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Okay, now that I've taken a breath I can think of one positive from this trade:

It creates an over $7 million trade exception if we absorb Caleb with the Hood DPE and Gabriel with one of our other small trade exceptions.

The bad part is if this trade was just to save money then that exception will go unused.
 
B-Roy said:
It's 1.8 million for Ariza. We had no cap anyways for a max player.
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What are you talking about... $21 mil in expiring contracts of Bazemore and Tolliver was traded for $14 mil of an extra year from Ariza and Gabrial
 
B-Roy said:
For what it's worth, Ariza will actually be decent on this team I think.
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What’s funny is Ariza actually isn’t that much worse than Covington. His rebound percentage is identical, his assist percentage is superior, his steal percentage is in the same ballpark (2.2 vs 2.8) as is his dbpm (1.1 vs 1.7.) And those are his numbers this season, because if you look at their cumulative numbers, Ariza is actually superior. Put him with Dame and CJ and I’d bet his shooting percentages go up. For the price, I don’t understand the anger.
 
Scalma said:
What’s funny is Ariza actually isn’t that much worse than Covington. His rebound percentage is identical, his assist percentage is superior, his steal percentage is in the same ballpark (2.2 vs 2.8) as is his dbpm (1.1 vs 1.7.) And those are his numbers this season, because if you look at their cumulative numbers, Ariza is actually superior. Put him with Dame and CJ and I’d bet his shooting percentages go up.
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His shooting goes up next to guys that don’t pass the ball?! Also, he is turning 35 this year!
 
I’m so confused about this trade... did we get better or not? Is our season already over?
 
Seriously, I didn’t think there was a worse scenario than letting Whiteside and Bazemore walk... Neil proved me wrong... we will lose both players now AND have no cap space.
 
Neil O. Shyster said:
What are you talking about... $21 mil in expiring contracts of Bazemore and Tolliver was traded for $14 mil of an extra year from Ariza and Gabrial
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We went from having ~14 million in space to ~12. Tell me what difference that makes.
 
DDolla said:
I’m so confused about this trade... did we get better or not? Is our season already over?
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We certainly didn't get worse, but we could have done better because this is not a guy that has a future really. This year we are done anyway so we count on Ariza helping us next season when he will be near 36 at 2021 playoffs (if we are there). Yeah i don't think he will be any good, he is already on severe decline.
 
Is anyone still defending Neil?! He got us into this mess with a league high $148 mil payroll and now the fans will pay for it with his salary dumps
 
hoopsjock said:
Okay, now that I've taken a breath I can think of one positive from this trade:

It creates an over $7 million trade exception if we absorb Caleb with the Hood DPE and Gabriel with one of our other small trade exceptions.

The bad part is if this trade was just to save money then that exception will go unused.
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Do you think this is part of something bigger? Or simply tax relief? Or maybe he disliked Bazemore as much as I did?
 
Neil O. Shyster said:
Is anyone still defending Neil?! He got us into this mess with a league high $148 mil payroll and now the fans will pay for it with his salary dumps
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The trade deadline isn’t over yet!
Expect the unexpected!
 
Neil O. Shyster said:
What are you talking about... $21 mil in expiring contracts of Bazemore and Tolliver was traded for $14 mil of an extra year from Ariza and Gabrial
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Ariza has a non-guaranteed contract next year. If waived this summer he gets $1.8 million to go away. Gabriel is a restricted free agent so we could let him walk for nothing if it's that big of a deal.
 
Gabriel’s numbers in the g league this year

7 games
25 mpg
26.7 PER
.732 TS%
18.5 TRB %
6.4 BLK %
5.2 BPM

You can argue sample size, but the shooting is legit, as he had a true shooting percentage of .573 last year in 40+ games and is a 77% FT shooter overall. His other percentages line up as well. 6’9 with a 7’1 wingspan.

Yeah, I’m intrigued. Rather watch him than Tolliver any day.
 
Neil O. Shyster said:
How does $14 mil less in expirings only reduce cap room by $2 mil?
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We are still over the cap either way. Not like we could have used Baze's money if he had left. I am sure someone who understand the salary cap more will jump in, but we will still only have the MDE next year.
 
weak...for basketball reasons

obviously there has been an edict from Seattle to start cutting costs. Ariza will almost certainly be waived by the end of June.
 
Propagandist said:
Do you think this is part of something bigger? Or simply tax relief? Or maybe he disliked Bazemore as much as I did?
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I'm really not sure. If I had to guess this trade combined with the fact that we haven't signed anyone with the open roster spot(s), not even to a 10-day contract, probably means that they're more concerned with the tax payments than it being a part of something bigger.
 
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