How much capspace will we really have this summer?

I just took a quick run through Storyteller's team salary pages and it looks to me like over half of the teams in the NBA will have significant cap space this summer. It looks to me like there could be some serious competition for the better FAs. Given that, I hope that a deal can be made before the deadline to add to the team.

 

Damn right! Harden is the second best player on that team. (I'm not actually sure who's the first.) And, after being ridiculously compared with Roy ever since he was at ASU, he's starting to deserve it.

 

This.
Hardens there best playmaker and passer while being a very solid defender. id offer him the max in a second if we needed a sg when he comes on the market. id rather have harden then gordan or any up and coming sg in the league.

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Yeah he's a good player

Doesn't mean you give him the MAX. The MAX is for franchise players.

 

Yikes . . . the thought of Kwame Brown on the same team, sitting in a suit next to Oden is just about enough to make my head explode.

 

Maybe we're thinking too much about a center. Since there are hardly any (IF any) center worth spending the money on, perhaps move LMA to center and go looking for a PF. A strong rebounding one who can take some pressure off LMA.

As to PG, Calderon may do the trick.

 

We need a point guard more than a center. I'm tired of seeing us fail time and time again because of terrible guard play. We need a playmaker and a leader. Centers are once in a lifetime; but the good ones will be taken and over paid if they have to. You can find decent floor generals without paying max (Maybe Nash since he's old, Miller cause of age, Lin, buying draft picks, trading or offering talent for a veteran PG, etc.). I think if we don't do this, then we are toast. We need a PG to laugh at Nate's ISO wannabe plays and call his own when he's on the floor. I laugh so hard when I can actually foretell the play before it even happens. I suck at that shit, yet I'm money when it comes to Nate's offense. Sickening!

 

I both agree and disagree.

I think, in general, the two most important positions are PG and C (unless you have a couple of superstars at other positions, a good complimenting group and a great coach- how often does that happen?). But with our ability to move LA to center, I agree we need to go after a PG first and foremost.

 

That's what I am thinking. Aldridge can actually play center. He is making an effort each and every off-season to bulk up. He is close to "center weight and strength" already. Yeah the Aldridge of 3 years ago would be a liability at center. The Aldridge now actually could be one of the best in the league.

 

Yeah, ala Tim Duncan.

 

Bump.



Chad mentioned that we'll have between 15 and 20mil of capspace. I just looked at the numbers again, and think he's underestimating, or he's thinking that we will pick up Thabeet's or Flynn's option.

If Jamal opts out, this is what we have on the payroll:
-LA- 13mil
-Wes- 6.5mil
-Nic's caphold- 5.5mil
-Draft pick 1- ~3mil (around pick 7)
-Draft pick 2- ~2.5mil (around pick 10)
-Babs- 1.9mil
-Email- 1.4mil
-Smith- 1.4mil

That totals out to 35.2mil.

With a 60mil cap, that is nearly 25mil of capspace in addition to 2 lottery picks. Obviously, if Jamal doesn't opt out, we'd lose 5 mil of our capspace. I'm glad they took my advice and found a team that would give us a pick for G. And even better that they were foolish enough to give us a lottery pick.

 

He realizes he'll probably have to sign Nic before he can sign other FA's, as Nic could easily sign an offer sheet from another team right out the gate, which would eat into the Blazers' cap room. Just to be safe you can add another $5M to Batum's cap hold to simulate his real number.

His assessment seems accurate

 

Isn't that exactly what a birds right caphold is for? I'm not exactly sure, but if we match a 10mil offer for Nic, will that immediately go into effect, and eat our capspace?

 

Looking at the UFA list I realized that this years crop sucks more than gravity.

The cream of the crop are RFA's.

 

There are a lot of decent Role Players but they are basically the ones you find every year. Lots of good RFA, have to overpay for them which doesnt' excite me to much though.