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Would anyone renounce Favors and Exum to absorb Harris?
In a second... one damn second
Would anyone renounce Favors and Exum to absorb Harris?
I don't know if we necessarily have to renounce Exum. If we renounce Favors, Thabo, Jerekbo, Udoh and Neto, we are at $20.5 million plus Exum's cap hold. If we re-sign Exum during the moratorium to $5.7 or less, we would have the space to just absorb the $14.8 Tobias Harris is owed next year. If we re-signed Exum to around $8 million, we could trade Bradley for Harris.
Im gonna be happy if we end up with one of these top tier players in free agency.
In this order..
Obviously, but not realistic.
1. Lebron
2. George
3. Aaron Gordon (probably less realistic than George)
More realistically..
4. Parker
5. Derrick Favors
6. Julius Randle
Not top tier, but happy about it.
7. Mario Hezonja
Not super happy about it, but would take it if all the others fall through.
8. Michael Beasley
9. Nemanja Bjelica
These are with the hope we and assumption we retain Exum too.
Randle isnt my first choice, but Id be really excited if thats who we end up with. We at least have to get him if all the other top tier players fall through. I dont want to pin my hopes on next year's free agency. Its too big of a gamble to pass this year if there is a real opportunity to get one of these guys.
This is what I mean by we have to at least give Randle a look. If our first choices dont come through then he is a pretty good consolation prize.
This math seems bad... are we assuming we already got rid of ABs salary?
I have a hard time seeing the LA Clippers trade Harris before the season even starts. And if they do, I'm not sure we can put together the best offer for him. I say we bring back Thabo & Jerebko, re-sign Exum, and then re-sign Favors to a 1 year deal for about $18-$20 million. Then all of those contracts will be expiring after this season and we can still have a really good team this year.I didn't account for O'Neale, but it's close - ($19.2 million without Favors, Exum and the non-guaranteeds - only keeping O'Neale) http://www.basketballinsiders.com/maximum-salary-cap-space-projections-for-2018-19/
Like I said before:
Renounce Thabo by July 1 (at $5.25, we should do this regardless)
Renounce Favors (actually, it would be better if he just agrees to sign elsewhere during the moratorium so it looks like we are left with a PF need so this all comes together)
Renounce Jerekbo, Neto, Udoh, Stockton
Re-sign Exum to $5 million
At that point, we have $14.2 million of cap space. Tobias Harris makes $14.8 million. If we traded Bradley and our 2019 1st for Harris, we could actually sign Exum for a little more than $6 million. But we have to sign Exum before we make the deal because Exum's hold is $15 million but his contract would only be $5 or $6 under these circumstances.
PG Rubio, Exum
SG Donovan, Grayson, Burks
SF Ingles, O'Neale
PF Harris, Crowder
C Gobert
The rest of the roster would be filled by minimum type contracts, MLE and BAE. We would need to do a good job finding a couple bigs like Jerekbo and Udoh.
But overall, this whole thinking is unrealistic (whoever asked the question earlier about just renouncing everybody and adding Harris). I don't think the Clippers would give up Harris for so little. If they really look to trade Harris, I think they want to attach a bad contract or get something bigger.
Supposedly Thad Young opted out... didn't see it, but Nate Duncan mentioned it. A little old, but if he misses out on the big money I'd be interested.
Exum is getting more than $5m, it's just silly to put that number in calculations.
Thabo is not going to be the player he was; he's old, he's coming back from a serious injury. There's a bigger chance we'll see a JJ-like decline in his play.
If Utah re-signs Favors, I doubt he'd accept a 1yr deal. So add Favors, Exum and any other decent FA and the Jazz likely are not players in free agency in 2019. But maybe that's an opportunity. Make a great trade at the deadline from a team pinning their hopes on a big name FA in the summer and wanting to clear cap room.
Everything should be a 1 year deal at that position.
Im gonna be happy if we end up with one of these top tier players in free agency.
In this order..
Obviously, but not realistic.
1. Lebron
2. George
3. Aaron Gordon (probably less realistic than George)
More realistically..
4. Parker
5. Derrick Favors
6. Julius Randle
Not top tier, but happy about it.
7. Mario Hezonja
Not super happy about it, but would take it if all the others fall through.
8. Michael Beasley
9. Nemanja Bjelica
These are with the hope we and assumption we retain Exum too.
Randle isnt my first choice, but Id be really excited if thats who we end up with. We at least have to get him if all the other top tier players fall through. I dont want to pin my hopes on next year's free agency. Its too big of a gamble to pass this year if there is a real opportunity to get one of these guys.
This is what I mean by we have to at least give Randle a look. If our first choices dont come through then he is a pretty good consolation prize.