07-03-2024, 08:41 PM
(07-03-2024, 08:30 PM)Smitty Wrote: Whoa. I didn’t expect that question after all the Maxi discussion earlier. No I would not be okay with it. Dumping Maxi to sign Markieff doesn’t make them a better basketball team. And I don’t care about the tax or repeater tax or frankly anything that costs the new owner money. There’s no real penalty to team building, being over the tax line. Only the first and second apron.
Edit: But could we see Powell gone??
Just musing.
I agree, of course, that Kleber makes them better, and they've given us no reason to believe that anything other than competing is their goal this season. But, I do think there's tremendous value in avoiding the tax where you can, so I guess if we imagine they see Kleber the way ChicagoJK suggested, that would be very tempting.
I could be wrong, but I don't think Powell gets you below the tax line, even dumped for air, considering you would then have to sign two vet minimums. It could be a solution to the original question YOU posed, I suppose, right? I actually think he's a pretty good value contract for an emergency big you can trust and one of those "doesn't complain" end of bench guys we've been talking about.