he'll be cut and let go after the season. unless he'll accept vet min and a monthly subscription to cupcakes.
Remind me what is the "deadline" for both sides to need to come to an agreement before there's some kinda fallout? I have to imagine, for both him and the Rockets, the figure is going to come down to how things look like they're going this year... I'm sure a decision has to be made before the playoffs (presumably by around the trade deadline?), so we won't really have all the data we want, but we can at least get some.
idk but unless we make the finals this year, there's no way Stone is dumb enough to put us in the 2nd apron to pay just KD.
Looking at our 1st apron room next off-season, it looks like we have around 68.6M to pay KD+Eason and 4 other vet min guys. If you sign 4 guys to the vet min, that leaves us with about 59.4M of cap space to work with since Stone likely wants to operate under that 1st apron until we have to pay Amen the year after. So unless KD takes a HUGE paycut, like 80M/2years (which I highly doubt) or Tari is fine being paid much less than his worth, I don't see both of them on this team next season.
I do wish him the best in his next team, it was great having him here... A fan favorite, a gentleman and a scholar... Will miss you Durant....
I would love to get him on 1 guaranteed extension year at $49m and a second team option year at $51m. We know and he knows we’re declining that option but it allows us to market it as “$100m extension for KD”. We decline the team option and allow him to test the market after that (age 38?). Happy to bring him back for his open market price if he’s still healthy at that point. We have to dump Adams, we’re going to learn very quickly this season that the CBA is not friendly to frivolous gimmick projects like the double big we’re over-spending on. Teams are not going to be caught by surprise anymore and we could easily cover the backup 5 with Capela/Jabari and a vet minimum signing. Love Adams but I predict the team made an emotional decision to go all in on double bigs and it’s not going to be a sustainable strategy for us.
the double bigs lineup may get more play this year than I anticipated, because of the FVV injury, but it is not a sustainable strategy in today’s NBA. I think about 10 mins a game is about right, but may be used 15 mins a game with the injuries to FVV and DFA early on.
I don’t mind 15-20 minutes if it’s incidental to the roster strengths but come on we know that the project should be: Sengun, Amen and 3 shooters. Why are we investing $15m in rebounding that we could be investing in spacing the floor a bit better for the two core pieces? Nothing catastrophic but a correction will need to be made imo. My view is it has only ever succeeded against a soft part of the regular schedule. It delivers good lineups but the team doesn’t seem to win any better on average when it employs the double big - I suspect that’s because it takes away other things anyway. Will be interesting to watch.
