03-31-2021, 08:50 AM
(03-31-2021, 08:33 AM)mvossman Wrote: They said that about this coming free agency. Then everybody extended and it went to crap. There is no reason to limit the years on contracts getting signed. Contracts can generally be dumped fairly easily (especially if they are expiring) unless they are terrible.
I just hope they learned their lesson from a couple years ago and collude with the agents better before free agency officially starts. If they can land a Lowery or Conley in free agency, then they should be ready to pull the trigger immediately and do what they can to retain one of THJ/JRich. If not, they need to do everything they can to get those guys on semi reasonable contracts.
To your first point I agree that getting excited ab any future big free agency is folly bc free agency imo is all but dead at this point. We have seen that the best players now get moved to their preferred destination before free agency hits. There is sort of a middle class of free agents that include older players (Walker, Horford in the recent past) or good-not-great (Brog, Gallo, etc) that are gettable all the way down to the lower class of guys that are always available. For that reason we need to stop getting excited about big free agents coming to Dallas. We couldn't even get Walker or Danny Green to come here.
To your second point I disagree that years don't matter. I actually believe years on deals are way more important than the dollars. I think in terms of risk profile it's almost impossible to get burned on a 2 year deal. I don't care how much it costs. In the NBA having a large expiring contract is valuable. What this means is that you have 1 year to see if that player fits your team, if so great you have them another year and they are a trade asset. If they are so terrible that they are worthless their contract has value up until the trade deadline. Chances are you can move that contract and if it really is a high dollar deal it means that the player probably has enough talent that they won't go from worth big money to completely worthless in 12 months. Worst case scenario they are a sunk cost for that second year, you can't find a trade even as filler and you buy that person out.
I think even the worst case scenario isn't too likely bc chances are you would have the ability to get another potential buy-out guy instead of buying out your player. Mavs for example probably get Drummond if they had 30 mil dollars of purely filler.
Where I get nervous are 3-4 year deals. You have to be really confident in that player and the contract amount to ink those deals.