Udoh/Crowder/Exum/Sefolosha/Jerebko/Ingles is your bench

I think you would have to get rid of Crowder and Burks while waiving all of Udoh/Thabo/Jonas and renouncing Favors/Exum/Neto to reach Lebron's max.

So yeah, it seems pretty impossible. Utah would have to decimate it's roster just to make room for Lebron and probably have to trade a first round draft pick to get off Burks/Crowder without taking guaranteed salary back.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Favors/Gobert/Lebron is LOL-worthy. That ain't going to work in any scenario. Just having Gobert and a stretch 4 might be a little tough on spacing for Bron.

 

[NUMBERICA]

This is fantasy ****, but if you can land Lebron, you might consider rolling with Favors at C and trading Gobert.

That's the one scenario I can think of that you entertain the idea of dumping Gobert for Favors. This would also solve the cap issue lickety-split.

 

[infection]

If LeBron wants to come to Utah, then he’s already cleared some pretty significant hurdles that something like “can’t offer a full max” would be a much less significant hurdle.