08-23-2022, 04:01 AM
Where your math is wrong? I dunno. You left out something considerable. I think you're confused over what numbers are included or excluded in various totals being given by others. Just use a calculator and do the math.
I don't want to list all the players and salaries. But you have all the numbers you need.
1 No cap holds for free agents. Just ignore that.
2 Add up the now-existing salaries that you assume would remain. There are 7, I think.
3 Add in projected extensions (2) for Wood-Kleber. I pencil in 27M with 16-17 for Wood, 10-11 for Maxi.
....NOTE - I think your 7M number to extend Maxi has no chance of being a deal. His skill set is a stretchy shot-blocking perimeter-defending 4/5, just the right sort you want to put around Luka, and a raise of some sort is way more likely than a pay cut. If you don't get an extension done, I think someone offers him MLE and you're left a really hard-to-fill hole. The limit on an extension for him, 10.8M, is a just-under-MLE number and imo makes the number easier when you have a cap. If he'll sign for millions less, sure, but I can't imagine that flying.
4 Then add in 1.1 M for each empty slot (3) until you get 12 slots full all together.
When you total it up, the leftover cap room is way less than the MLE.
I don't want to list all the players and salaries. But you have all the numbers you need.
1 No cap holds for free agents. Just ignore that.
2 Add up the now-existing salaries that you assume would remain. There are 7, I think.
3 Add in projected extensions (2) for Wood-Kleber. I pencil in 27M with 16-17 for Wood, 10-11 for Maxi.
....NOTE - I think your 7M number to extend Maxi has no chance of being a deal. His skill set is a stretchy shot-blocking perimeter-defending 4/5, just the right sort you want to put around Luka, and a raise of some sort is way more likely than a pay cut. If you don't get an extension done, I think someone offers him MLE and you're left a really hard-to-fill hole. The limit on an extension for him, 10.8M, is a just-under-MLE number and imo makes the number easier when you have a cap. If he'll sign for millions less, sure, but I can't imagine that flying.
4 Then add in 1.1 M for each empty slot (3) until you get 12 slots full all together.
When you total it up, the leftover cap room is way less than the MLE.
* Dumont reportedly "has no problem going into next year with a healthy AD and a healthy Kyrie with Cooper Flagg and seeing what it looks like."
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