Yeah, Howard is going to want more than the $23 million he opted out of. And all it takes is one idiot suitor (Cuban) to give it to him. I'm more worried that we are going to end up bidding against ourselves for Howard.
they can't. They would have to renounce all their free agents and trade Redick and Pierce for cap space in order to be able to offer him about $2M less than his max.
The article really doesnt even make sense. First he says that they are sending all three and the selling point is for Durant to take less than max to play with a big 4 bu then goes on to say that Blake is the most likely to get traded. Why would you send a player that is getting traded?
I read somewhere else that they sent all three because if they didn't, it could signal who they would trade, and if it fell through..... that could go bad for LAC.
prolly just mentioning it so they have a "worst" case scenario, they will have the players there for the first part, and then have them leave when the money talks start and let Durant know they can make trades if he wont take a discount and ask him who he would want traded lol
So if they were sending out Blake: How much cap space do they need to generate? Blake is making $20,140,838 according to Basketball-Reference. So if we send out CJ who is making $3,219,579 next season, that still leaves $16,921,259 that we would have to eat on our cap. Let's say hypothetically we sign Whiteside for $22.5 million. We would have another $5 million in space, so that would leave roughly $12 million that we would have to clear. It's doable but we'd have to renounce Meyers and probably trade Aminu for nothing.
Maybe we renounce Leonard, and trade CJ/Aminu for Griffin/Wilcox. That gives LAC enough space to sign Durant, gives the Clippers a complete starting 5, and works within the cap.
If they could get someone to take JJ Redick for Cap Space, they could offer him $24M/year with raises. Maybe they do that with an opt out very soon.
Don't forget the $500K+ charges for open roster spots up to 13. They'd need to ditch Pierce too. To protect themselves, the opt-out couldn't be any sooner than 2018. If he's looking at doing something like that, why wouldn't he just stay in OKC for one year instead of being underpaid in LA for 2 years?
No, that's not how it works. Qualifying offers can always be rescinded until they're accepted. If we need the cap space currently allocated to his cap hold, we can renounce him (or Crabbe or Harkless) at any time.
