05-31-2023, 01:33 PM
(05-31-2023, 12:31 PM)F Gump Wrote: It's not even in the same ballpark.
NY was at about the cap, or maybe a bit under, when they started. And they only needed about 24M in cap room for JB. So they had to clear 24M in room or maybe a bit less. (Ultimately they cleared a bit more.)
PHI/MIA/PHX are 40-50M over the cap, and if they got to the cap, they would need to open another 40M or more in cap room beyond that to pay Kyrie. In real numbers, in light of charges for empty cap slots, they would have to get their existing payroll down to about 85M.
In theory PHI would be the best bet, but only if Harden walks, and even then they would just be at about the cap or a bit over. And they don't have any available FRPs or desirable players other than Maxey to use to get teams to take bad salary.
Thanks for the clarification. I suspected this wasn't apples-to-apples.