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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:09 am    Post subject:

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I think this applies most to Bamba. 6th player picked. 7’10 wingspan, can knock down a 3 and definitely can protect the rim. There’s no one like him in the draft compared to a ton of athletic 6’6 - 6’9 athletic wings. And again with AD more than likely having surgery in the off season…Bamba is more of a need and Pelinka finally got him after pursuing him for 2 years.


I have no idea what will happen with Bamba. It wouldn't shock me to see him be a luxury tax casualty.
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I think it's highly unlikely they opt in for Beas. And I don't think they'd do it for a marginal upgrade like Hield. Unless they stopped caring about money, Hield/Beasley's salaries represent significant opportunity cost in the form of players in whom have more stake.


Reality check: The whole Hield thing was nothing more than a suggestion from a LG poster who is basically fantacizing that we could get him for a small cost (Beasley, and a pick swap). There is no reason to think the Lakers are actually targeting Hield at this point.
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It’s a no brainer that the FO office must at the minimum pick up the team options for the players they traded assets for during the trade deadline and resign DLO (or S/T) simply for at least asset management. But I have zero faith in cheapo Jeannie and incompetent Rambii group. Expect the worst and hope for the best until team is sold to a professional group.
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I imagine Vandy will stick around because of his low salary. But I wouldn't call him the "centerpiece" of the deal. DLo was the most important part of the trade for us.(Getting rid of Westbrook may have been the second most important part.)


I think we've gotten a much better picture of Vanderbilt over the last six weeks. He has some abilities that are useful, but he also has holes in his game. You can see why he's on his fourth team in four years. At some point, we're going to need to make a tricky call about what to do with him. Thankfully, we won't need to make that call this summer.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:13 am    Post subject:

Before all the trades, we had an expiring Russ, PatBev, JTA, TB and Nunn. The only guy potentially leaking into next year’s salary sheet was Damien’s 2.6m via player option. We swapped that for essentially all expirings in DLo, Beas (via team option), Mo (nonguaranteed), Rui (renounce as RFA), Reed (nonguaranteed) and Vando (only 300k guaranteed if waived).

We targeted only expiring / short term deals with the ability to flex into extending them and we gave up the 2027 1st to do that.

The kicker is that we literally dumped PatBev. We had enough salary to swap Nunn for Rui and TB for Reed. We had enough salary in Russ/Damien to get DLo, Beas, Mo & Vando.

Instead we set up 2 multiteam trades with a 3teamer (w/Minny & Utah) & 4teamer (w/Orlando, Denver & cLips), when we had the means to just include Orlando into the Utah/Minny trade where we walk away with at least a tax-free 13m TPE in dumping PatBev.

That at least indicates to me that we made all those trades to give us the best chance in competing this year, while also creating the type of flexibility needed to address the offseason under different scenarios (ie as a cap having vs a cap strapped team).

But for a team that is sincerely trying to make a run at it this year, why dump a player like PatBev, when we had a 15th roster spot and you need a defensive oriented pest like that to take advantage of the postseason?

Answer is pretty $imple…even as a nonrepeat tax offender this year, dude woulda cost us nearly 50m in additional taxes. We are currently paying about 36m in taxes for our 14 man roster. If PatBev (and his 13m deal) were still here occupying that 15th roster spot (and impacting our books), our taxes would be about 87m.

So for those thinking our ownership/FO will run it back with these players next year on anywhere close to their max amounts…fogeddaboutit! They wanted no part of a 85m tax bill this year, so I highly doubt they’ll be about it next season.

Our FAs would need to give us discounts for us to expect running this team back. This is why I do believe they will take the hardcap triggering route in order to give them an out from paying a ma$$ive tax bill. Even tho I’m personally against it, I really do expect them to bring in a S&t’d player and/or ntpMLE/BAE players. That way, they only looking at 18m in taxes even as a repeat tax offender (the maxed out projection of the 172m hardcap apron is only 7m above the 165m tax line).

What’s wild to me is that they didn’t try harder to gain a tax-free TPE in dumping PatBev. But if that were the case, they had to operate as a capped out team this offseason in order to retain it. They would have had to renounce the TPE if they wanted to play the cap space game. So maybe that’s a tell in how they looking to operate this summer.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:13 am    Post subject:

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gng930 wrote:
I think it's highly unlikely they opt in for Beas. And I don't think they'd do it for a marginal upgrade like Hield. Unless they stopped caring about money, Hield/Beasley's salaries represent significant opportunity cost in the form of players in whom have more stake.


Reality check: The whole Hield thing was nothing more than a suggestion from a LG poster who is basically fantacizing that we could get him for a small cost (Beasley, and a pick swap). There is no reason to think the Lakers are actually targeting Hield at this point.


Pelinka seems to like Hield, so there's a good chance that he's still on the radar. Otherwise, you're right. This is just spitballing.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:20 am    Post subject:

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Answer is pretty $imple…even as a nonrepeat tax offender this year, dude woulda cost us nearly 50m in additional taxes. We are currently paying about 36m in taxes for our 14 man roster. If PatBev (and his 13m deal) were still here occupying that 15th roster spot (and impacting our books), our taxes would be about 87m.
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Exactly! And it does make sense from a pure business pov.
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This is why I do believe they will take the hardcap triggering route in order to give them an out from paying a ma$$ive tax bill.


But they don't actually need an out. They can just say, "We're not willing to pay repeater tax." The idea of using the hard cap as a subterfuge strikes me as tinfoil cap territory. Sure, we could wind up hard capped for other reasons (e.g., we might decide to add a player in a sign-and-trade deal), but Jeanie and Pelinka don't need a hard cap for PR reasons. After all, 95-97% of basketball fans think that a hard cap is something that construction workers wear.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:23 am    Post subject:

For those of you who still dream about Ben Simmons (if any of you are left):

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"Ben will not be joining us the rest of the year and through the playoffs," Vaughn said after practice. "After consulting with our doctors, multiple specialists, he's just going to begin a rehab program. Our doctors and the specialists feel and think that he'll have a full recovery so that starts now."


https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35981207/brooklyn-nets-shutting-ben-simmons-rest-season
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:51 am    Post subject:

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This is why I do believe they will take the hardcap triggering route in order to give them an out from paying a ma$$ive tax bill.


But they don't actually need an out. They can just say, "We're not willing to pay repeater tax." The idea of using the hard cap as a subterfuge strikes me as tinfoil cap territory. Sure, we could wind up hard capped for other reasons (e.g., we might decide to add a player in a sign-and-trade deal), but Jeanie and Pelinka don't need a hard cap for PR reasons. After all, 95-97% of basketball fans think that a hard cap is something that construction workers wear.


Sure, but I do believe the Lakers do care about bad PR.

See premature Vogel firing and then explaining how he wasn’t fired yet haha. The recent Reaves interview all but confirms that everybody in the Lakers org already knew he was getting canned.

Also see how they wanted to explain the AC departure where they didn’t want it appearing that they weren’t “aggressive” enough in retaining a fan favorite.

All I’m saying is that they’re mindful of making sure certain narratives are addressed amongst the media and fan base. After all, they do have hired folks taking care of those relationships.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aedarnell
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-bogli-816b554
https://www.nba.com/lakers/releases/lakers-hire-craig-hughner-director-media-relations
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King Randle wrote:


I think this applies most to Bamba. 6th player picked. 7’10 wingspan, can knock down a 3 and definitely can protect the rim. There’s no one like him in the draft compared to a ton of athletic 6’6 - 6’9 athletic wings. And again with AD more than likely having surgery in the off season…Bamba is more of a need and Pelinka finally got him after pursuing him for 2 years.


I have no idea what will happen with Bamba. It wouldn't shock me to see him be a luxury tax casualty.


They got a peak at what their options are without him. Tristian Thompson and Tony Bradley. I think they keep him, tbh.
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I imagine Vandy will stick around because of his low salary. But I wouldn't call him the "centerpiece" of the deal. DLo was the most important part of the trade for us.(Getting rid of Westbrook may have been the second most important part.)


I think we've gotten a much better picture of Vanderbilt over the last six weeks. He has some abilities that are useful, but he also has holes in his game. You can see why he's on his fourth team in four years. At some point, we're going to need to make a tricky call about what to do with him. Thankfully, we won't need to make that call this summer.


I remember there was this initial giddiness where LGers called him the next Dennis Rodman, but it seems everyone has come back to earth. I think he's a good guy to have. The question will be cost.
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This is why I do believe they will take the hardcap triggering route in order to give them an out from paying a ma$$ive tax bill.


But they don't actually need an out. They can just say, "We're not willing to pay repeater tax." The idea of using the hard cap as a subterfuge strikes me as tinfoil cap territory. Sure, we could wind up hard capped for other reasons (e.g., we might decide to add a player in a sign-and-trade deal), but Jeanie and Pelinka don't need a hard cap for PR reasons. After all, 95-97% of basketball fans think that a hard cap is something that construction workers wear.



That was my reaction too. If the Lakers find a trade they really like, I could see them hard-capping themselves. I don't see them hard-capping themselves on purpose to have an excuse not to spend. (1) As you note, most fans wouldn't understand the excuse, so it wouldn't really assauge anyone. And (2) the Lakers haven't been shy in the past about letting players go for salary reasons.
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I have no idea what will happen with Bamba. It wouldn't shock me to see him be a luxury tax casualty.


They got a peak at what their options are without him. Tristian Thompson and Tony Bradley. I think they keep him, tbh.


In a vacuum, sure, they'd love to keep him. The real question is are the Lakers willing to pay $10 million for a backup center, if that means an additional $30 million or whatever in tax. We shall see.

If Jeannie and Rob are faced with the question, "Is it worth paying $30-40 million for Mo Bamba next season?" I don't think it will be a no-brainer for them.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 12:55 pm    Post subject:

And in yet another round of #playingw/#s…I’m your Vashed up host & resident cap monger with today’s question…

Will the Lakers pay up for a team where we bring back our pending FAs on favorable team deals (ie DLo takes a sizable haircut off his true max, Reaves gets his full early bird max and we duck a potential poison pill offersheet, Rui gets the ntpMLE amount matched by us that he potentially could get on the open market) while bringing back our nonguaranteed/option contracts (ie Mo & Vando) for the hope of trading them for better fitting players later in the season (if not salary dumped)?

1. Bron 47.6m
2. AD 40.6m
3. DLo 25m (via a new favorable full bird deal for up to a 5yr deal)
4. Beas 16.5m (via team option exercised)
5. Reaves 11.9m (via early bird max for up to a 4yr deal)
6. Rui 11.6m (via a new favorable full bird deal for up to a 5yr deal)
7. Mo 10.3m (via retaining nonguaranteed deal)
8. MLE FA (Schro?) 6.1m (via majority of tpMLE for up to a 3yr deal)
9. Vando 4.7m (via retaining partially guaranteed deal)
10. MaxC 1.7m
11. 2023 1st pick swap ~3m
12. 2023 2nd 1.1m* (via minority of tpMLE for up to a 3yr deal)
13. Vet min (Gabriel?) 2.1m
14. Vet min (TBJr?) 2.1m
= 184.3m in team salary
= 66.425m in associated repeater taxes (ie 20.3m* over 165m tax line)
~ 250m total

*rookie min counts as 2.1m (2yr seasoned vet min) towards luxury tax math

Fyi: we’re projected to pay just under 36m in taxes for this season as a nonrepeater
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:17 pm    Post subject:

^^^ I'm really confused. According to CRoost we are paying $100 million in repeater tax no matter what.

On a serious note though V, I have to agree that I don't think they need to use the hard-cap as an excuse to avoid spending. It's probably a moot point because the average Laker fan probably won't complain about why we let players like Mo/Beas/Rui who have been disappointing and/or invisible. I hope their play moving forward changes that perception but that's probably how things stand now.

Fans will probably be more upset about losing DLO/AR/Dennis and as it stands the Lakers should be able to give them all fair contracts while staying comfortably under the hard cap if they needed to.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:17 pm    Post subject:

vasashi17+ wrote:
And in yet another round of #playingw/#s…I’m your Vashed up host & resident cap monger with today’s question…

Will the Lakers pay up for a team where we bring back our pending FAs on favorable team deals (ie DLo takes a sizable haircut off his true max, Reaves gets his full early bird max and we duck a potential poison pill offersheet, Rui gets the ntpMLE amount matched by us that he potentially could get on the open market) while bringing back our nonguaranteed/option contracts (ie Mo & Vando) for the hope of trading them for better fitting players later in the season (if not salary dumped)?

1. Bron 47.6m
2. AD 40.6m
3. DLo 25m (via a new favorable full bird deal for up to a 5yr deal)
4. Beas 16.5m (via team option exercised)
5. Reaves 11.9m (via early bird max for up to a 4yr deal)
6. Rui 11.6m (via a new favorable full bird deal for up to a 5yr deal)
7. Mo 10.3m (via retaining nonguaranteed deal)
8. MLE FA (Schro?) 6.1m (via majority of tpMLE for up to a 3yr deal)
9. Vando 4.7m (via retaining partially guaranteed deal)
10. MaxC 1.7m
11. 2023 1st pick swap ~3m
12. 2023 2nd 1.1m* (via minority of tpMLE for up to a 3yr deal)
13. Vet min (Gabriel?) 2.1m
14. Vet min (TBJr?) 2.1m
= 184.3m in team salary
= 66.425m in associated repeater taxes (ie 20.3m* over 165m tax line)
~ 250m total

*rookie min counts as 2.1m (2yr seasoned vet min) towards luxury tax math

Fyi: we’re projected to pay just under 36m in taxes for this season as a nonrepeater


Thank you! Based on those numbers I don’t believe they’ll retain Beaz at that price (Christie and Reaves will be playing next year) or Rui when you can get a similiar if not better player in the draft. Just my opinion.
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I think this applies most to Bamba. 6th player picked. 7’10 wingspan, can knock down a 3 and definitely can protect the rim. There’s no one like him in the draft compared to a ton of athletic 6’6 - 6’9 athletic wings. And again with AD more than likely having surgery in the off season…Bamba is more of a need and Pelinka finally got him after pursuing him for 2 years.


I have no idea what will happen with Bamba. It wouldn't shock me to see him be a luxury tax casualty.


They got a peak at what their options are without him. Tristian Thompson and Tony Bradley. I think they keep him, tbh.


I’m pretty sure that there will be other backup centers available in the offseason.
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I think this applies most to Bamba. 6th player picked. 7’10 wingspan, can knock down a 3 and definitely can protect the rim. There’s no one like him in the draft compared to a ton of athletic 6’6 - 6’9 athletic wings. And again with AD more than likely having surgery in the off season…Bamba is more of a need and Pelinka finally got him after pursuing him for 2 years.


I have no idea what will happen with Bamba. It wouldn't shock me to see him be a luxury tax casualty.


They got a peak at what their options are without him. Tristian Thompson and Tony Bradley. I think they keep him, tbh.



Really? That we can afford? Sure if you like Len, Zeller, Bobo, Garza, Mo Wagner, Kaminsky, Biyombo, clowns like this. All others will cost more than Bamba.
I’m pretty sure that there will be other backup centers available in the offseason.
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King Randle wrote:


I think this applies most to Bamba. 6th player picked. 7’10 wingspan, can knock down a 3 and definitely can protect the rim. There’s no one like him in the draft compared to a ton of athletic 6’6 - 6’9 athletic wings. And again with AD more than likely having surgery in the off season…Bamba is more of a need and Pelinka finally got him after pursuing him for 2 years.


I have no idea what will happen with Bamba. It wouldn't shock me to see him be a luxury tax casualty.


They got a peak at what their options are without him. Tristian Thompson and Tony Bradley. I think they keep him, tbh.


I’m pretty sure that there will be other backup centers available in the offseason.


Really? That we can afford? Sure if you like Len, Zeller, Bobo, Garza, Mo Wagner, Kaminsky, Biyombo, clowns like this. All others will cost more than Bamba.
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For those of you who still dream about Ben Simmons (if any of you are left):

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"Ben will not be joining us the rest of the year and through the playoffs," Vaughn said after practice. "After consulting with our doctors, multiple specialists, he's just going to begin a rehab program. Our doctors and the specialists feel and think that he'll have a full recovery so that starts now."


https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35981207/brooklyn-nets-shutting-ben-simmons-rest-season


i'd take him for the vet min after his max contract is finished
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vasashi17+ wrote:
And in yet another round of #playingw/#s…I’m your Vashed up host & resident cap monger with today’s question…

Will the Lakers pay up for a team where we bring back our pending FAs on favorable team deals (snip)

(unsnip)
= 184.3m in team salary
= 66.425m in associated repeater taxes (ie 20.3m* over 165m tax line)
~ 250m total


No, I don't think that the front office would do that. Setting aside the possibility of making some huge move (Harden, Irving, whatever), I think that we'll make some moves with net salary outflow. This could include waiving Bamba and offering him a smaller contract, trading Beasley for a cheaper player, etc. I won't sidetrack the discussion by getting into all of those possibilities. My bottom line answer is that they will not spend that much on payroll for this roster.

Frankly, I wouldn't blame Jeanie if this turns out to be the case. It wouldn't be a contending roster, unless you believe that Lebron and Davis will magically stay healthy all year and through the playoffs. I expect that the team would perform much the way that it is performing now. We'd have a winning record. We'd probably be good enough to avoid the play-in. We could make the second round of the playoffs. But we wouldn't be a serious threat to win the title.

We have to hope that the trade deadline deals are a sign that Pelinka was cleaning out an unused desk drawer and found Mitch's old magic wand. He could wave the wand and say, "Accio, Luka!" Short of something like that, I expect that we'll make moves to cut down the payroll.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 4:04 pm    Post subject:

vasashi17+ wrote:
Before all the trades, we had an expiring Russ, PatBev, JTA, TB and Nunn. The only guy potentially leaking into next year’s salary sheet was Damien’s 2.6m via player option. We swapped that for essentially all expirings in DLo, Beas (via team option), Mo (nonguaranteed), Rui (renounce as RFA), Reed (nonguaranteed) and Vando (only 300k guaranteed if waived).

We targeted only expiring / short term deals with the ability to flex into extending them and we gave up the 2027 1st to do that.

The kicker is that we literally dumped PatBev. We had enough salary to swap Nunn for Rui and TB for Reed. We had enough salary in Russ/Damien to get DLo, Beas, Mo & Vando.

Instead we set up 2 multiteam trades with a 3teamer (w/Minny & Utah) & 4teamer (w/Orlando, Denver & cLips), when we had the means to just include Orlando into the Utah/Minny trade where we walk away with at least a tax-free 13m TPE in dumping PatBev.

That at least indicates to me that we made all those trades to give us the best chance in competing this year, while also creating the type of flexibility needed to address the offseason under different scenarios (ie as a cap having vs a cap strapped team).

But for a team that is sincerely trying to make a run at it this year, why dump a player like PatBev, when we had a 15th roster spot and you need a defensive oriented pest like that to take advantage of the postseason?

Answer is pretty $imple…even as a nonrepeat tax offender this year, dude woulda cost us nearly 50m in additional taxes. We are currently paying about 36m in taxes for our 14 man roster. If PatBev (and his 13m deal) were still here occupying that 15th roster spot (and impacting our books), our taxes would be about 87m.

So for those thinking our ownership/FO will run it back with these players next year on anywhere close to their max amounts…fogeddaboutit! They wanted no part of a 85m tax bill this year, so I highly doubt they’ll be about it next season.

Our FAs would need to give us discounts for us to expect running this team back. This is why I do believe they will take the hardcap triggering route in order to give them an out from paying a ma$$ive tax bill. Even tho I’m personally against it, I really do expect them to bring in a S&t’d player and/or ntpMLE/BAE players. That way, they only looking at 18m in taxes even as a repeat tax offender (the maxed out projection of the 172m hardcap apron is only 7m above the 165m tax line).

What’s wild to me is that they didn’t try harder to gain a tax-free TPE in dumping PatBev. But if that were the case, they had to operate as a capped out team this offseason in order to retain it. They would have had to renounce the TPE if they wanted to play the cap space game. So maybe that’s a tell in how they looking to operate this summer.


Great analysis, as always.

But.......who bleeping cares anymore?! Not worth the time until more competent folks are running the $how.
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I think this applies most to Bamba. 6th player picked. 7’10 wingspan, can knock down a 3 and definitely can protect the rim. There’s no one like him in the draft compared to a ton of athletic 6’6 - 6’9 athletic wings. And again with AD more than likely having surgery in the off season…Bamba is more of a need and Pelinka finally got him after pursuing him for 2 years.


I have no idea what will happen with Bamba. It wouldn't shock me to see him be a luxury tax casualty.


They got a peak at what their options are without him. Tristian Thompson and Tony Bradley. I think they keep him, tbh.


I’m pretty sure that there will be other backup centers available in the offseason.


Really? That we can afford? Sure if you like Len, Zeller, Bobo, Garza, Mo Wagner, Kaminsky, Biyombo, clowns like this. All others will cost more than Bamba.


All are better fits than Thompson and Bradley.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 4:44 pm    Post subject:

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vasashi17+ wrote:
And in yet another round of #playingw/#s…I’m your Vashed up host & resident cap monger with today’s question…

Will the Lakers pay up for a team where we bring back our pending FAs on favorable team deals (snip)

(unsnip)
= 184.3m in team salary
= 66.425m in associated repeater taxes (ie 20.3m* over 165m tax line)
~ 250m total


No, I don't think that the front office would do that. Setting aside the possibility of making some huge move (Harden, Irving, whatever), I think that we'll make some moves with net salary outflow. This could include waiving Bamba and offering him a smaller contract, trading Beasley for a cheaper player, etc. I won't sidetrack the discussion by getting into all of those possibilities. My bottom line answer is that they will not spend that much on payroll for this roster.

Frankly, I wouldn't blame Jeanie if this turns out to be the case. It wouldn't be a contending roster, unless you believe that Lebron and Davis will magically stay healthy all year and through the playoffs. I expect that the team would perform much the way that it is performing now. We'd have a winning record. We'd probably be good enough to avoid the play-in. We could make the second round of the playoffs. But we wouldn't be a serious threat to win the title.

We have to hope that the trade deadline deals are a sign that Pelinka was cleaning out an unused desk drawer and found Mitch's old magic wand. He could wave the wand and say, "Accio, Luka!" Short of something like that, I expect that we'll make moves to cut down the payroll.


It's also the incremental cost of some of these guys. Once you add in the luxury tax, keeping a Beasley or Bamba might cost an extra $50 million. It's one thing to pay that much if you are getting a Kevin Durant. I don't know that you are willing to write that kind of check for a backup center or run-of-the-mill shooting guard.
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