02-03-2025, 12:30 PM
(02-02-2025, 06:16 PM)BigDirk41 Wrote: What salary can we get to without trading AD, Kyrie, or PJ? I fully expect everyone else to be available by Nico and ...
If you go to extremes, and keep only the top end of the roster (Kyrie, AD, PJW, Gaff, Lively, Klay, Christie) and everyone else is sent out the door, you have 7 players and about 141.15M in payroll, with a hard cap limit of 176.63M.
That's about 35.5M, but you have to add 7 players, not just 1.
It takes a lot of bodies outgoing, which makes the trade hard on the other team's roster, so you have to work through that issue too. IOW not very practical - but if they work it hard enough, they may have some angles to put together a package to work with. For example, what would a package of Naji-Grimes-Hardy get you? The salary outgoing is about 15M, which means they could probably take back a 20M player and leave room under the hard cap to add 2 other bodies.
If they are committed to staying under the tax line, the limits are much smaller. They are under right now, but not sure that's their limit if they can find the right player to add. I suspect they are looking hard for one more player, preferably a 2-way player that is good on defense AND can create some offense.