06-09-2023, 10:21 AM
(06-09-2023, 07:04 AM)Ghost of Podkolzin Wrote: Regardless of how you look at it, according to 2022/23 performance, Ayton is at best the 14th-15th center. That's not worth $104m/3yrs. Distressed asset.
In the old days, I'd be very interested in a player like Ayton. Or Ben Simmons. Or John Collins. Or Tobias Harris. Guys who could become serviceable parts of a good team, maybe even a championship team, but had contracts significantly bigger than their performance.
But, what the new CBA is teaching us is that there is no room on a championship roster for underperforming contracts.
Maybe we'd be tempted to exchange some of our negative-value contracts (Bertans, McGee, maybe THJ? Or Bullock?) for other teams' negative contracts. But Ayton's contract is REALLY negative, IMO, and hangs around on your books for a long time.