05-05-2023, 05:12 PM
(05-05-2023, 08:13 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: I wouldn't sleep on the possibility of a Paul retirement.
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If they S/W his guarantee, its only $3.16mm per year for five years.
That's an interesting idea, that PHX and CP would do a waive-and-retire. But if he is waived, I wonder, would he be more likely to want to retire, or to pursue another paycheck in free agency? IOW, isn't there a real chance CP gets waived, but as a PHX "time for a change" decision, with no window dressing of it being a retirement?
That question doesn't really change the result for PHX, of course. Either way, the payroll math changes in their favor.
(An accounting note - a SW of CP would be over 3 years at $5.267M per, which still makes a significant difference).
Followup question - would CP make sense in Dallas for 2 years at full MLE, alongside Luka, if Kyrie was S&T'ed somewhere?