02-11-2021, 08:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-11-2021, 08:27 AM by HanspardShowerVoice.)
(02-11-2021, 01:59 AM)omahen Wrote: Atlanta has 100 mil committed to 11 players in 2021. Add Collins at 27 and they are still comfortably under the tax. Gallo last year is not guaranteed. So he comes off the books in 2022 when Young max extension kicks in. Since Rondo and Dunn are off the books than too, Atlanta is still comfortably under the tax.
I will just repeat. Collins will certainly get a max offer (unless everyone is sure Atlanta will match anything, so no one will even bother). If Atlanta is not willing to pay the max, they are trading him this TDL. I bet Atlanta takes the gamble, hopes they can resign him for less, but if not, they will pay him max. They can always trade him.
Right. Regardless of their current Atlanta roster construction or where else they've allocated money or draft picks, the bottomline is that Collins is a premium asset and you don't let a premium asset slip through your fingers unless getting an equivalent (or better) premium asset in return. Same thing with Lavine.
Even if the KP trade doesn't work out as well as we would hope, I still think that trade has spoiled us as to the realities of the league. Most NBA Franchises are run by smart front offices now. The Knicks are/were excpetionally poorly run, but even they might be better run under their new management. Look at the huge hauls that teams are getting for good players. Even non All NBA players like Jrue Holiday demand a king's ransom. Teams expect to be compensated properly for assets. I think the Mavs possible upgrades are going to have to come through free agency in the summmer, by finding people who could possibly overplay their contract ... either take a chance on an aging player that they might play longer at a premium level than anticipated, or take a chance on youth that they might grow into a better player that the market currently values them. Unfortunately, this is a hard game to play.