it is, but not to the extent that some people are thinking. bledsoe contract is essentially worthless now. i bet he gets waived and we eat the 3.9 mil.
And I really think Ayton's drama was because he wasn't given a contract extension to start the season like other Suns on the same contract as him. I'd be a little peeved all season too.
What are you talking about? A S&T? We have Nurk’s bird rights and go way past cap and into LT to resign him. It can be the last thing we do for the summer….
the GP2 deal triggered the hard cap. we can't exceed 157 mil. we're about 20 mil from that now and have no centers signed.
hart + winslow + keon for Barnes works. but ya, i think we're pretty much done til the deadline.
i think they're equal talents, but barnes is taller. really the only reason, but i'm torn.
think you're higher on ayton than i am. but fair opinion.
None of these deals are official…OOO does matter since moratorium isn’t over.
How the hell Golden State isn't hard capped at 300 Mil. Is beyond me. I doubt the Blazers will be Hard capped, when all is said and done.
Getting Thybulle would not have hard capped us. And his salary this yr is half of GP2's
So you think these reported agreements will be ammended? I hope so too.
if we could have gotten thybulle for a few seconds it would have happened already. This is the next best thing. We're short on rotation minutes as it is.
I think you corrected yourself but trades like this using Bledsoe to match are basically off the board now.
Hard Capped due to the GP3 signing, so this is no longer correct.
This is why I get so triggered by sign and trades. You can NOT sign and trade your own free agent like a player under contract. In order for this to happen, Ant would have to back out of his deal with Portland and then meet with Brooklyn, without our suggestion of doing so, and then not only agree to a contract with them but then also get Portland and Brooklyn to work out a trade. On top of that, both teams would be hard capped (Portland from GP2, Brooklyn from the sign and trade) and both teams would have a very difficult time staying under that hard cap line.
What good are Bird Rights then?
Exactly. And this happens all the time. The idea that we can't trade Simons til January when we haven't even signed him yet is ridiculous.
For when you aren't hard capped. In this situation, prior to the GP3 signing we could've signed Nurk to a max if we wanted to. Now, it's around $18 million if we simply cut Bledsoe and a little more if we cut and stretch Bledsoe, but the closer his contract is to that $18 million the less wiggle room they have for the entire rest of the league year.
It happens all the time? So then you should be able to site other times where a team's own free agent agreed to a deal with that team, then backed out of a deal and talked to another team that just happened to be the one team his old team needed him to talk to and a sign and trade was worked out?
Happens all the time... And the word is "cite."
Then name one time? Should be easy.
