05-31-2023, 07:10 AM
(05-30-2023, 08:12 PM)F Gump Wrote: I have a hard time seeing how any of those teams can realistically target Kyrie. MIA is going to be struggling to stay under the 2nd apron (as is PHX) which makes staying under a SNT hard cap problematic. PHI, even without Harden, is nowhere close to 40M in cap room - just the foursome of Embiid, Harris, PJ, and Maxey leaves them with only about 24M left to spend, and they have more contracts than that to account for.
I realize people don't hang on every word I post and don't remember specific proposals. I should probably do a better job of referencing back to past writings. I'm not envisioning anyone using cap room here. So, the apron issues are the ones to be concerned about. The Philly one is tough. I'm envisioning them getting a TE from Houston in a deal for Harden and us using that same TE to send Kyrie. We would have to take something back from them or they wouldn't be able to sign their FA's. Alternatively, they could pay to move some additional salary. The problem is they don't have much in the way of trash contracts to give away besides Korkmaz. I think Philly would be VERY motivated to figure out a way to get a second star if Harden moved on. It might include paying us to take Harris as a one year hold on getting cap room.
The Miami deal I've talked about is trade matching. The Heat are already over the apron and have to sign Vincent and Strus. Lowry, Herro and Jovic for Kyrie at his max saves about $12mm. Miami would need to pay someone to eat the Oladipo contract, but they are pretty resourceful. NY didn't have the cap space to do what they did last summer and we all know how that turned out. Dallas could take a hard line stand and end up just like they did a year ago. I think the smarter play (all this assumes Kyrie wants to go to a contender in the east) is to play along and get what you can.