Come one, come all...summer cap room primer.

I thought I read that if you are under the cap, you do not get TPE. I could be wrong. But if that's the case, then those deals with Blake and Outlaw don't do anything for us. In order to maximize our cap space, we have to renounce Blake and Outlaw. And then hope we cna sign or trade for someone. There aren't many signing possibilities that are really enticing. So we would need to look at trade. Detroit would be in the same position. So potentially will Memphis and a couple of other teams, I think. So we compete with them to make those instant cost saving trades. It would stand to reason we might have to throw something extra in to get a deal done. Possibly a young player, who knows. So then you're looking at a trade of RLEC, Outlaw, Blake, and whatever else it may take, to get a player we want. If we pay all that in the summer, why not pay that now, and increase the possibility of playing past the first round of the playoffs?

 

Maybe KP will. KP is a gambler, and he is playing against three others in this game. He only has to beat one of them.

He will not walk away empty handed though. This gamble is backed up by the ability to do something else this Summer.

If I could bet on 3:1 odds and then still walk away with 80% of my bet if I didn't win I'd play the game and hold too.

 

A thing to remember is that if we let Raef expire and then do a deal where we send out our cap space in a trade is that we will be creating a TPE for the other team. That could be a valuable chip to a team such as Charlotte possibly. Just something to consider as another asset to offer.