He will be very disappointed in what he will make from his new contract. His performance in the last season simply showed it.
Keep him. You're all in this year. Unless you've got someone definitively better, might as well stay the course. If you get him an open shot, he's your best long range shooter. Hopefully Harden+Russ are so distracting that Gordon's constantly open.
It will be very interesting to see which team(s) will have the prerequisite cap space to sign Eric Gordon to anything higher than his current annual salary of $14 million.
This upcoming free agency will be bad. So I could see someone throwing money his way. I could see a lot of teams talking themselves into Gordon. As you said, there might not be many with much cap room, but that fact as a downward pressure on his expected salary could be negated by the lack of good FAs for him to compete against. Seems unlikely that Tilman would extend him for a good amount. So maybe our best bet is dealing him at the deadline for a taller wing. I could see Morey selling him to any team that is not a free agent destination and in need of more perimeter scoring. I've always wanted a Rockets-Magic Gordon flip. Or maybe the Knicks deal us one of their dozen or so PFs.
Why would the Sixers trade 25 years old Richardson, locked on a 3 year deal which only costs 10M per season...for 30 years old Gordon who is a 14M expiring? Maybe because we're also offering Capela in the deal? And lol at "Philly is motivated but Rockets are shopping for a better deal" ...Rockets would jump on that swap in a heartbeat, especially Tilman, he would fire Morey if for some reason he refuses to make that trade.
FWIW, due to how recently the 76ers acquired him, he can't be traded with another player from his team until September 6th. He can be traded by himself. As a basketball player, this year only, and fit counts, is Richardson better for the Rockets than Gordon? I'm not sure.
Gordon has more threat and more force come playoffs time, Gordon 3 pointers are scary, 6ers include a small rookie contract and rockets include a future First, to the 3rd team.
House? Bennett?? (Especially if he shoots like he has in the G League) McLemore??? Lots of scratch-off tickets for the Rockets to try.
Back to the topic at hand; @Haymitch I've always felt that Gordon is going to be a goner next summer because 1. There's money to be made and 2. we've tried to trade him multiple times the past few years. The former definitely comes into play as long as there's one idiot GM out there with capspace next summer. The hard part of letting him go for nothing or trading him mid-season is because Gordon is, at the very least, our 2nd best 3-point shooter. For a team that loves to jack up 3s and not have actual great 3 point shooters, Gordon is invaluable. That being said, if he can net us a 3&D small forward Morey has to make that trade right? If a GM wants to grossly overpay Eric Gordon next summer I really hope that it won't be Daryl Morey.