Notice the two dingleberries were still back handing anything positive with their b*******. f*** these people, seriously.
The thing is: if we sign a third max, I have no doubt we can get a Darren Collison or a George Hill or something at the starting point spot for the Room Exception. There'll be bargain bin bigs like Noel, possibly McGee, possibly even DeAndre Jordan who would take the minimum to start here. Then you bring back guys like Bullock, maybe KCP, Caruso, even a stiff like Muscala on minimum deals to preserve their Bird Rights. Can you get some Klutch guys who want to help the Krew and get big exposure like Noel and Cory Joseph? Then you bring in some veterans who want to ring chase maybe guys like Taj Gibson, Jeff Green, Robin Lopez, Pau Gasol even, Rajon Rondo. guys like that. Now we're looking at: Hill/Rondo/Caruso Kawhi/KCP/Horton-Tucker LeBron/Bullock Davis/Kuzma/Gibson/Green McGee/Noel/J. Williams That doesn't look like a team that is starving for depth to me.
Much lower than the anticipated 500k bump...but this provides Kawhi or any other max guy an extra 140k. So with the true max now established as 32.74m, Kawhi could potentially be 600k short of that figure if he were to sign with us.
Slightly more actually. LA: 4yrs/138.5m Other cap having teams (except Toronto): 4yrs/141.1m But he's most likely hopping out of the deal after 2yrs to get that 35% max bag.
It was 2m I believe before the change, but sure. In the end it is unlikely to matter much. He'll make that money up in an instant with the Lakers. And if that amount of money is the deterrent he should have never left San Antonio.
Now that's #RealTalk (feel free to take the hashtag haha) For reference, DWade took in excess of 30m in financial sacrifices over the course of his career to team-up. Plus dude, barring serious injury, will make up for it in a couple years anyways either with a 2+1 or 1+1 deal this summer. Year 1: 32.14 Year 2 (2+1 deal): 33.75 or (opts out 1+1 deal and signs new 30% 1+1 deal) 35.1 Year 3 (opts out of 2+1 or second 1+1 and signs 35% 1+1): 43.75 Year 4 opts out of early bird 35% 1+1 deal and signs a 5yr 35%max deal with 8% annual escalators by LA having his full bird rights: 273.1m So as you can see, based off contract structure, he just has to sacrifice a potential 1.95m over these next 2 years. #MoneyTalks
As of now the Miami Butler trade is on hold till they figure out how to reroute Dragic. I'm sure Philly and Miami find a way to get it done, but if the cLips get involved now, I'm sure the Kawhi talks would have died then.
It seems like the Knicks are the big losers so far... they can be joined by the Clippers, who I think way overachieved last year, but are due for a rude awakening. They are a solid team but they will have a hard time this time to make the playoffs without another star player.
you won't want to be the team that finally pays beverly, imo. he gets hurt a lot and is right at the point in his career when small guards start to deteriorate quickly.
I remember the days when Kobe or KG signed 7 year contracts for 136 mio.... Now borderline scrubs get max contracts worth 150-200 for 4 or 5 years...its crazy. Jamal Murray getting 5 years and 170 mio...averaging like 16/4 on low percentages...amazing.
