Anyone crying about possibly losing Tari needs to realize he is gone in the offseason for nothing, and that is and absolute certainty.
White is expiring after this season. So if he's good, do you want to pay him and low ball Tari? Or just trade Tari for White and worry about the contract later? To me, White is just an average shooting guard with not much upside. He's okay but I don't want to give up youth for him.
Tari Eason is not gone in the offseason. Since the Rockets have his restricted-free-agent rights, they can and will match the offer he receives from another team. Conversely, Coby White and Ayo Dosunmu are standard free agents that the Rockets would have to beat out 29 other teams to retain.
It would be extremely stupid to give up Tari for White. Tari is a better 3 pt shooter. The idea is too add 3 pt shooting not get worse at it. Not to mention the defensive regression.
Exactly, we chose not to extend him and he is an RFA. This means that when a team comes over the top with an offer, which they certainly will, we will not mach. If they intended on keeping him, they would have given him the number he wanted at the time they could have extended him.
Tari gets paid first if the Rockets acquire White. Rockets match Tari's offer, before re-signing White. If can't fit White in budget, the Rockets would let him walk.
He’s a RFA and his injury history makes him far from a blue chip prospect to offer a huge contract. It’s not an absolute certain.
The team is hard capped at the 1A period ($195,945,000). They cannot exceed that at any point. The injury exception does not allow them to exceed that either. They are currently $1,255,588 under that cap. Essentially, if they want White, they'll have to send out matching salary - likely DFS who earns $12.7m and the remainder comes out of the space they are currently below the 1A. That would leave the team $1,066,699 under the 1A after the trade (DFS for White). IF they were under the 1A by more than White's $12.888m they could use the exception. They aren't. It's irrelevant. The injured player exception allows the lower figure between half the players salary or the NT-MLE. In this case, that's $12.5m, half of FVV's salary (the NT-MLE is slightly higher at $12.822). Neither figure is enough to accommodate White's salary in a swap. White earns $12,888,889. It's DFS out or some combination of players that adds up to ~$12m - with an equal number of players coming and going in the trade.
Lol! He's not getting $30m. We have his rights, if someone wants him @30m we can sign and trade him to them. Hardly anyone will have cap space anyway. Market will be dry AF.
I’m guessin I’m guessing that if Adam’s was sent out just for Coby we would have a little more room. Not sure what Chicago’s situation is after all the trades.
With his injury history and the apron penalties, a rebuilding team is highly unlikely to pay Tari Eason a salary the Rockets will not match. Without the apron rules or had Tari demonstrated he could stay healthy this season, sure. But, teams aren’t going to handcuff themselves to a long-term, bad contract for a player like Eason. He still isn’t cleared by the Rockets’ medical staff to play in back-to-back games.
Let's just look at the basic stat line: Coby White Age - 25.9 Height - 6-4 Wingspan - 6-5 Mins - 29 Pts - 18.5 Reb - 3.5 -------------------- Ast - 4.8 TO - 3.0 ------------------- FG% - 43.9 3P% - 35 FT% - 81 ------------------ STL - .7 BLK - .1 Ayo Dosunmu Age - 26.1 Height - 6-4 Wingspan - 6-10 Mins - 26.3 Pts - 15 Reb - 3 -------------------- Ast - 3.5 TO - 1.4 -------------------- FG% - 51.5 3P% - 44.9 FT% - 85.4 -------------------- STL - .7 BLK - .3 The shooting percentages alone are enough to tell you the story. Across the board Ayo is the better player.
Probably why we can get Coby and can’t get Ayo. I would much rather get Ayo. It would definitely take at least our 27 Phoenix pick.
We can agree to disagree there, I am very confident some team is going to give him an offer we won't want to match. The injury history is one thing, but the 3pt % is another. Tari is going to be marketed as a semi disgruntled guy who hasn't gotten his chance yet, and some team will buy it.
I would trade Jabari to get out of his contract, but the Bulls would have to sweeten the deal significantly with picks/other talent given that Coby is a rental. A straight up trade would mean we're just dumping salary and getting nothing of long-term value.
