08-07-2021, 10:40 AM
I tried to point this out a couple of days ago. Dragic at $19mm can play and can be a big expiring deal at the TDL. The other option is to pay $19mm and have neither of those things. Even the play where Dragic takes a $9.5mm discount and signs here for the MLE means Toronto is spending $10mm for nothing. Why not pay the $10mm spread for something. They knew the position they were in when they agreed to the deal. I don’t think they made a mistake. But no one knows if the $19mm expiring deal will be useful until he can no longer be used as a trade chip or S&T chip (next summer).