I don't think that's true about having to use cap space, I think you can always go over the cap to sign a player to the league min. We definitely didn't use the BAE on those guys because most of our second rounders are signed in consecutive years.
Ant said that in an interview and I commented that I hope he's working on defense too. Many in here said that has to be done through in game situations which I didn't exactly agree with.
When healthy I honestly don't think there are minutes for anyone outside of Dame, CJ and Gary at guard, Covington, Hood, Zach, DJJ and Melo at forward and Nurk and Enes at center that's a ten man rotation all of whom are used to getting major minutes. All of our young guys Nas, Ant, Giles, Elleby and whoever gets the two way will only be used in case of injury and major foul trouble because I honestly think we'll have a ten man rotation this season and that's a lot for the NBA. No room for anyone else to get regular minutes.
I have a few insiders down in LA telling me that the Lakers are holding off on offering the SUPERMAX to AD because they might offer it to Whiteside instead!
Yup. I think barring a trade of CJ, which clearly isn't happening at this point, I think we're done. I think there will be a trade at the deadline though. We have too many mouths to feed and not enough food to go around.
And Portland is only ~$600k below the tax line. I'd wager NO has been asked by management to stay below the tax. I don't see any further moves unless it's a trade to reduce salary (or to pick up a vet min contract at the trade deadline).
BAE can be used at the deadline on buyout candidates, so it's a nice tool to have in case we are competing against another team with only the vet min. Plus there are no more minutes for anyone else. Sign some two-way players to develop/use in practice and we're done.
