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If Dragic is purportedly wanted by several teams, why the buyout?
Or do they only want him for vet min?
^ good to hear. Always curious how those buyouts go and how much is ever given back.
You can see the Spurs wanting the difference between what they sent out and had to take back (~$5M), and you can see the player saying 'nah' since the most I can get from a new team I'd actually go to and still make my original salary is X (which is likely less than ~$5M). But in practice I wonder if what the player ever gives back is the equivalent of the minimum salary (~1.5M) in a given year.
If Dragic is purportedly wanted by several teams, why the buyout?
Or do they only want him for vet min?
18 million salary this season and probably being stingy on taking less for a buyout. Most of the contenders looking at him wouldn't trade for his price tag given his age but will gladly take him as a buyout guy on a min deal
I wouldn’t take less either unless I knew I was going to recoup it in short order, lol
So, some sort of Spurs pay half deal?
Could they get a 2029 72nd round draft pick?
It’s closer to 40% of 5mm the Spurs took back.
You would if you wanted to be in the playoffs and not sitting on the end of a lottery team’s bench. The Spurs don’t have to waive him, he has to convince them to waive him, and that costs $$.
Im sure he’ll get both, Playoffs and effectively his whole paycheck once he signs with the new team. At 35 years old not sure he’s gonna get THAT much of a boost for a next deal from playing spot minutes on a contender, but I suppose that could be part of the calculation
There are 24 games left which means he's owed about $5.7M still (not sure if that is how it's paid out, but let's go with it). Does a team that wants him have that much room in exceptions, etc to sign him? And that is the # from which we'd want a discount off of. Also, the amount paid by the team he signs with is deducted from what the buyout team owes him. So unless the new team is willing to pay the full $5.7M, he'll have to take a discount on the buyout/signing with the new team.
Dragic only gave back the prorated min, according to Smitty. The Spurs obviously didn't negotiate very hard. That's fine. They didn't need to save the money. Now they can look to lock in a guy for a roster spot or get an international player next month. They don't really have any needs unless Satoransky sucks too much to even be depth behind Jones. I'd look for bigger forwards
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