8 hours ago
(Yesterday, 12:58 PM)F Gump Wrote: To me, this feels like an unsaid "we will have room if we can find someone to take Martin, and we are still trying to find that taker."
While I find DS's idea intriguing, a closer look at DET payroll shows they are not at all in a payroll squeeze. Without Duren, they are only at about 154M incl DR, and adding Duren at 200M still leaves them more than 10M below the tax.
But the dream would be to find some other team who would want CM.
I didn't mention this the other day, but I had a scenario where Robinson was the outgoing from Detroit with Duren needed to match Sabonis - but at an adjusted guarantee rather than his full salary. He comes here and Martin goes to Sacramento. It does feel like paying $1.0mm for three weeks work isn't the most likely scenario. I also don't believe they move on from any of the younger guys. So, Martin is the logical one, but how?
Right now they need Powell just to run three groups of five in scrimmages with Gafford running first unit in the videos I've seen, Powell with the second unit and Cicce with the babies.