"Portland can't get free agents to come here!" ... "Free agents cost a lot of money, we don't want them!"
yeah...like, veteran players are too old....they'll start their decline second year of their contract....maybe they'll take less because we're nice fans!!!
It's funny when people finally realize that just because they're free agents doesn't mean they'll play for free.
Phoenix makes sense in a way, but on the other hand they have Chriss who they will want to develop (and Bender). He is still very young and should be ready to make proper impact in 2-3 years and that's when Millsap will start fading. Millsap will get a great deal because he is actually the only good/great player in free agency who is likely to consider them.
Mason Plumlee would fit the Hawks well....he's a free agent and Millsap would work better in Denver. Faried is probably gone next season. I'd expect Will Barton to end up in Phoenix or Philly....
It wouldn't make sense for PHX but they'd consider it anyway. Blake Griffin makes more sense for DEN and PHX, but isn't likely. Other teams to watch Miami, Minnesota, Houston (If they trade away Ryan Anderson), Indiana (If they keep Paul George), Chicago
I doubt anyone will take Anderson and his ridiculous deal. He belongs to the list of 2016 free agents who would have got a $9M deal had he been expiring a year before, and who people tried to argue was somehow not completely overpriced because "under new cap it will not mean much". Chicago makes sense. Miami does too. I am not sure Minnesota have cap space, and Indiana will need to sign a point guard.
Maybe. Or maybe they'd not clog their salary cap with mediocre players even if it means getting additional assets. Amazing how many terrible contracts were given last year. Really, the league bumping up the cap by over 30% in a year was ridiculous idea.
It's really funny how they kept using that last year and we see now a lot of teams trapped in silly contracts. These contracts for mediocre players mean much under every cap since the good ones (not only the best but good ones as well) will still command 25 or 30% of it.
Exactly! Getting additional $24M and spending it immediately on crap players does not get you anywhere. IMO the most sensible team about it was Denver. They literally did not go after anyone, they did not hand out any ludicrous contract which is why they are now in position to get good free agents. Their guaranteed contracts for next season are something silly like $35M so they will be able to offer good teals to the likes of Millsap etc. and maybe get some good rotation players as well, for lower prices because this Summer there will no longer be 25 teams with $30M of available cap space. I am still amazed how people thought it was good idea to give $17M to random players. Also, why the NBA decided to make it all available immediately, couldn't they find some workaround?
Someone else offering Milsap a big contract could actually give us leverage, if he tells the Hawks he walks for free to another team or they sign and trade with us.
I don't think Denver cares he is overpriced because they have tons of flexibility for the next 3-4 years, but for us I think it's too much. It will be around 85M between Dame, CJ and Millsap and lets estimate 20M for Nurk it means from next year we are locked at around 105M for 4 players. That should be tax repeater forever. And it's not that Millsap has many productive years ahead. Maybe 2 more?
He will get $30M a year. Are we spending $100M a year on a core of Lillard, CJ, Millsap and Nurkic who won't win us championships anyway?
