05-08-2023, 02:18 PM
(05-08-2023, 01:26 PM)omahen Wrote: Not necessarily. They can eat the 7 mil in one year, or stretch it over three. Unless they find his contract usable in the trade, I think it makes most sense for them to just eat those 7 mil this year and be done with it, keeping books clean for the future. Or even if he is traded, I would assume it as very likely the buyer will waive him. I am not sure a contender is willing to take his 17 mil.Ok, I thought it had to be a stretch waive, so that makes more sense.
In all honesty, I myself would not mind paying the $17M for 1 year to see if he still has “it”. The trade proposed gives us almost $5M in savings and we get off of long term money too. We then have his bird rights to resign him at an appropriate amount, or let him go if he isn’t worth it.
I think his skillset is something Kidd would like to work with at his position too, so it wouldn’t be another Wood situation.