(09-15-2020, 11:05 AM)StepBackJay Wrote: Well look some will, some won't. Last year the Suns gave the Pacers TJ Warren and the #32 pick just to clear his salary off the books.
Are you reading what I wrote? I clearly said, there are two exemptions where teams give away players. Clear cap or avoid salary. The example you keep pushing with Bledsoe example is that someone will give away player just because he is not on a good contract. Milwaukee will never trade Bledsoe for a Wright and Jackson type of contracts. NEVER! They want to improve, not get worse. They have picks and young players to add to receive a much better player to replace Bledsoe. If Bledsoe is traded (for example) to OKC, they again have absolutely no need to trade him for Wright and Jackson. Memphis was ok with Iguodala not playing at all for them and they still didn't just let him go for a bunch of nothing. It will not happen, forget it. Either you are cool paying a pick for Bledsoe or you think he is not worth it and you will not get it. I mean, if we would be speaking about someone totally unplayable vet min guy at best like Waiters contract in Miami, than Wright and Jackson is a fair offer. But we can agree Bledsoe is on a totally different level, despite his offensive shortcomings.
(09-15-2020, 11:05 AM)StepBackJay Wrote: If you have the ability to absorb money that they want to shed
We don't have this ability. You are not offering to take player in the cap space, you are offering Wright and Jackson bad contracts in return, saving the trading partner a couple of millions.
(09-15-2020, 11:29 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: Don't flame me, but are we still sure about the conventional wisdom that "Cuban is willing to spend whatever it takes to win"???
While we most likely won't be in tax next season, Cuban could give a nice signal he is willing to spend, if he uses the five million cash for something. Either to buy a pick or facilitate a trade.
Last offseason was sort of "let's see where we are with these guys season". I think now they have to do a step or two to improve. If they do it while keeping flexibility, I am fine. If they just stand pat and avoid deals that add to cap because they want to keep flexibility, I will be mad.
As Dan already said. If the cap stays at 109 next season, we have just 25 million of cap space, some 10 million short of max contract. That is after THJ, Jackson, WCS and Bobi are gone, we don't sign any long term guy for MLE and we don't sign any rookies in 2020 and 2021. Basically we need to dump another two guys to have max space. Is it really wort it for Giannis pipedream? I would ignore it and clear cap when he would say he wants to come in 2021