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Rumor: Chris Paul doesn’t plan on taking paycut for Rockets

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Stormy1234, Jun 3, 2018.

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  1. Cstyle42

    Cstyle42 Member

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    Need to be goodbye Harden then sign Lebron and CP3.
     
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  2. Pizza_Da_Hut

    Pizza_Da_Hut I put on pants for this?

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    It's funny because if the rockets had just won one more half this playoffs this wouldn't even be a discussion.
     
    #42 Pizza_Da_Hut, Jun 3, 2018
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  3. TheRealAllpro

    TheRealAllpro Morey only fan

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    Chris already took a pay cut last year.

    We owe him

    If you thought he was going to take a pay cut you were not paying attention.
     
    #43 TheRealAllpro, Jun 3, 2018
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  4. DonKnock

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    The Warriors don’t have 4 Supemax guys, they have 2 (Curry/Durant). The Rockets would have 3 with Harden, Paul, LeBron.

    To have the full possible max, a player had to qualify for the designated player extension.
    You can be a “max” player by getting the highest possible raise (120% of previous contract) and not be a supermax player


    https://basketball.realgm.com/article/246593/CBA-Encyclopedia-Designated-Veteran-Contracts
     
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    So does that mean no LeBron then?
     
    #45 bawanyh, Jun 3, 2018
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    Please let this be true
     
    #46 Tankeio, Jun 3, 2018
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  8. riko

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    He is worth max for three more years. Is he the best player on the team? No but he is the vocal leader and plays well with harden.

    I say give him the max
     
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  9. Texanstradamus

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    Well the rockets will be terrible after 2 yrs of this deal hopefully we win a championship within the 2
     
    #49 Texanstradamus, Jun 3, 2018
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  10. ROXTXIA

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    You guys are just coming out of the woodwork now.

    This might just be a long, long, long, long, looooooooong off-season.
     
    #50 ROXTXIA, Jun 3, 2018
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  11. riko

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    Yep and as they should.
     
    #51 riko, Jun 3, 2018
  12. Mkieke

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    With CP3, you maximize the championship opportunity during Harden’s MVP prime. Depending on how the offseason shakes out, we’d have a 2, potentially 3, year window where we’d be favorites to make it to the WCF. If year 4 & 5 are ugly, years 1-3 will make up for it. The 1 thing you DON’T want to do is attach any 2020+ picks to trades - by 2022, the roster could end up looking like the Nets after everybody peaked, but at least we’d still have the picks.

    People thinking that we’d be competitive in the FA market (PG13) w/out CP3 are fooling themselves.
     
    #52 Mkieke, Jun 3, 2018
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  13. Gorilladunks

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    A paycut will only save luxury tax bill

    his cap hold is 35 million. There is no point in a paycut for him for cap manipulation management
     
    #53 Gorilladunks, Jun 3, 2018
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  14. ThatBoyNick

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    They should give him a flat, or even declining max if we can.
     
    #54 ThatBoyNick, Jun 3, 2018
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    No its because paul taking a cut has no influence on lebron acquisition. Pauls cap hold is 35 million so when manipulating your cap space you go over with the bird rights for paul anyway and there is no savings to be had. Pauls salary is just luxury tax burden total.
     
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    Paul won the Rockets two games against GSW.

    What’s the point of playing for a ship if he ain’t back?

    Harden has 3 or 4 prime years of top level play. Let him ride it out with CP3.
     
    #56 tmacfor35, Jun 3, 2018
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    If true then hes like me70 only wants money and doest want to reach the finals for the first time and be a winner.
     
    #57 Sidarma, Jun 3, 2018
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    He will be worth a max for 2-3 years and May have some Kidd-sequel late career heroics in him. Point God will be a Rocket
     
    #58 bulkatron, Jun 3, 2018
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    This was well known when we acquired him
     
    #59 justtxyank, Jun 3, 2018
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  20. amaru

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    Max him out. Nobody out there we can get to pair with Harden that is realistically better.

    Hell they gave Ryan “Brick” Anderson $80 million to do nothing.
     
    #60 amaru, Jun 3, 2018
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