08-26-2022, 06:10 PM
(08-26-2022, 10:55 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: Other thing to consider with Bertans is his requirement to make his last year $5M guaranteed. Might as well get him ready for playing closer to 25% of games now so he’s used to it the following year. He’s an injury insurance player and sunk cost in my mind. No need to give him minutes cause his tradability will not stem from his on court play, he’ll be essentially a salary matching expiring contract when we get all our firsts next year.
The "insurance" and the sunk cost ideas do make sense, and are certainly the most likely outcome for Bertans.
But his guarantee-related threshold next season is 75% (ie, he must play 62 games) not 25%. Finding 21 DNPs for some reason or another next season shouldn't be hard. And with such an easy limit, he's likely very tradable as trade filler without the other team having to worry about another fully guaranteed year getting added.
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