On a second thought, Parsons' new contract could be a bless for the Rockets

It may not be such one sided favor the player as you may think.

The key is the length here.

3 years and the 3rd being player's option.

OK, I think most people will expect Parsons will opt out in the 3rd year unless some major disaster happen to him.

Check Howard's contract also, he can opt out the same year : 2016 summer, and I will expect he do the same.

What exactly this will mean to the Rockets?

2016 summer :

- Durant is a unrestricted free agent.
- Lebron could be one also depends on his new contract (well I will not consider this factor for now).
- the latest chance for a re-negotiation of the current CBA is set for 2017, well that means the 2016 summer will be the last chance for the player to grab a secure long term deal, expecting that could be the best free agent market in years.

So, by 2016, when both Parsons and D12 will opt out, the Rockets will have TONS of cap room to chase Durant - whose one of his best friends, Harden is playing for us and he will stay for the next 4 years.

While we still have the bird rights for Parsons and D12, we can still make a play for one of them and sign them over the cap.

The other option will be : by next season, Morey can also look into the option of trading Parsons away for assets too. The trade kicker won't damage his value at all due the length and value of his contract.

So you can see, even if Rockets will match Parsons contract, we are still in a good position to move forward.

I expect these are the 2 plans of the Rockets in the next few days :

Plan A :

1. sign Bosh 4 years in the next 3 days.
2. match Parsons offer

Plan B :

1. give up on Bosh, and then sign 2-3 guys with range of 500-800 to fill the cap while not giving up too much of our current players.
** heard the deal with NO for Asik is in trouble, we can take back Ajanca in this trade easily if we go with this route **
2. match Parsons offer

 

clarify on above regarding plan B.

I meant to say " sign 2-3 guys with 5-8 mils per"

 

The point of matching Parsons is we do not lose the cap space and will let Morey work over the cap.

The cap is 63 mils and the tax line is at 77 mils.

Sign Bosh to fill up 63 mils and sign Parson to get close (or even over ) 77 mils is the original plan.

Even we can not get Bosh, we should at least sign some quality players to get close to 63 mils and then match Parson.

We can still use the 15 mil contract of Parsons to enhance the team.

Let him walk away, we don't just lose a good player without any return, we also lose these 15 cap space which can help our team.

 

As I have mentioned above regarding the 2016 summer situation and the contract structure of the Rockets,

the next 2 seasons we must go all in, this is our only existing window with this current roaster.

Any kind of hold back does not make any sense, we can not keep saying this is a young team and we must be patient.

2 years, all in, if fail, re-roll the dice again in 2016.

 

The market is giving almost every player confidence that they want to opt out tomorrow.

 

First of all, if he opted out, like I said, that's the 2016 summer market, we will be in play for bigger fish anyway.

If he opted in and he will be a much worse player than we expected (the chance is low on this), well, we are still looking at just 1 more year with him.

Regarding his trade value, even at 15 mils, that's a totally tradable asset. His name was linked in Rondo and Love trade the last 2 years. Think about it, Love is also at his last year and teams may not even have confidence that he will resign and they are still lining up for him.

So, if Morey will see a chance to trade him next season, and with reasonable return, that's definitely an option.