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[mvossman]

It's $5.5, $5.7, and $6 million per year.  That's what?  $3 million above a vet min?  Even if he plays himself into a bunch of DNPs by year 2 or 3 it's not exactly going to be a boat anchor, and he could easily fit in for salary matching in various trade scenarios.

My problem with this mentality is that when this mistake is repeated regularly you start running into cap and tax issues and next thing you know the owner is letting the second best player on the team walk because he is choking on the tax bill (I'm not saying that is the only reason Brunson walked).  When we continually do unnecessary contracts like Powell, Burke, Brown, Boban, McGee it adds up.