I don't think Collins is a negative contract in general. I think he's a horrible fit on the Spurs. He was mistakenly cast first as a combo-big and then as a stretch-big. It seems like he's really a single-big who can do some stretch things sometimes. That's a bad fit on the Spurs -- and if we're honest it's not a much better fit on the Bucks -- but I don't think his contract is that bad in general. Like I think he'd be great with the Knicks. If they still need help making the Bridges trade apron-legal and want to do that via a Randle trade, the Spurs could step in there.
I'd take Firstborn over Zhaquille Collins any day of the in' week. Throwing in a second to make it work would not even register as a blip on my radar if I were in the FO. One guy was an absolute bricklayer competing with Wemby for FGA/g. The other guy is a defensive stalwart who will actually have the IQ to choose his spots and will knock his looks down a higher clip, guaranteed. Would be hard to say about BWright for the rest of this off-season if he can swing something like this.
2nd apron team, limited on what they can do, Brook is only real center on roster so Collin’s could make sense.
Trading Brook saves them millions in tax $ & opens other ROSTER options for Bucks, 2-1 trades, tax MLE.
Kyle Korver, more recently.Didn't his wife want him to go to LA or retire? It's Jason Kidd all over again
23-24 version of Zach Collins is a disgustingly bad player, there's no way anyone can spin that.
Forget about his issues on offense, a big with such disgustingly bad defense is never seeing the floor in the playoffs. Never.
Ah, thought you were saying the Spurs would send a pick with Keldon to get Lopez.
Celtics handing out huge contracts like crazy and ownership is looking to sell the team so someone else has to pick up the check.
Temple still in the league, I still remember when he was on the way to being our next backup PG then he got injured.
They are in position to demand a ransom, because someone will pay it; that's how these things work.
He's not getting to UFA in a true sense. It'll be like Siakam, Anunoby and others, where he'll be traded to a team he's going to re-sign with.
Obviously debatable whether the Spurs should be that team. I'm with you in saying they shouldn't because if/when they blow their load, it should be on a perimeter player, preferably with size.
But make no mistake, whenever and for whoever, they're going to feel pain.
Caruso didn’t go out in a dump. There was a credible return. DD puts up numbers,but doesn’t really affect winning. Recall the year we offloaded him in a salary dump. We didn’t miss a beat on the treadmill, having close to the same record with Dejounte running the plays.
Spurs should add 3-4 seconds to Zollins if that's what it takes to get Lopez and off this whack Zollins deal.
So how much cap space do we have to collect trash contracts for SRPs?
Bobby Portis is a ing psycho who broke his team mate’s jaw.
That he is, but MIL is desperately trying to shed salary. Spurs can just eat the money, while also sending them some youth.
SAS: Lopez + Portis + ____
MIL: Collins + Blake
How much is that blank space worth? Another 2030 FRP swap and 31FRP!?
(Too soon?)
i mean if theyre sending portis too then yeah im all for sending out keldon
i doubt bucks want to move both
That would be another way to get rid of Zollins
The asset is Lopez contract. It’s a continuation of filling out the roster with expirings to exert pressure on Ainge and show that we can just ing sign Lauri next summer if he continues to be a , and I’m here for it.
Pretty sure they can’t as a 2nd apron team, can only send out a single player at a time (unless a team has cap room/exception to fully absorb-spurs dont), that’s part of the 2nd apron penalty. Can’t do a 2-2, 3-2.
Could do Lopez for Collin’s to get under that apron, but then would have a find a salary match for Portis which isn’t Wesley
That was like 10 years ago, move on already
That, I have no idea. You could well be right with these new rules going into effect now.
Why are you all in for Lauri this year? I thought they are going to be better free agents next year does it make sense to sign him or wait for next year free agents?
Not sure how to post an image or imbed a tweet, but Bobby Marks has a good post on Twitter.
one of the rules for 2nd apron is the apron team can’t aggregate ongoing salaries, ie can only send out a single player at a time.
Personally im really going to enjoy these new rules, I think teams that exceed the cap should be punished harshly- set their franchise back years instead of just money to a billionaire who doesn’t care.
That’s about to happen. Another good one is teams are over 2nd apron can’t trade their pick 7 yrs out, if over twice in 4 yrs have their 1st rd pick moved to last in the 1st rd (30th pick 6 yrs out).
This will also give teams that operate under the cap a great shot to get real value for taking on bad contracts.
In this light, think the Spurs are being very smart. Having cap space can get you a FA, a negative value player/contract + assets, or maybe a really good player that a team simply can’t afford to keep for various tax/penalty reasons.
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