It’s $17 mil with Cade’s All NBA contract kicker included if my calculation is correct.
I think you’re right.
Spotrac has them at $31 mil over with $57 mil of cap holds, so $26 mil if they relinquish all their bird rights.
That number, though, has Cade at 25% of the cap, but his All-NBA gets him to 30%, or an extra $8 mil for next year, so $18 mil total.
they would have to renounce their cap hold on all those players - I don’t think they have bird rights on Beasley, as he was a 1 year deal, so they’d need to sign him into the cap space, and I’d tihnk he’s take every penny of that (and would be, for me, the highest priority to retain)
So if you’re signing Schroder, etc., you’re going into the tax, and the question more becomes “do I want to pay him this or turn the minutes over to a younger guy” because odds are you can’t acquire a new play of similar caliber
Is any team paying Schroder that money? You only pay what the market dictates. He’s played for 9 different teams, including 3 different teams this past season alone. He was given away for nothing at the trade deadline. Lots of teams have had opportunities to make him a part of their franchise plans, but have not done so. I’m not sure any team is rushing out to give him a huge bag, but I guess we will see
Also, retaining Beasley, giving Schroder $10mil + and extending Duren/Ivey gets you close to the 2nd apron which would make me clench hard at the moment
We don’t know, but the bigger question is will Schroeder be okay with being the 3rd PG on the roster with Ivey back in the fold? If not, Sasser will be the 3rd PG for the regular season (though I think he’s better off at off the ball but he’s small).
Beasley should be the top priority. The guard rotation gets crowded pretty quick at Cade, Ivey, Beasley taking minutes and you have to fit Schroeder if they’re bringing him back.
To your point, there is not a role for Schroder that justifies his ability or that payroll. Schroder is a better player, but I’d be more interested in retaining Hardaway just for role (I’m not interested remotely in retaining Hardaway)
I’m not sure Duren/Ivey get extended this offseason, but even if they did it wouldn’t kick in for a year, at which point Tobias and Fontecchio’s contracts are up and the cap sheet changes a lot.
They probably talk to Duren about an extension, but I’m not sure what Detroit would offer is what he’d sign right now. With Ivey, I assume they’ll wait to see how he looks coming back from the injury and see how he fits back in before making any extension offers.
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We also have never seen Cade-Ivey-Ausar-Duren on the floor (I don’t count Monty’s year because Monty is a BT). Next season will be telling on where Langdon go from there with the roster construction.
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Predict they’ll operate as an over the cap team.
Sign Beasley with the MLE.
Use Bird rights to resign Schroder at a lower price (so they aren’t one injury away from not having enough ball handlers again.)
Give Sasser Hardaway’s role as the streaky gunner.
Sign a big center as an emergency big (there were no 7footers on the roster this season.)
Beasley is probably worth more than the MLE, but nobody has cap space so who knows, it’s possible
That would be an enormous mistake.
I just got to New York about 2 hours ago and the hotel I’m staying at is a half-block from MSG. I have a busy day tomorrow but I’m debating hanging out in from tonight (yes, I know they’re in Indy) and making a sign that says 3 FREE-THROWS FOR TIM! and seeing what responses I get.
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JUST DO IT !
And please provide your usual amazing narrative revealing photographs.
We await your further contributions….
Knicks look tired.
Knicks on a four foul possession here (first two were nonsense)
Indiana playing really loose with the ball on offense, lucky NY hasn’t cut into this lead.
Is Halliburton invisible or something
How does he dribble up the floor and get straight to the rack without a screen, change of pace, of even a crossover
It is embarrassing how easy this is for Hali
Great stretch of basketball there. Just bucket after bucket for each team.
