06-13-2021, 03:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-13-2021, 03:50 PM by StepBackJay.)
(06-13-2021, 03:29 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Their plan would be to hang onto his $4.7mm hold, grab a center with space and sign Graham above the cap. Yes, Graham is restricted, but if a team signs him to an offer, they can't match AND get their center. They only have $20.6mm to work with if you assume they want to keep the Graham hold, the Martin brothers and Jalen McDaniels (and I do). BTW, that $20.6mm in space does not include the cost of their pick. They are walking away from holds on Monk, Zeller and Biyombo in this scenario.
Hornets will probably have an offer to Holmes at the opening of FA don't you think? Teams have a few days I think to match RFA sheets which is plenty of time to ink deals. A lot of the bigger deals happen within hours or even minutes.
Also I would think if Hornets for sure what to keep Graham they can go ahead and give him a competitive or above market offer to try to prevent him from signing an offer sheet somewhere.
To me Graham is gettable in that Hornets have a surplus of guards and as you say Mavs could hand them a suitable replacement in J Rich.
At any rate the basic framework of what you are saying makes sense to me and really narrows the list of real offseason targets to 1 MLE guy + 1 traded player on top of resigning THJ + any other player Mavs want to keep (eg WCS).