Not from us, I hope. OK, what I meant to say is Philly can give him to us for free. They are the ones who need for this deal to go through.
These guys don't think it's close: Garland crafted OPM 95th percentile, Anf 86th; Anf better in the shooting categories but Garland better in most others, especially passing and creating. On defense Garland with only a 44th percentile DPM but Anf in the lowest percentile, 1. Garland far superior in creating deflections and turnovers and not fouling. https://craftednba.com/players/anfernee-simons https://craftednba.com/players/darius-garland
Something like every team to win an NBA title since 2000 except 1 was in the Top-10 in defense. Hopefully Chauncey can teach Ant some things.....and it can't really get worse, can it?
That's true, but those stats are from last year with Billups as coach. I'm not really optimistic about him or Lillard improving substantially on D.
Somehow it left out part of what I typed. It should have read, "Something like every team to win an NBA title since 2000 except 1 was in the Top-10 in defense. Hopefully Chauncey can teach Ant some things.....and it can't really get worse, can it?" (Referring to Ant being in the very bottom percentile in term of defense.)
MLE is 10.349M. The assumption is the Payton's first year will be 8.889M, leaving as much as 1.46M available for the first year of a contract for Walker.
they wouldn't pay him more than the minimum. The advantage to using the exception to sign him is they could add a 3rd year to his deal they'd have full-bird rights when he was RFA. I know that you know that but it's worth saying that is the main reason teams use an exception to sign a 2nd round pick
What should we expect to see when July 6th comes around? That will probably be an eventful day around the league. Not much news on Ayton so far.
moratorium ends at 9 AM Pacific tomorrow. I'm guessing they'll hold a PC introducing Grant and Payton. And maybe another for Ant/Nurk/Drew. Can one of the media members ask whether ducking the tax is a priority? that should give indication whether we're done this summer or if there's more to come. Cronin has been somewhat forthcoming so we might get an answer.
Doesn't really matter what they say. All about action. Neil always said he could spend, but made plenty of moves specifically to duck the tax.