So, absent the capholds, the first rounders, and the roster charges, the guarantees are 61 mil, which is 60 less than the cap. So the 60M number has a basis...it just ignores several other relevant factors.
The 60M doesn't include Josh Hart, who has a 13M team option, or Nurkic/Simons caphold. Thats why at the very least you need to get rid of Nurkic. Then we have around 28M to play with. Still not great.
i think we might keep hart. 13 mil is very reasonable for a solid starter who plays good D and puts up 13/7/4
Yeah. I mean for sure we are keeping Hart. He's a long term piece at that price. But Hart + Simons is already close to 30M. They have to get rid of Nurkic to have ANY kind of capspace.
I think a better plan would probably be to use that TPE before Thursday as @andalusian noted and try to go into the FA above the cap so we can at least retain our MLE and Hart.
Getting rid of Nurk in favor of capspace that will undoubtably only bring in inferior players is a horrible idea. Nurk has shown what he's capable of.
Capable of having 4-5 games and then taking a huge dump the next 5. I'm not counting on him being a championship piece unless he's the 5th option, and in that case dude is gonna mope around.
He's shown more than that... can't wait to see the huge improvement that capspace will provide. Oh and a TPE that probably won't be used. And a first that probably won't come to us this year. And 2nd round draft picks! Oh boy!
So basically....... a move now to make sure we're under the luxury tax this summer. Sounds about right.
I think this is going to come full circle and we're going to try hard for Myles Turner (Bledsoe contract + pick) or Jermai Grant (with our new TPE + picks). I don't hate this core. Lillard/Simons Hart/Simons Little Grant Nurkic We'd be a long and athletic team.
In this case, I wonder what are the under $21m dead contracts around the league we might be willing to take in addition for a cheap prospect or draft picks?
Still questioning the validity of that 21 mil number. I'm not sure how to make the math work to get to it. But....
