2020 RW - 40 million Adams - 30 million PG - 35ish Total of 105 million for 3 got damn players Good luck and Godspeed if you stay PG, because OKC ain’t gonna be putting anything but mid-late draft picks and vet min next to you.
To be fair it's tough for an organization in a bottom 5 market. Spending the money OKC spends has to be a sure-hit, without at least a long playoff run. That said, things are going to go down Adam's playoff stats: 8.8 pts, 5.8 reb, 0.8 blks playoff stats - 22.5 mil a year - 3 more years at even higher rates after this. Melo with another year.....28 mil.... of which he will opt in and destroy them. Melo's playoff stats 11.8 ppg on .375 shooting .214 from 3s and he took 3s with a green light (4.7 a game). Credit to Utah's defence which exposed OKC but as said above, PG, the road is clear in OKC. Very. Follow the yellow & purple non-brick road. Aaron Mints will break down the reality of the situation in OKC for PG and Mintz has Randle who also would like to be in LA next year. I think Aaron has some serious motivation to help grease the way for PG to LA and keep Randel there as well. He needs to some do some reconnaissance work with Rich Paul about LBJ and his feelings about playing with PG/Randel and as much of our youth as possible. And then there is Kawhi. Who knows maybe DeMarcus jumps on board on a one year "prove your self" deal for our MLE. I think people are scared s***less of that boy now, for serious paper. No idea what is gonna wind down but I'm excited with Rob scheming at the helm and Majic closing. I've trained people in sales for a few decades and I would personally fear sitting down at the table with MagRob (ok Magic is a hero, but he is to most in the league) There are many wheels are already in motion that we don't know about. This isn't Mitch and Jim, I believe their total in fines during their careers for tampering were $0 total career? Compared to a $550K record setting first year (or any year) for our boys for an apparent lack of of discretion. it's called aggressiveness. Another team was so scared of what these guys were doing that they did the very rare thing of actually filing a complaint with the NBA causing the fine. These boys work the angles and solidify the solid prospects. Any real decisions with PG's confidence in his current team, are gone. Arron Mintz will lead PG away from OKC, as if he has to. I hope Toronto puts the beat down on Cleveland. But there is also Kawhi. We have one done as far as I am concerned. I'll be shocked otherwise unless Paul wanted Philly and I doubt that. Ah...summertime.
The only things I'd correct here (besides obviously the fence swinging) is that Andre Ingram is very, very unlikely to be involved. He was an amazing story and I'm happy we gave him his shot, but I'd be shocked if he was on the team next season. The only way I see that happening is if he has some kind of crazy Summer League and Training Camp. With that lineup, assuming we kept Deng, we'd still maybe have money to spend. If you include all our guaranteed contracts (Deng too), Randle's cap hold, and George's 30 million, we're still at 83ish million. We still have money there to add some solid veteran PG or maybe even offer KCP a solid contract to be our bench SG? I don't know if someone out there offers him a starting job honestly. There's a lot of flexibility there, assuming Randle gives us a shot to use our cash and/or takes something in the mid-teens millions.
I like what Andre brings to the team and I hope he makes the cut, maybe even as a 3rd string SG/SF. Either way we need more guards to replace our G-leaguers. And if we can draft a quality PF again with the Cavs pick, Kuzma and Hart can slide down to help out our SG/SF rotation.
If Lopez comes back I expect him to play 25 mpg tops, which forces Randle to play most of his minutes at C. That leaves Kuzma with 40+ potential minutes at PF. Likewise even if George and Ingram plays 35 minutes each, there will be plenty of minutes left for Hart.
Just showing positions where not counting Bryant .... those core 7 players fit best to keep us running strong. BI would be more valuable backing up Zo rather than at the 2 where Hart is of course available. Though you had "A" Ingram there.
Trade Luol Deng, Zubac, 25th pick, 2020 pick, and 2nd round pick to OKC for Paul George. Sign LeBron Resign Randle Mle Brook Sign Tyreke Evans Sign Ersan Ilyasova And we're good. Zo/Evans PG/Hart Ingram/kuz Lebron/Ilyasova Randle/Brook Contender for years
You're right... He doesn't seem happy cause why make a dummy account to defend your decision of leaving and come off so aggressive on it... But, he definitely is happier in the bay area than in Oklahoma. That much is certain. Btw, game ball goes to Brodie who kept his mouth shut and prevented the jinx from happening. Thx for being a good sport about it and big ups to LT for being a team player.
I don't think it will happen but Simmons-PG13-Covington-Saric-Embiid would be insane on both sides of the court
