How so? KD is taking less to re-sign Iggy and Livingston. They can go over the cap to re-sign Steph. The rest of the bench don't matter tbh.
This won't impact the Warriors at all. They're printing money out there right now for ownership, San Francisco's building them a new stadium to move across the bay (with lots of expensive luxury boxes for the tech sector there in the Bay Area).
Yeah, the lux tax is punitive, but that city and its companies will pay whatever they have to in order to be in the building for them as long as they're good.
GSW has Livingston, Iggy, and Clark's bird rights, it doesn't really affect them.
They don't have Durant's bird rights.
Their situation:
$17.8 Thompson
$16.4 Green
$ 1.5 Looney
$ 1.3 Jones
$ 1.3 McCaw
$ 0.9 Dead cap
$39.3 Guaranteed (can be $37.5 or so if Jones and Looney are moved for no salary and minimum charges; they're not moving McCaw)
$31.8 Durant cap hold
$18.2 Curry cap hold
$89.3 With those two holds
They then need four roster holds at $500k apiece and have $91.3 guaranteed. Or $89.5 if losing Looney and Jones. They can fit Livingston's cap hold ($11.0 minus $500k) but not Iggy's. So this would require:
(1) Staying over cap and signing Iggy first and then being under cap with a lower deal of his and then Livingston's - basically enough to sign Durant under the cap.
(2) Pay Durant and Livingston and Iggy come back for next to nothing
(3) Durant takes significantly less
The Curry deal procedurally will be last to get signed.
I see how they can keep one of the two but not both. Iggy will get paid. And much rather them keep Livingston.
On edit - I forgot Ian Clark's $1.4 million cap hold. He's in a similar situation to Simmons so they can go over cap to sign him, but that's another $900k they won't have to maneuver.
The Warriors don't need to worry about Durant. They have his NB rights. The smaller the cap is, the closer Durant's max is to the NB raise. They'll have no problem keeping everyone together unless West, McGee and Zaza want raises.
So a two year deal and then full bird rights after? He really will be giving up some real money - more than CP3 would give up to sign with the Spurs.
They'll basically stay over the cap then and none of it matters. But could get really expensive.
I'm all for teams driving up Livingston and Iggy as much as possible. And give Clark a stupid offer sheet
Good maybe the owners and maybe even the players will realize creating super teams and thereby a non-compe ive league isn't in anybody's interest except maybe a beta like Durant.
The Warriors can give KD a deal starting at $31.8 Million this summer. The smaller cap is driving his max down. He's not giving up all that much. Another one-year deal would do it.
Again, people hoping to see GSW have everyone walk are going to be sorely disappointed. As long as they keep their core rotation together, they can fill out the roster with minimum vets who want to ring chase.
If they lose any of the core seven guys (starters + Iggy and Livingston), it will be because some other team makes one of the unrestricted guys a ridiculous offer (like the reports earlier this week of teams wanting to give Andre $20 million a year). Not because the cap went down two million.
I've done the math.
Waiving Forbes actually saves approx 497k, because his salary like all minimums got bumped with the new CBA.
2017 stash saves 589k, Milutinov continual stash saves 650k
Doing all three gets them an extra 1.736 or so of room.
I wouldn't put it past them. Giving Paul his absolute max I always thought a stretch, but if push came to shove, the compromise would be this:
LMA, Kawhi, Green, Murray, Bertans, Simmons QO, duncan stretch, LJC waive + 5 roster charge WITH a Parker stretch = 66.779 million, or 32.221 million in room
That could deliver a deal for 4/138.5
But it would have to be a Parker stretch and not a Green dump, because it's harder to execute a Green dump and take zero salary back, draft pick or whatever and still add value to the team. Giving Green away for a future pick only hurts the chances at a le, and Paul isn't giving up money to get worse le odds I would think.
The best thing would actually be a Parker dump with draft pick like 2018 1st attached.
People can insist that he's untouchable, and maybe he is, but the math is the math.
Parker salary dump = so much more room and the ability to keep Green.
They could keep LMA, Green, Simmons QO, 2017 first, Milutinov, plus roster charges and still start Paul at a number like 33.6 and a 4/144 deal.
Parker is the feces in the punch bowl.
Even LMA is better to keep than dump because Paul can make him better. Paul can't make Parker's legs 10 years younger. No point in tying up 50% of the cap in point guards when they'll only play one at a time.
They will if they trade LMA.
This answer n issue I had with the Cleveland rumors.
Everybody hates super teams unless it's their team.
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