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I think Bagley commands more than the Vet Min, so I don't see keeping him as a 3rd string Center.  He stays if Gafford goes (my preference would be to trade Gafford for a 2027 pick or Gafford plus #30 to move up in the 2026 draft)

I think Middleton is the best logical starter next to Flagg from among Naji, PJ and Middleton.  I think he gets a good chunk of the MLE, but not over it (so he can be traded into an exception).  I'd seek to do this as a TO for 27/28. 

We are at 150M right now. Add 10M for the draft picks, 15M for the full MLE =175M. 1st apron is 210M. Can´t we sign Middleton with Non-Bird Rights up to nearly 40M a year? The bigger problem seems that Bagley´s max salary is like 2.7M. If anything we´d have to use part of an exception on Bagley. Theoretically we could also use the TPE to sign Simons or Sexton over the MLE. That could give us a small salary edge over other MLE teams.