NAOS
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Ummm, gais?
Gobert extension incoming.
cap fail
Ummm, gais?
Gobert extension incoming.
Tibor was never a prospect. Even if his Europe numbers translated to the NBA they'd be atrocious. The only way we say we have a hindsight advantage is if we drank the Tibor KoolAid (of which there really wasn't all that much).
Here are my calculations:
After this deal (and assuming Marshall gets waived before his guarantee date) it would seem we are at 79M guaranteed. I assume Chris Johnson(1m unguaranteed) gets waived and Withey(1m unguaranteed) stays. So we are back at 80M. This gives us about 14M.
Favors' max is at about 21.5M for the first year. So we can give him extra 10.5, and about 3.5 are left for Hill. I'm not sure that would work, he's not signing long term contract for a 3.5M bump this year(I think he would need more). What exceptions do we have and can we use them for players already on contract? We have the room (MLE) exception at about 2.8M. Can it be used on Ingles+Bolomboy 's contracts? The amount is about the same as their salaries combined(2.75M>). I'm not CBA expert so if somebody knows, please elucidate us.
Either way - to me it seems like if they wanted to re-do Favors' contract they could have done it without giving up assets in order to dump Pleiss. This leads me to believe that they are trying to redo BOTH Favors and Hill.
He was picked with a very high second round pick... so by the logic that two teams offered Kanter a deal he was a prospect at one time.
That's what I would have done, correct. We didn't exactly get anything for Kanter. If you had a car that's worth $5k, would you rather give it away to charity or trade it for a box of yesterday's hot dogs from 711? From a purely economical point of view the latter obviously wins out, but we're not really looking at it in isolation.
I don't see that as a very tight connection. We were trading a player to a team who matched a max offer from a second team. That shows he had a specific monetary value to at least two teams. OKC valuing Pleiss as a worthy high second round pick in their given circumstances really has no bearing to us nor indicate our value of the player, unless we're saying we valued Pleiss so high that we'd give up a #3 pick for him. But let's get real. We didn't trade for Pleiss. We just took a collection of trash as somehow it all had additive value as a composite. I'm perfectly content letting Kanter walk.
What a weird move. Ive always liked Marhsall. Got to love a pass first PG with vision.
I will take to twitter to thank him for his service
This move was to help make a max offer for Favors, I'm guessing. I expect it to follow suit in the coming days.
Can't be done until sept/oct if iirc... so don't get nervous if nothing is announced soon.