07-11-2025, 01:18 PM
(07-11-2025, 12:53 PM)F Gump Wrote: 1 Yes they make an announcement when an extension is signed, with bells and whistles. No Gafford news yet. No way to know why it has not yet happened. There can be delays for mundane reasons, sometimes, but no way to know what this is.
2 Exum cannot be signed until they move a player (ie salary) off the roster somehow. They are hard-capped at A2 and close to it. No room for another salary, even at the minimum. We've discussed this at length already.
Training camp bodies don't count against the cap until regular season (if they are still on the roster), so those don't matter.
For point 1, I'd caution folks not to fret or dream up convoluted reasons. To add to your point, it could literally be anything. Like, Gafford might just be in Cancun on vacation and they literally just might not have found a convenient time for him to sign yet.
I have a question about point 2. I heard Stein say that Exum can be signed without the move that makes it legal being made. His point at the time was along the lines of your "camp bodies" point, as in they can sign Exum and then figure out how to make it all legal by the cutdown date, which raised an eyebrow from me. I'm assuming he's wrong, and there's some type of financial or contractual stylistic differentiator between Exum's situation and those camp body types, but can you clarify that a bit?