08-22-2023, 04:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-22-2023, 04:19 PM by DanSchwartzgan.)
(08-22-2023, 03:56 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I don't think Green's impending extension is a likely reason, but figuring out what, if any, use they might have for the extra money the stretch waive would free up might be a decent thought direction.
Is the Capela trade still alive, maybe?
That's were my mind naturally goes too. It could be as simple as they intended to do this all along (as Morris predicted after the season). We ended up so tight to the tax that we had to do the S/W to add Morris and stay comfortably under the tax. It could also be that all the things we pursued are all dead and they gave up and fell back to plan S/W.
With all that said, we do have a lot of PF types in Maxi, OMax, GWill, DJJ and Morris. Yes, some can play other positions and some may never see the light of day. But, that is still a lot. Makes me start to look at Maxi plus space under the tax or Maxi/THJ plus space under the tax deals. Players between $27mm and $32.5mm include Herro, J. Grant, DeRozan, Lowry, Hayward, and Ayton.