But with vonkeh,we had to pay money to move him. Again, their deals weren't guaranteed. If it was $$ saving, you wouldn't guarantee them just to move them with cash or a 2nd, you'd just waive them.
As of right now they could do that but if they sign or trade for someone else between now and then they won't be able to. So the plan is to go in to the season hoping Sacramento would just take him to help us out? I know you hate Olshey but why on Earth would anyone ever have that plan?
As of the trade deadline, Aminu will probably only be owed an additional 2.5M. I'm sure if we really need to get under the tax line, it won't be hard to find a team to take Aminu and cash in exchange for a top-55-protected 2nd.
After the Melo trade, the Kings are the ONLY team in the ENTIRE NBA that have enough cap room to absorb a contract of Aminu's size or bigger. So our whole off season strategy revolves around hoping ONE TEAM wants to take him at the deadline? Edit: We'd also only have 12 guys on the roster so we'd have to sign two more without going back over the tax line.
We don't do this without going deep into the luxury right? Is it realistic to think we'd do this? I don't think it happens with the MyTurner contracts being so big.
Of course it isn't realistic. Like I said I was hoping Allen recognized that going deep into the tax was the best and only way to really take a big step forward but I guess the money isn't worth keeping Dame happy.
Chicago had to renounce their trade exceptions to be under the cap to sign Parker. As we've seen TPEs rarely get used so I didn't factor them in because assuming other teams would want to use them is foolish. Edit: Charlotte has one from the Howard trade but extremely unlikely to add salary. Denver has one but spent the entire off season clearing one year deals from their books by attaching assets so there is no chance they add one back. OKC might get one big enough in the Melo trade but it would cost them like $60 million to add Aminu so no way. That is it, no other teams currently have an exception big enough.
yeah...but to me the Hawks would have had trouble against the summer league competition....Layman or Swanigan would probably put up big numbers for the Hawks last season and most of that NBA competition was in the east....I'm not comfortable giving up either guy for this package especially giving up a 2019 first round pick...Luke Babbitt looked good on the Hawks and he sucks...I'm of the opinion that both Layman and Swanigan could make the leap this season...even though nobody else around here is....I'd trade ET or Meyers for Prince and Plumlee but still wouldn't throw in a first round pick...we're going to need that pick next summer..the Hawks are probably one of my top 3 most disliked franchises in the league
Would you see Prince ahead of Harkless and Aminu? He doesn't seem like a real improvement to me, just another support player.
Lets put it this way: Harkless has a career high of 28 points in a game while with Orlando. Prince had 6 games just last season where he scored 28 or more including two 38 point games. Harkless has a career high of 4 assists in a game. Prince had 16 games last season with 4 or more assists including 2 games with 8 assists. I know stats aren't everything but I think this shows that Prince has a lot more potential than Harkless while providing similar defense.
