(01-20-2026, 01:01 PM)Smitty Wrote: I think you're missing McGee and Omax in your numbers, which brings it to $204,748,448. Spotrac shows them being $16,985,418 over. So, Martin + Russell don't get you there in this?
Bummer. My bad.
Once you increase the needed outgoing, it gets clunkier, because BKN only has a limited amount of cap room to work with.
Their easiest payroll solution, going all the way back to the summer, has been to get rid of Martin and Hardy contracts. We hoped to see that move. Nothing happened.
That's still the solution imo, but it takes a really good GM to figure out how to make that happen.
My personal mindset on salary-dumping deals. If they wanted to shed salary in a deal with a good talent outgoing (for example, AD, Klay, Gaff, Naji), I would want them to demand the inclusion of one of those 3 bad contracts (Martin, Hardy, DAR) as a condition for doing business. There's no roster-building value in getting under the tax line by keeping the scrubs and being stripped bare of all the talent.
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