Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[loki]

Thank you for taking the time to outline all of that. In general, I don't have any quibble with the payroll numbers (227M) or the roster assumption (filling 14 slots). I think those are the likely landing spots on the present trajectory.

I did not tell Google to use repeater rates, and that is the difference between your number and theirs.

But I do have a small quibble. Your numbers aren't actually 150M. 119M is still a big number, but 150 is over 25% bigger. 

One other thing to mention. It doesn't take massive cuts to payroll to lower that tax number. If DAR can be persuaded to leave (or traded at the TDL for an expiring), the tax is down to about 98M. Find a way to move Hardy and it's down to about 71M. Still big numbers, but not disastrous.

No problem! I think I mentioned $150M in that post because I happened to have the 3rd pick plugged into my spreadsheet at the time instead of the 8th. When you're that deep in the tax that's all it takes to swing the outcome pretty wildly. Which as you point out can be a good thing when you're trying to cut. Hopefully they can find takers for some of the deadweight soon.