06-08-2023, 10:54 AM
(06-08-2023, 09:13 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: FWIW, this feels to me like Phoenix approached CP3 and said ‘we love you dude, but we can’t do the $30.8 for you next year. New CBA blah blah blah’. You have a choice. If you want to go get an MLE job somewhere, you can make $28mm next season, but you can’t do it here because we will S/W you if you want to go. If you want to stay on a minimum, great, love to have you, but we can’t S/W you in that scenario. We need to plan around your decision, so you have X days to let us know. Our base presumption is you are looking for the money, so we will S/W unless you agree to take the minimum. Have a nice day.
Pretty much. CP3 knows he´s not even getting the $15M difference on the open market, if he is waived. I doubt any contender even gives him the full MLE. It be more like a stop gap minimum level or smallest exception kind of deal. I really don´t see a deal here, cause the Suns have nothing to make other teams happy. No young players and no trade assets. Would a team eat CP3´s deal for 5-6 second round picks?