It's gonna be hard to swallow a contract paying Meyers more than $10 million per year..... and I'm not even paying the money!
10 wouldn't be so bad after the cap shoots up. I think the goal should be to get Hendo+Meyers for a total of ~23mil per year combined.
I wonder what the cap will look like in five years; TV is moving away from monolithic cable deals, and cord cutting might affect how much money the NBA can get for their game broadcasts. It's definitely going to have an effect down the road, but hopefully it'll be after the next CBA.
Man... some idiot team is going to max him and then we're going to be in the same situation that we put OKC in last summer.
If the NBA wants to stay ahead of the curve they will eliminate blackouts on LP and turn it into a primo streaming service that can be played via roku, ps4/Xbox, chromecast, etc. that would probably bank them a lot of money with the whole cord cutting thing going on.
I don't like this positional list or 9 man concept at all. Way too strict of an analysis. It looks great when creating a fantasy team, or playing a video game. But long-term NBA success is about having a group of players who provide skills to get the ball in the hoop on one end and prevent it from going in the other. It doesn't matter what one or two positional flags fans attach to a player. There doesn't need to be such a tight limit of a 9 man rotation; this year's lack of injuries is very unusual. Maybe we trade a big for small or small for big. Focus on getting players based on what abilities they have now, how much they will improve, how happy they will be with this team, and the cost of their contract. Dame and Meyers are the only guys with more than two full years experience on the team. Apparent roles this summer could be very different than opportunities one, two, three years from now. When acquiring players worry about what value they will provide in the long term. The coach sets the best 9 man rotations in the short term.
I would love for someone to Max Meyers. We get to let him go without much thought and he gets paid and is a burden on someones cap in 3 years.
Gosh I hope not! Hendo is a quality backup and Meyers we hope becomes a good backup. Lillard and CJ will get around ~$50 million combined on max deals starting next summer. That leaves ~$30mil for the other 11 players? We still need 3 more starters, 3 backups and 5 third stringers. I'm for spending $23 million on another high quality starter; but not two backups with questions. Hendo is athletically declining and Meyers hasn't been good yet. We got Aminu & Ed, who are both superior, for $14mil. If we give Hendo & Meyers such big contracts that leaves only $16 million for a roster needing 2 starters and 2 backups. Plumlee will be eligible for a new contract at that time. That will be a year from this summer when CJ's max/near max contract is kicking in. Vonleh will be eligible for an extension then too. The cap is projected to start going down the year after. We can go a few bucks over the cap for our own free agents but is that what we want to do with no additions to this roster? So far CJ and Dame are the only proven legit long term core pieces of our team. Ed Davis is the for sure long term role player. Everyone else has value but questions; so unless we're adding a long term starter we should keep flexibility for roster tweaks. The consistent problem teams have made over the years with contracts is overpaying for bench players. I hope we keep Hendo on our bench but it shouldn't be part of a $23 million extension with Meyers.
