(01-17-2020, 06:19 AM)aguiar95 Wrote: DAL: Drummond, Rose.
DET: Wright, Brunson, Lee, 2020 GSW 2nd.
That trade leaves us with 108M guaranteed of contracts on 13 players (I'm including our 2020 1st pick, Roby and Jackson). Assuming he opts out, can we sign him in the summer? That trade would leave us only 8M under the cap having to resign only Drummond. Do we get another MLE (used on Curry last year) or BAE (used on Boban)?
We would be locked into Doncic/THJ/DFS/KP/Drummond/Rose/Curry/Jackson or 1st/Kleber/Powell. With the way they are playing, is this roster a championship caliber team?
I was curious too and did a bit of a deep dive.
The BAE is not an option since we used it this season. We very well should get the full MLE again as long as we stay under the luxury tax level.
At the moment the salary cap for next year is estimated at 116 mil with a luxury tax number of 141 mil
I haven't been able to find the situational hardcap estimate for 2020-21
For comparison this season the luxury tax was 132.6 mil with a situational hard cap of $138,928,000 so around 6 mil more.
The reason I brought that up is this
"When a club uses the bi-annual exception, acquires a player via sign-and-trade, or uses more than the taxpayer portion ($5,718,000) of the mid-level exception, that club will face a hard cap for the remainder of the league year."
https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2019/08/nba-...01920.html
So in theory you'd be able to sign Drummond for 30 mil and sign an MLE guy for around 10 mil while staying right up under that hardcap of around 148 mil (my estimate)
But man I hope we don't go there. I don't see Drummond pushing us into that LA level