Official: Free Agency and MLE options thread

Thunder or Warriors I guess.

 

It’s gone with the signing of Seth Curry.

 

Nope. Use the BAE on Curry, and the full MLE on Tyreke.

 

How would that work? Not saying it can’t, I’m genuinely curious.

 

I bet he goes to Houston. They need someone like him after Ariza left.

 

Can we actually do that?

We cannot use full MLE anyway though, just taxpayer’s. Most of the league is operating with just that though so it’s not a problem

 

Yeah I thought we used part of the mle on curry.

 

As of right now we'd have to make a lopsided trade. Something like Aminu to Philly for the rights to Jonah Bolden would be f-ing fantastic and save us about $5.5 million if Bolden came over. Of course Nurk would have to take the QO too for it to work.

Curry could slide into the BAE and Evans could be offered almost exactly the Full-MLE. We'd be hard capped but our roster would be full anyway.

Dame, CJ, Tyreke, Collins, Nurk

Curry, Baldwin, Harkless, Swanigan, Bolden

Stauskas, Turner, Simons, Trent, Leonard

Cut PapaG if Bolden comes. I feel like I'm missing someone but that's a pretty solid squad.

 

Philly have no reason to trade Bolden for Aminu. They are apparently quite high on Bolden, they can get him locked down for a longer period for less money compared to Aminu’s one year contract at $7million. I actually think we’d find it hard enough to deal Aminu in current climate plus we have no reason to as his experience and defence will be key.

 

I know it's unlikely, I am saying that would be the type of move we'd need to make. BTW, it was rumored just a day or two ago that the 76ers were looking to trade Bolden so I don't think they are really that high on him.

 

Rumor: Tyreke to Indy

 

That would make a ton of sense. He could basically take over Crazy Lance's role and be more productive.

 

so tyreke has talked to

warriors
lakers
okc

jsut put them and the rockets in their own 4 team comp and they can battle it out for 40 games n leave the rest of us alone.

 

I kind of respect what OKC is doing right now. They had no hope to win last season and most teams in their position would have given up with the prospect of paying $140million in luxury taxes looming over them but they decided to give it another go and are trying to put together a team around Westbrook and George that might be able to compete.

That 2 or 3 week period last season when Roberson was healthy and it all clicked was great for them, it looked like they could be a challenge for Warriors and they annihilated them twice.

I admire their commitment and brave decisions (letting Oladipo and Sabonis go for a perceived one year rental of George, sending Ibaka to Orlando). It’s something we can’t say about Portland’s front office.

 

I feel like all of these changes to the salary cap have only fucked the small market teams. They should just put it back the way it was.

 

NBA won't be fixed before 2020 when most terrible deals from 2016 free agency expire. We will have talented players like Randle making $9million and bums like Biyombo making $18million until then.

Not phasing the salary cap increase in 2016 was a massive clusterfuck which ruined the league. It also made it possible for Durant to go to Warriors, we shouldn't forget.

 

I hope it bankrupts them and someone from Seattle buys the team and moves it.

 

What is our current cap situation? Can we still extend Nurk to something like a 10 mil deal AND use our AC TPE?

These apron rules confuse me

 

We can extend him for the max and use our tpe if we want to.

 

And I'm guessing we used part of our MLE to sign Curry. So we have about 2 mil left there.