06-12-2021, 01:48 PM
(06-12-2021, 12:18 PM)StepBackJay Wrote: @"loki" I don't agree. Hawks have a lot of contracts on the books with additional big deals in the way. A max Collins deal plus a max Trae extension is going to put them deep into luxury tax 1 yr from now unless they start finding ways to shed money. Hunter, Huerter will get paid in a couple years. So somebody is getting moved unless they want to have a 170 million dollar cap sheet.
Now they could move a guy like Gallo but maybe they don't want to. He is a guy you could keep one more year and then move. Maxi is an example of a cheap rotation player. So I don't think it's a done deal at all that they want to match a max offer especially if they don't get past the Sixers.
It was pretty public that Collins was available for the right price at the TDL. I don't think he was moved bc they knew the same type of offers would still be there in the summer.
I agree they're going to have to make some tough decisions, but I don't see Collins at 28M vs Collins at 22.5M being where they line they draw in the sand. If they had only offered him 70/4 I might believe in it a bit more. I guess we'll find out.