01-15-2025, 05:55 PM
"Bucks Are Trying To Find A Taker for Pat Connaughton"
I don't think this was discussed, but it's hard to imagine this happening. The idea that MIL, who is over the 2nd apron, and needs to remove about $6.5M in salary to get below the line, wants to have someone take him off their hands? Of course. But PC is of no value, he is making about $9.5M, and he has a player option for another season.
It certainly makes sense that MIL or another team wants to shed some salary. In MIL's case, if they could do this, it leaves some cap space to refill the empty roster slot, they would escape the Apron 2 draft pick penalty, and they would save (very rough estimate) $30-35M in salary/tax payments this season alone.
As for which teams will take salary that another team wants to shed, that's not as easy to see. Using spotrac numbers, only DET has open cap room (every other team is over the cap). Some teams have decent size trade exceptions but far fewer would take added salary because they are dealing with aprons and taxes of their own. Are there few enough takers that it will lead to a sort of bidding war by the multiple teams who want to shed salary?
I don't think this was discussed, but it's hard to imagine this happening. The idea that MIL, who is over the 2nd apron, and needs to remove about $6.5M in salary to get below the line, wants to have someone take him off their hands? Of course. But PC is of no value, he is making about $9.5M, and he has a player option for another season.
It certainly makes sense that MIL or another team wants to shed some salary. In MIL's case, if they could do this, it leaves some cap space to refill the empty roster slot, they would escape the Apron 2 draft pick penalty, and they would save (very rough estimate) $30-35M in salary/tax payments this season alone.
As for which teams will take salary that another team wants to shed, that's not as easy to see. Using spotrac numbers, only DET has open cap room (every other team is over the cap). Some teams have decent size trade exceptions but far fewer would take added salary because they are dealing with aprons and taxes of their own. Are there few enough takers that it will lead to a sort of bidding war by the multiple teams who want to shed salary?
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