How much capspace will we really have this summer?

I want us to overhaul the roster this summer and wanted to figure out how much we have to spend. Is this right?

Just going by Storyteller's site, with LA, Wes, Nic's caphold, Luke, Kurt, Elliot, and Nolan, and a first round draft pick we're at ~34mil. If Jamal and Gerald opt in, we're at ~49mil.

So potentially if the cap is ~60 mil (was 59 last year) we have anywhere between 24 and 11 mil of capspace.

This leaves us without a center and a PG. We can throw one max offer (~16mil), one > MLE offer (~8mil), and then use Nic's bird rights to match his offer (assuming ~9mil) and stay right up close to that luxury tax threshold. We will then have the vet min to fill out the roster.

All this means that we have to lose Camby, Wallace, Felton, Jamal, and GO in order to have any flexibility in free agency. The best option I think is to trade away Wallace now for some draft picks and ensure that he won't eat into our capspace this summer, while still getting value. Jamal will not opt in here, and he doesn't have much value now, so I don't think there's a point to moving him.

 

Deron and Hawes are the guys I go after with everything possible.

 

I can see us going after eric gordan and of course dwill if he opts out. With the left over im betting we sign Robin Lopez or Spencer Hawes. If we strike out on the two gaurds we max out hibbert once he is matched, I got a bad feeling we'll throw HUGE money at Brook Lopez.
Frankly if we cant land DWill no one this summer really excites me.

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I'd try moving Babbitt for nothing. The extra 1-2 million or so would be more useful than him.

 

I don't see many teams out there wanting Gerald right now, tbh. Maybe Wallace and Babbit for Kwame Brown and Brandon Rush + GSW's pick this year. Rush is leading the league in 3pt% and could possibly help this year. Kwame is useless, but expiring. That deal with NJ-ORL that would have landed us 4 picks would have been nice, but it would have taken Deron out of consideration this summer for us as he would re-sign in NJ.

 

Brook Lopez would be an awesome signing. Why are you afraid of that? He'd be a nice consolation prize for the Oden debacle. If Oden had stayed healthy, we'd be giving him the max. Brook may not be what Oden could have become, but he's a very nice center who can man the middle for the next decade. Give him the max!

 

You won't steal Lopez away from NJ. He's restricted. Deron is not.

 

He's not very good. He put up points on a bad team, and is a far worse rebound than Aldridge. And he did just break his foot.

He's an okay scorer, but he duplicates everything LA does (but worse). I don't think the two would mesh very well.

 

Trade Babbit for a second rounder. We get an additional 2 mil.

 

It's possible, since NJ only has 3 days to match. Maybe not probable, but if they have dreams of Deron and Dwight, it'll take them some time to set that up. A max offer to match on Brook screw that plan up a bit. The hope is the indecision on Deron and Dwight's parts will allow us to swoop in.

 

Actually you have a point. It could be possible that NJ will be trying to land Howard and won't want to resign Lopez in process.

 

We never had cap space since the early/mid 90's. Which one are you talking about?

 

miller.

 

lets sign a center who rebounds at the same rate as toronto's wannabe dirk for a team that has a hard time outrebounding there opponents. Lopez wouldnt be bad but at over 10m a year i dont want him.

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You could sign Lopez to the max....

If you want to screw any chance the Blazers have of contending in the future.

 

Make OKC choose between Harden and Ibaka by offering a max deal at James. They can't afford both IMO.

 

Harden isn't an RFA till next year.

 

That's a year away from now. Ibaka came over a year after his draft and Harden was drafted in 09.

 

You want the Blazers to offer a max deal for James Harden?

OK........