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Spotrac has it just working out with Kyrie at 40 Mio.

You'd be at 10 players and 160 Mio than. I'd rather work with that than waiving 17 Mio.

What am I missing?

" You'd be at 10 players and 160 M ... What am I missing"

The Apron 1 hard cap (which you must stay under when using the big MLE) will be right about 170M.

10 existing players (which includes Pick 10, I trust) total 154M. But leaving one slot for the MLE use, the 4 other slots, paid the very minimum, each cost $2M in apron accounting, so you are at 162M. You can't spend right up to the hard cap because of what might happen injury-wise.

So that's maybe 6-6.5-7M you can use, and aggressive roster trickery over the entire season (if you have the expert) might free another 1M maybe. Maybe.