01-04-2024, 07:26 PM
(01-04-2024, 02:31 PM)F Gump Wrote: 1 What do you mean by "realistic"? It's my assessment that Siakam is too risky of a trade, with Philly looming to snatch him away in the summer. This would not be a Kyrie scenario, where the primary expected competition has no cap room.
The only way to avoid that is to require an extension. So I would make that part of the deal OR would just not trade for him. Seems way more realistic to me than paying a bunch of assets for a half-season rental and then very likely ending up with nothing. One more thing -- if you don't take that stance, you won't get to see how much staying in Dallas might interest him, before trading for him.
2 Your math is off. Trading $41M and then signing Siakam to a max $42.6M diminishes your room under the apron by about $5M, because of the 3-for-1 aspect. You end up broadly in the area of the TxpMLE of $5.2M. If you think that will be enough left for DJJ, ok, but I have huge doubts.
Of course, if Siakam walks as a FA, problem solved!
Of course it isn’t realistic. Siakam is very clearly not settling for two years when he can wait a few months and lock in 2-3 more. His people have been very public about this. So, your requirement is unrealistic…it won’t happen. I’m willing to invite you over to my house, but I “require” you give me $1.0 million first. It is the same as asking Siakam to forfeit $100mm to meet your “requirement”.
I enjoy your stuff, but you have a habit of dropping by and half reading things and then correcting people when no correction is necessary. You very clearly made a mistake the other day and instead of pouncing on your mistake I brought up the correct position in another thread. You picked up on it and corrected your work. Here, I very clearly wasn’t trying to nail down an exact number…thus the words “give or take a million or two”. First, we don’t know that Siakam will get his full max. Kyrie didn’t. Second, we don’t know that Dallas will carry 15. Third, I mentioned a way to get another additional space under the apron. Your $5.2mm number supposes a very specific set of answers to several questions that we don’t have answers for.