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Spurs might just have to say it and pay the luxury tax for a year in 2015-16 if Timmy and Manu return.
Great read!
Not to be a pessimist here, but by the looks of it, Duncan and Manu will be back next season. Green will command big money, and Kawhi is getting the max. How are the Spurs supposed to push through with another max-contract FA in this scenario? I don't see anyway this is happening without Tim and/or Manu retiring
Spurs might just have to say it and pay the luxury tax for a year in 2015-16 if Timmy and Manu return.
Thanks. I day we go hard after Lebron after beating him again in the Finals
LMA is an interesting prospect. I wonder if it wouldn't be better to go after e.g. Dragic + Millsap (I have no idea how much each of them is worth in the current FA market, though).
AD is a RFA in 2016... I can't see the Pelicans not matching an offer.
If we miss we go all in on AD. If AD lands in some monster trade others like the guards mentioned above will fall out of trees to play with Kiwi & AD.
Again, AD is a restricted free agent, exactly like Kawhi now. His fate is not in his hands. If the Pelicans want to keep him they will match any offer (and they know it's going to be a max offer anyway so they can plan around it already). Then AD has no choice but to keep playing for the Pelicans for at least one more year. So we're "realistically" looking at AD in 2017 at the earliest. That's the 2 seasons away...
BTW Lin is a UFA, I wonder how much he's going to get.
Pop can change before Manu and to prime run 4 down
Then faster face motion
We're not getting Anthony ing Davis
Most likely won't land Aldridge, either, but I'd love to have him. He'd be a great fit on both sides of the ball. He's one of the best mid-range shooting bigs in the league, and this year even showed signs of a developing 3-point shot. His overall efficiency isn't great, but ideally he'd be taking fewer shots if he came here. He's always been really underrated defensively IMO. He's a great PnR defender and can also defend guys in the post well. Kawhi/LMA/Splitter would be a terrifying front court.
Pop can change with what he has to work with
Every year this gets brought up, and every year the spurs don't land a big named free agent.
Thanks for the translation.
if the spurs get alridge, they had better think about getting a new point guard. This is piss parker off even more and he'd for sure not pass either one of those guys the ball during the season.
Green and Kawhi have small cap holds so we can go over the cap to sign them after bringing in a free agent. You're right about Timmy and Manu though, the only way we'd be able to bring in a max guy is if they either retire or take the Room Exception ($2.5m) and Minimum respectively.
We haven't had cap space for a long time.
Same here, not the typical post up big we all know would fit. Not a great passer either, and not an elite defender for sure.
Great scorer from midrange.
I'm assuming that IF the Spurs were to lure Aldridge away from Portland (highly unlikely), then it would most likely come in the form of a Sign & Trade with Tiago.
I think this is not entirely true, as they could renounce both, sign a max FA, resign Leonard and Green, go over the cap, and use the MLE in both Ginobili and Duncan.
Some of the cap gurus should confirm but i think this is legal.
On a side note, if Duncan and Ginobili do stay, i prefer to go after Roy Hibbert and let him learn from Duncan.
The offense will still be here with Tim, and Hibbert would be a improvement on defense.
Hibbert has a player option and if he chooses out he is unrestricted. I think he has a great relation with Tim ( http://espn.go.com/nba/preview2013/s...rkout-partners ).
He also seems to be a fan of howwe play ( http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...-what-they-do/ ).
Last edited by kaji157; 04-25-2015 at 11:28 AM.
Incorrect. If you go under the cap by more than the MLE, which the Spurs would do in your scenario, you lose the MLE completely. Duncan and Ginobili would have to take the minimum each or split the $2.7M room exception, each of which is highly unlikely.
Your exceptions have cap holds too so you'd need to renounce all exceptions in order to open up the cap space. Once you do that and use cap space, you get back the Room Mid-Level Exception (which people just call the Room Exception) which is $2.5m per year for a maximum of 2 years.
Tough to do without CoJo and Marco, but to get max money for Aldridge they would have to renounce rights to both. Perhaps even trade Diaw.
You know with all this hype, I'm beginning to believe the LMA to Spurs thing..
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