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Protect Champ or Carter Bryant for the 8th spot?

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Exstatic said:
I’m not. If they need to trade him, they’ll be able to.
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Hope you’re right: 58M and 62M for a 31 and 32 year old, respectively, player that relies on speed should give many teams pause.

Makes me think best time to flip him is no later than Summer 2027.
 
CGD said:
Hope you’re right: 58M and 62M for a 31 and 32 year old, respectively, player that relies on speed should give many teams pause.

Makes me think best time to flip him is no later than Summer 2027.
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By the time those years roll around,those will actually be a smaller part of the cap. He’s also no longer a guy who leans into his physical gifts. He’s developed a pretty well rounded game.
 
OK Computer said:
I’ve been saying this like crazy. The guy is going nowhere.
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While I don’t see it being imminent, it’s looking very much like both Castle and Harper’s shots are rounding into form. If that does happen, they’ll both be All Star if not All NBA level players. If is the case, you just can’t keep all four of Wemby, Fox, Castle, and Harper. That would be110% of the cap for 4 players.. It’s not even about writing a big enough check. It’s about losing draft picks to the second apron. I see both Fox and Vassell gone NLT 2028. Vassell might be gone in 27, when his 28 contract takes a dip and becomes more attractive.
 
scott said:
Gonna start some "Fox will retire a Spur and his #4 will hang from the rafters" mojo to offset those who want to so cavalierly cast him off
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I won’t be sad when he’s traded in two summers tbh.
 
Free agent are safe I heard

Let's extend on 1 year deal Champ and Keldon from now on so they are safe

You agree with them on multi year deal but you extend them 1 year at a time
 
From what iv seen free agents can't be protected, that's the opposite of safe!
eric365 said:
Free agent are safe I heard

Let's extend on 1 year deal Champ and Keldon from now on so they are safe

You agree with them on multi year deal but you extend them 1 year at a time
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What is the precedent for free agents in the past? If they don't have a contract, how would their contract be "drafted" by an expansion team? The expansion team can just outright sign them by free agency like any other team.
 
Unrestricted FAs cannot be drafted by expansion teams. RFAs can be drafted by expansion teams, the team does not have the right to match, they also cannot sign back with their original teams.
 
eric365 said:
Free agent are safe I heard

Let's extend on 1 year deal Champ and Keldon from now on so they are safe

You agree with them on multi year deal but you extend them 1 year at a time
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If you are Keldon or Champ... why do you agree to this? They are one freak injury away from their one-year deal being the end of their career in this scenario. They shouldn't agree to this, and the Spurs wouldn't do them like this.
 
scott said:
If you are Keldon or Champ... why do you agree to this? They are one freak injury away from their one-year deal being the end of their career in this scenario. They shouldn't agree to this, and the Spurs wouldn't do them like this.
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Keldon or Champ do this to stay in a contending team they love

Instead of being sent in the worst team of the league in Las Vegas

And it's only until the expansion draft that is probably in a year or 2

And they don't lose any money except in case of freak career ending injury where the spurs could not justify keeping their secret deal
 
Happy that the Sonics are going back to Seattle tbh. One of my favorite cities.

Pretty lukewarm on Vegas tbh. That's Laker country. I'd be surprised if the NBA team ever finds a foothold there with the locals and isn't just a revolving door of convention goers attending games.
 
Exstatic said:
By the time those years roll around,those will actually be a smaller part of the cap. He’s also no longer a guy who leans into his physical gifts. He’s developed a pretty well rounded game.
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Nah the yearly cap bumps are projecting to be less than the annual salary bump (7% vs 8%) so even with compounding on the cap vs non-compounding on the player salary Fox's salary still comes out a slightly higher percentage of the cap in Year 4 than it was in Year 1.
 
scott said:
If you are Keldon or Champ... why do you agree to this? They are one freak injury away from their one-year deal being the end of their career in this scenario. They shouldn't agree to this, and the Spurs wouldn't do them like this.
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Def makes no sense for Champagnie given how little he has earned. Keldon has already had one big payday and I think he wants to be here at all costs so wouldn't surprise me to see him offer to sign a short deal to allow the team to protect Champ without having to choose him over Keldon.
 
Mugen said:
Happy that the Sonics are going back to Seattle tbh. One of my favorite cities.

Pretty lukewarm on Vegas tbh. That's Laker country. I'd be surprised if the NBA team ever finds a foothold there with the locals and isn't just a revolving door of convention goers attending games.
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Yeah a new NBA team in Vegas has all the makings of another LA Chargers fiasco. Though with Seattle having a millionaire's tax (9.9% on every dollar of income over $1 million) I wonder how many star players are going to want to go there.
 
Kick-Stand said:
Nah the yearly cap bumps are projecting to be less than the annual salary bump (7% vs 8%) so even with compounding on the cap vs non-compounding on the player salary Fox's salary still comes out a slightly higher percentage of the cap in Year 4 than it was in Year 1.
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The other day there was a report that the cap for the next season will be $1M less than initially projected.
Irrelevant, but still.
 
Kick-Stand said:
Yeah a new NBA team in Vegas has all the makings of another LA Chargers fiasco. Though with Seattle having a millionaire's tax (9.9% on every dollar of income over $1 million) I wonder how many star players are going to want to go there.
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Doubt Seattle will draw FAs for the same reason Portland isn't a FA destination tbh. But unless there are massive changes to the next CBA, I doubt that'll be an impediment in building a competent org within a few years. Stars just aren't leaving via free agency anymore tbh.
 
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