Capela playing the Rockets Hostage ATM, but by the end of the trading period and no teams made good offers for him, he will be crawling back begging. And BAM, 5m/yr.
If Capela shoots himself in the foot and gets no lucrative offers from other teams, does that mean we can pay him whatever we want? And if we lowball him, does that mean we have extra spending money to spend on additional help?
No to all of this. He can sign his QO and play for around $5 million next year and then be an unrestricted free agent. This would mean he'd most assuredly leave for whatever offer he could get next year. As for our team, we will not be under the cap no matter what happens with Capela going forward unless we strip the team down to almost nothing.
So though like 8 teams had a need and had cap space nobody offered Clint a good deal this summer so he thinks in the summer of 2019 someone is throwing 4/100 at him? Good luck with that.
Well, the main reason teams didn't court him aggressively is the understanding that we would match any offer. That would not be the case once he becomes unrestricted.
True, but that doesn't mean a team is gonna throw 25-27 mil a season his way next summer. Could happen, but it's a huge gamble if he rolls the dice on that.
Absolutely, but we see so many dumb deals go down each year that it wouldn't surprise me if someone maxed Capela out next year.
A contract to Capela's liking should be completely incentive-driven beyond the fair offer I think he was offered.
Teams offer RFA offer sheets all the time... just because he was restricted doesn't mean nobody would offer him a deal. It appears nobody thought he was worth the money they would have had to offer.
Sixers had space; re-signed Redick & took on Wilson Chandler and already have a center Bulls have space; re-signed LaVine and already have a center Hawks have space; saving it Kings have space; tried to sign LaVine & may sign Marcus Smart; don't appear to be interested in Capela Lakers had space; signed LeBron & a bunch of one-year deals Mavs had space; signed DeAndre Jordan Pacers had space; signed McDermott, Tyreke & Kyle O'Quinn & already have a center Suns had space; signed Ariza & drafted Ayton
Is it a gamble for him to find an offer sheet for 2yrs at $17m/yr with a 3rd yr Player Option? Won't the Rockets match that? That gets him $109m in 5yrs 2 yrs at Morey's $17m discount rate = $34m Ryan comes off the books Signs new contract for 3yrs at Capela/Adams $25m rate = $75m (could be more if he blossoms into a Max center)
I think that trend has clearly changed. @cyberx for example mentioned how the Lakers were interested in Capela (who they much later brought in for an interview, good scoop Cyber) but stated that they don't like dealing with the RFA bid process. They would pass on offering Capela and renounced their own RFA (Randle) - who also seemed to have no offers. Randle would have a deal soon after being renounced. This year, unlike others, there aren't teams with cap space that need a center.
They definitely could have maxed him out this year.... hell even the kings took a gamble on lavine. No one is offering Clint the max. If they did Morey would have had Chris paul lock Deandre in his houston home again. Remember Parsons? We were "supposed to match" any offer sheet. Cuban threw a redonculous contract at him expecting us to match and Morey declined . Clint is either really naive or just doesn't understand business life.
Or they could target a star like Kawhi, Butler, Love ecc...everything can happen of course, but i'm not sold on the Lakers going to offer a max to a role player, they want and need two/three stars, getting Capela on a max contract wouldn't be exactly what i expect from them...same thing for the Knicks, i expect them to go hard after Irving with a max. I think Spurs and Clippers might be bigger threats here, but it also depends on what they'll try to do, both teams might very well be rebuilding and in that scenario i'm not sure a max to Capela make sense. Dallas on the other hand...makes a ton of sense, Capela fits there very well, a younger DeAndre with more upside...i just wonder if the Mavs would prefer to keep DeAndre to, let's say a 45M 3 year deal, or Capela on 100M 4 year deal.
