How about they move free agency before the draft. Then have draft position in reverse order of payroll. Gets rid of tanking too.
350 mil is not cost prohibitive anymore in some markets. Clippers are loading up the same way for next year, and will have a 300+ mil bill at the end of the year. Their ownership is OK with that. Our seemingly poverty franchise can't.
Can the NBA get a better system like the NFL Hard Cap. The NFL places a big premium on draft picks, and player development. But every team, except poorly run, has a chance to really compete. I like that the Blazers seem more into development of drafted assets now. Ant, Nas, Watford are all developing into nice to potential special players. Look forward to what they do with Sharpe.
Yeah the luxury tax has basically made it so the super rich teams in glamour markets have the largest chance to contend. The other franchises in smaller markets have to get extremely lucky or have near perfect roster moves to contend.
Latest from Fischer boy is Knicks will offer Brunson more than 25M. If that’s true that means they’ll have to dump both Noel and Reddish (or some other combo) not just one of them.
They also have Burks and Fornier, so probably just have to dump two of those 4? I'd think Reddish has the most value then probably Noel. Its funny they signed all these shit players to overpaid deals last summer, now they are having to attach picks and other assets just to get rid of them for a non star free agent. Knicks making sure that streak of not winning playoff series will go on a long time.
If I'm Brunson I'm telling the Knicks they have to offer the max. They have already given up so much they can't just walk away.
Is it possible that the Knicks can't get anybody to go there? I mean, they had enough cap space last year at this time to sign a supermax player and a max player to join Randle, what did they do? They signed all of the backups they had a fluke run with to big contracts and added only Evan Fournier. SMH. They play in Madison Square Garden which is in the business hub of the country. These guys are a joke and now they're trying to dump most of the guys they just signed. I don't get it but they've been a disaster for a while. Maybe we can capitalize off of their misfortunes somehow.
If we are just going to try and take flyers on players using the TPEs, I wonder if they’d give up Reddish for a 2nd to clear up more cap space. They gave up a 1st for him. If anything, he is just another guy to compete with Watford for the backup PF spot.
“Boy, I’m really excited about our team… The sky’s the limit for our team… Of course, you’ve gotta have a little bit of good luck to win the Larry O’Brien trophy, which is what we’d really like.” Steve Ballmer is hyped for the 2022-23 Clippers season. waiting for Jody… let’s hear how excited she is like Balmer
reddish is more of a small forward, where right now we only really have Nas, unless you wanna count part time threes like Hart and Winslow.
A star player exception for every small Market team? As in small market teams get a star player contract that doesn't count towards the tax, and therefore doesn't take up half or more of the team salary.
Taurean Prince just got 8M per year WTF? Otto Porter is getting the full MLE from someone, hopefully us.
Another avenue for the Sixers could be an attempt to package a combination of Furkan Korkmaz ($5 million), Matisse Thybulle ($4.3 million), Georges Niang ($3.4 million), and Shake Milton ($1.9 million, after the Sixers picked up his option on Tuesday) to a team without getting a player back in return.
