Pierce, Kemba, Utah

[fishonjazz]

Kemba at $28 million per year < Brodgon at $17 million per year
Kemba at $28 million per year ?=? Brodgon at $24 million per year
Kemba at $44 million per year < S&Trade value for the Hornets
Kemba at $28 million per year for 5 years in his prime > Conley at $33 million per year for one year above 30+ age

I think that Kemba and Donovan would be like Lillard and McCollum are for the Blazers. Unstoppable. But is our defense good enough with Kemba? I am not sure. If he wasn't relied on to score as much would he divert more energy to the defense? Probably. But we like to sign highly efficient, two way players. Brogdon is a highly efficient two way player who would come for less and is entering his prime as well. Kemba would be fun but expensive. Brogdon would be more of a budgetary player and probably a better fit.

I think we would be awesome with both players. I think our defense would be fine with kemba.

Gun to my head with salaries taken into consideration (I'm putting brogdan at no more than 20 million) I take brogdon. But I do think kemba makes us slightly better than brogdan just that brogdan would be cheaper puts him slightly over kemba.

Really though, get whichever you can for whatever they cost. Beggars can't be choosers and the jazz are beggars in the free agency sweepstakes.

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[colton]

I figured the 3rd string part would ensure that people saw the joke, but clearly I was wrong.

Yes, it would be awesome to get Kemba. Yes we would not have Rubio or Conley, and that would still be awesome.
I would love to have Kemba on this team... assuming we keep DM, Gobert, Ingles, Favs... and if we can I'd want to still have Royce, Korver, Raul, Jae, Ekpe, Thabo, and Niang. The rest I'm sure we can mix and match.
I still like Rubio, but getting Kemba would cost someone in one way or another. We'd lose people.

Last time I checked there was essentially no way to sign a max player and also keep Favors. Sadly.

 

[infection]

Last time I checked there was essentially no way to sign a max player and also keep Favors. Sadly.

It seems a lot of cap rules have changed in the past ten years to the point that I’m pretty out of date. Previously, you couldn’t use the MLE if you were under the cap. Is that still in place? Meaning, if we cap out, are the rules any different and can we access any exceptions to sign Favors without bird rights?

 

[One Brow]

It seems a lot of cap rules have changed in the past ten years to the point that I’m pretty out of date. Previously, you couldn’t use the MLE if you were under the cap. Is that still in place? Meaning, if we cap out, are the rules any different and can we access any exceptions to sign Favors without bird rights?

I believe the rule is and has been that if you are more than a MLE under the cap at some point, you lose the MLE.

 

[infection]

What about the biannual exception?

 

[framer]

Last time I checked there was essentially no way to sign a max player and also keep Favors. Sadly.

We could sell Exum for a second rounder, then drop Favors and resign him at 4 year with the first year at 12.5 with max increases every year. (14.5 if we could somehow dump Bradley.) We lose Rubio, Thabo, and Udoh, which (besides Rubio) we may be able to bring back with exceptions. Korver is a tradeable contract as well.

 

[infection]

We could sell Exum for a second rounder, then drop Favors and resign him at 4 year with the first year at 12.5 with max increases every year. (14.5 if we could somehow dump Bradley.) We lose Rubio, Thabo, and Udoh, which (besides Rubio) we may be able to bring back with exceptions. Korver is a tradeable contract as well.

We’d have to be the one giving up the second rounder to move Exum. Maybe a couple of them.

 

[framer]

Kemba at $28 million per year < Brodgon at $17 million per year
Kemba at $28 million per year ?=? Brodgon at $24 million per year
Kemba at $44 million per year < S&Trade value for the Hornets
Kemba at $28 million per year for 5 years in his prime > Conley at $33 million per year for one year above 30+ age

I think that Kemba and Donovan would be like Lillard and McCollum are for the Blazers. Unstoppable. But is our defense good enough with Kemba? I am not sure. If he wasn't relied on to score as much would he divert more energy to the defense? Probably. But we like to sign highly efficient, two way players. Brogdon is a highly efficient two way player who would come for less and is entering his prime as well. Kemba would be fun but expensive. Brogdon would be more of a budgetary player and probably a better fit.

You aren't getting an RFA on a discount. You have to massively overpay if you want a team to give up rights to a promising young player. And, even then, 19 times out of 20, the team with the rights will still match.

 

[framer]

We’d have to be the one giving up the second rounder to move Exum. Maybe a couple of them.

We'd have to get something back. Exum at 10 million really isn't that big of an albatross. Someone would jump on that if all they had to give was a second.

 

[One Brow]

What about the biannual exception?

I believe you lose that as well.

 

[One Brow]

We’d have to be the one giving up the second rounder to move Exum. Maybe a couple of them.

If Exum had that little value, Memphis would not have insisted on getting him in the Conley trade.

 

[framer]

We would still have the "room" exception which is something like 4.5 million (which we could split up if we wanted.) If we found a way to trade for Conley before July, I think, we would not drop below the cap and all salary can options would be available. Just have to check when Rubio's contract ends. The Jazz are generally pretty cagy about the start dates of their contracts for this reason, if I remember correctly.