Looks like the Pistons turned down the options on Garza, Carsen Edwards, and Frank Jackson, picking up the $5 million option on Hami (this whole thing went the way I would have wanted).
Now I hope they let Bagley walk, but I doubt it.
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Bagley isnāt walking. Heāll have a deal announced at about 6:00:01 Eastern I bet. They canāt finalize the trades with the Knicks until they first sort out Bagleyās cap hold. The Knicks canāt move on Brunson until they finalize the deals with Detroit. They wouldnāt have agreed to the trades if Detroit didnāt already have an agreement with Bagley that would allow those trades to be done quickly.
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Youāre probably right (ie, they canāt do the deal without signing him to a lower number than his cap hold)
I just think heās trash.
I think I saw somewhere that it would be two years 22 million or something like that
Double digits for Bagley - who fits nowhere in their plans (I assume heās lower on the totem pole than Stewart and Duren, and is worse today than Olynyk and Noel)
is nuts
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My guess is Olynyk will be sent out in a trade for a more forward shaped power forward but who knows. But yeah I agree. Bagley played better in Detroit, but not enough that I believe in him at all.
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Really hard to put much stock in the final 20 games of the season on a team thatās not taking winning particularly seriously playingā¦lots of teams who arenāt taking winning particularly seriously.
Iāve stated a bunch, that I like Olynyk for this team because he at least gives them a path to provide Cade/Ivey with a spaced floor, something theyāre otherwise going to really struggle with.
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I think it will be double digits for Bagley, but with a team option on the final year. Given they punted cap space to next year, I think signing him makes sense. Still potential they unlock something that becomes valuable in a trade, or at worst he is an expiring deal they can package up with other expiring deals in a trade to a team looking to rebuild.
A deal of two years or less for Bagley and thatās fine
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I agree that Iād rather have Olynyk than Bagley since Olynyk can spread at the 4 position, at which case the team can do a well-spaced PnR pretty easily. If they flip Olynyk for a more forward shaped guy at the 4 who can also shoot, I am fine with that as well. And thatās about what I expect to happen.
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Or the second year is only partially guaranteed.
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The only defense here is if thereās a team option or some partial guarantees in multiple years
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I would be very surprised if at least the last year isnāt an option year
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Disgusting
Itās an OK contract on a 23 yearold reclamation project for 3 years, itās not that bad.
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Sorry heās worth like 1/3 that.
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Not many players in the league are earning what theyāre āworthā, whatever that would mean so the point is moot.
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I mean itās not moot if they tying $12 mil in cap space for three years for their 4th center. He wouldnāt have gotten half this in the open market.
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Would you rather have Bagley or Mo Bamba for 2/$21?
Or Isaiah Hartenstein for less?
This is more than Ivica Zubac.
This is just Weaver spiking the football to show he won the signing or whatever. How does he fit into a team with Stewart and Duren?
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