08-05-2021, 04:53 PM
mavsluvr Wrote: [url=https://www.mavsboard.com/showthread.php?pid=102289#pid102289][/url]It seems like if any team is in a box, it's Toronto. They're the ones who agreed to take on an old backup guard on a wildly inflated salary, and are now scrambling to find a way out of it.
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Beg to differ. First, as I mentioned previously, Toronto has tons of options.
Also, they didn't "agree to take" Dragic. No one forced them to do anything. Toronto traded for him - and his guaranteed contract - with eyes wide open. There is no way they're "scrambling to find a way out" of a deal they haven't even officially completed.
Moreover, I don't know where this idea that Dragic's contract is wildly inflated came from. He signed the contract years ago and he's never been considered overpaid. Miami simply picked up the last year option. Sure, $19 million is starter money ... but he started half of Miami's playoff games last year and average 29 MIN which would be among top five if he played for the Mavs. For comparison, JRich got 13 MIN in the playoffs last year. Dragic is not some washed-up dead weight contract.
I guess maybe your point is, if Dragic were a free agent today, a new deal might start between the full MLE and his current deal. But he's not a free agent, so it doesn't matter.
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Beg to differ. First, as I mentioned previously, Toronto has tons of options.
Also, they didn't "agree to take" Dragic. No one forced them to do anything. Toronto traded for him - and his guaranteed contract - with eyes wide open. There is no way they're "scrambling to find a way out" of a deal they haven't even officially completed.
Moreover, I don't know where this idea that Dragic's contract is wildly inflated came from. He signed the contract years ago and he's never been considered overpaid. Miami simply picked up the last year option. Sure, $19 million is starter money ... but he started half of Miami's playoff games last year and average 29 MIN which would be among top five if he played for the Mavs. For comparison, JRich got 13 MIN in the playoffs last year. Dragic is not some washed-up dead weight contract.
I guess maybe your point is, if Dragic were a free agent today, a new deal might start between the full MLE and his current deal. But he's not a free agent, so it doesn't matter.