And Hibbert being on his last year is extremely valuable. It's a huge cap relief in mid season trades, or that same relief for your team. Signing Lopez 9 mil for the next 4 years would be 9 mil more next summer according to your sense of reality.
They could but there is a non-zero chance they wouldn't in that scenario. There is a 100% chance they would in this new scenario is all I am saying.
I'm disinterested in your apologies. (Theoretically, I do know the difference between "disinterested" and "uninterested" but, for some reason that I can't quite pin down, "uninterested" always seems more awkward to me leading me to make that error more than I'd like.)
Am I the only one that still wants Lopez back? I think his hand really affected his play last year. He would come at a reasonable price and he seems to fit in. I'd give him another shot, even as a backup.
Since nobody wants Hibbert we should be getting a draft pick for taking him on - maybe both IND and GSW should give us a pick for facilitating this trade.
If his primary value is in his "expiring contract" then why even sign him in the first place? Just keep your cap space. Why tie up such a big chunk of our free agent money in a one year rental, if Hibbert isn't a long term solution. Not sure if I'd give Lopez that..but it might be better than it looks now with the way the cap is inflating. 9 mil in a couple of years will be like 6 mil today. It might be a better value to retain Freeland.
Without some major trade activity, there is no way he comes back with the log jammed frontcourt we have now
I would have considered a Batum for Hibbert deal straight up, just to try Hibbert out, but I think we did better getting Henderson and Vonleh.
Because that's not why you trade for him. You hope that he can become the Hibbert of two years ago with the change of scenery. If it doesn't work out, you have a very valuable expiring, or ability to sign him for much less. Either way, the risk/reward factor is good
Let's take Hibbert and start Plumlee at PF and Meyers at SF. That'll show those small-ballin' fuckers.
But that 15 mil you are giving to Hibbert could be a really good player, or a number of good reserves. The cost is too high to just hope him returns back to form. And he's never been good on the offensive end. Teams really exploited Lopez slow-a-footness last year, and I'm ready for a change up.
But it wouldn't in my scenario. It's Kaman's $5 mil and $10 mil in space. So actually it would be Kaman and Lopez for Hibbert. That's worth it
