ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

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Beyond that, I don't think there's an avenue for LA to really fit Kyrie under a hard cap, for practical purposes.

Reaves is a MUST sign for them, almost certainly as a RFA-match. They are out of other options, since they can't offer him more than 12M outright, which also shuts them out of using him as a SNT piece (unless you think he'll accept 12M or less to be sent to play elsewhere).

Once you add Reaves (20?) and Kyrie (40?) to LBJ and AD's existing deals, and add 11 players making minimum, you are at the hard cap or slightly over. Even if they can squeeze in all 4 players, I think they'd see that as a non-starter of a roster.

I´m honestly a little too lazy to look into all these new CBA rules, when proposing trades, but since you shut down so many basic trades ideas on it´s general principles, it becomes more and more obvious to me that you´ll have to rely on cheap rookies more and more or there will be a hefty salary correction for the middle of the NBA player pool.

Seems that retaining your own players will become a high priority. Damn that Brunson blunder hurts in so many ways. Don´t trade the 10th pick for a Clint Capela. Sure could be a bust. Could also be PG13, Mikael Bridges, Brook Lopez, CJ McCollum under your control for the next decade.

I also have a feeling some teams will do a Process, reserve 6-7 roster spots (including two-ways) for undrafted/2nd round picks and try to find Covingtons.