Household names G.Trent Jr Cam Thomas G.Vincent B.Beal J.Clarkson K.Middleton M.Thybulle A.Holiday Old stiff farts D.McDermott K.Olynyk N.Batum K.Love Seth Curry Younger guys who haven't made a name for themselves Jett Howard Keaton Wallace Lindy Waters J.Pickett O.Agbaji Antonio Reeves A.Coffey N.Smith Probably more guys who belong in this last list, but I just genuinely don't know who they are. And then there might be random vet mins around the league teams are looking to dump (for example, I'd give the Bucks a call for Prince. At least 2 of them unless we go into the tax to sign a 15th man, in that case could bring back 3 of them. We also have JD Davison on a completely NG contract that I didn't factor into that equation.
What's the deal with Curry? Lifetime .433 from 3. Didn't play much for the Warriors last year, but the season before with Charlotte he shot .456 from 3 on 182 attempts -- no small sample size. His career 3-pt percentage is literally the 2nd best of any active player behind Kennard, and 7th best in NBA history. So according to shots he's actually taken and made, he's a dead-eye sharpshooter in a league that is desperately searching for them. Can he possibly be THAT bad on defense? Can anyone be bad enough to nullify shooting like that?
Exactly. If Reed gets mid 30s money he has exploded and the team is likely doing really well and not worried about paying extra tax money. I don't think KD is getting a big contract after his current one. He'll be 40 in thst next season. His best bet would be if he had zero drop off this season and turns down his player option to play at a lower salary and get maybe 1 more year out of it.
I posted this elsewhere, but I thought it would be worth discussing in this thread. Currently, the Rockets have over 198m in standard contracts between 13 players, broken down as follows: Six Guards (FVV, Sheppard, Smart, Bogdan, Davison, Thronton) Three forwards (Bari, Eason, Durant) Three Centers (Sengun, Adams, Capela) One combo guard/forward in Amen Given this, Rockets reportedly are 2.3m dollars under the tax. I'm guessing they will want to avoid the tax this year because they will likely pay it next year with Amen's extension and would be designated as repeaters if they pay it this year. This is what's interesting: a veteran minimum contract is capped at $2,449,421 against the cap, which would seemingly push us a little into the tax (assuming reports about our cap space are correct). Perhaps Eason's contract is structured in such a way that the Rockets will be able to sign a vet minimum and just say under the tax with 14 players.
Updated. This relies heavily on Spotrac, Bobby Marks, and Yossi's work with me just putting the numbers in a spreadsheet. I've lowered Reed's extension a little. As a small guard, I am expecting a typical large jump between years 2 and 3 (maybe about half as big as between 1 and 2). Reed getting a lower number is likely worse for the Rockets. Changed rookie minimums to 2-year vet minimums. This looks like Davison is getting waived, and either he or someone else is re-signed for the vet minimum. These numbers could also be off slightly such that maybe Rockets can add 14 salary and be fine as is or maybe waiving Davison and signing a vet minimum isn't enough.
Few others have said it but yeah, no way Reed will be making anything near $30M+. Closer to Tari territory. Maaayybe between Tari/Bari. Ameiz ($35M-$40M) Sengun ($35M-$39M) Jabari ($23M-$27M) Tari ($14M-$18M) Reed ($13M-$17M)
