04-18-2024, 12:03 AM
After looking further, I see that even after waiving CP3, GS will have to consider Apron 1 (hard cap) limits ($179M) in many scenarios.
In the scenario of SNT trade KT for THJ/Green (tot $29M), that hard caps them and puts them close to their hard cap, after they fill 3 more slots (@$2.1M each) to get to the minimum of 14 players, with just a bit of a cushion left. But no room for a 15th player for the whole year, unless it's a rookie 2nd rounder, but they can do 10-day deals and eventually a rest-of-season deal. No space for any MLE.
Without a SNT they have more flexibility, as they have no hard cap and their effective limit then jumps to about $190M (Apron 2), which leaves room for a 15th player, and the room to use the TxP MLE of about 5.2M.
I think there's no way they pay KT the $43M he made this past season, but they might be able to justify some lower number that still gives them the opportunity to use the MLE and slot 15 while keeping the gang together. That could even be as high as 32-33M, although I don't think he's worth that, but perhaps they do.
In the scenario of SNT trade KT for THJ/Green (tot $29M), that hard caps them and puts them close to their hard cap, after they fill 3 more slots (@$2.1M each) to get to the minimum of 14 players, with just a bit of a cushion left. But no room for a 15th player for the whole year, unless it's a rookie 2nd rounder, but they can do 10-day deals and eventually a rest-of-season deal. No space for any MLE.
Without a SNT they have more flexibility, as they have no hard cap and their effective limit then jumps to about $190M (Apron 2), which leaves room for a 15th player, and the room to use the TxP MLE of about 5.2M.
I think there's no way they pay KT the $43M he made this past season, but they might be able to justify some lower number that still gives them the opportunity to use the MLE and slot 15 while keeping the gang together. That could even be as high as 32-33M, although I don't think he's worth that, but perhaps they do.