07-01-2023, 01:01 PM
(07-01-2023, 11:50 AM)SkenfromLMF Wrote: You are missing a minute point regarding Powell. He will NOT count against the MLE no matter how much he makes. He is a Bird Rights Free Agent and as such will not take up ANY of the MLE.....
"He will NOT count against the MLE ..."
Actually he will (as they are currently situated), in a very real way, just not in the way you are thinking.
The size of Powell's deal has to fit under the hard cap, along with the full MLE. As Powell's salary gets bigger, the MLE will have to get smaller. (The same math issue applies to using Wood in a snt trade or not - the total dollars available are limited, so spending more in one place means you are left with less to spend in a different place.)
If they make a trade using existing contracts, the math will change and the available dollars will be different, of course, But as they stand, in a real sense, Powell's dollars will definitely impact whether they can spend full MLE or not.