Kings aren't taking on Anderson. Stop. Bobby Marks: Here is the updated cap breakdown for Sacramento: The Kings now have a league high $20.5M in room after acquiring Ben McLemore and Deyonta Davis. McLemore is in the last year of his contract with a $5.4M cap hit. Davis has a $1.5M cap hit and is also in the last year of his contract. The Kings now have 14 guaranteed contracts. Here is the updated cap breakdown in Memphis: The Grizzlies gain an extra roster and the expiring $8M contract of Garrett Temple. Memphis now has 14 guaranteed contracts and a partial in Andrew Harrison. The Grizzlies are now $949K below the luxury tax and $6.5M below the tax apron. Recently signed Jevon Carter has a two-year guaranteed contract at $838k and $1.M.
Happy to hear this may still be an option, but the thing is ...at this point, what does it get us except saving Tilman millions (not that that isn't important) ...and maybe less awkwardness from a team dynamic standpoint?
A happy owner will allow Morey to take more risks in the future. If Morey can save Tilman $20 million of tax money that will go a long way in allowing Morey to add money down the line.
Trade talks with several teams continue on, with traction slowly, surely gathering with teams offers on a star insisting that he wants to play for the Los Angeles Lakers. If the Spurs are losing deal leverage, they aren't operating in a manner that suggests they're peddling a depreciating asset. San Antonio has been determined in demanding a sizable return on Leonard. Still, the bidding war among Boston, Philadelphia and Los Angeles Lakers never materialized. The Los Angeles Clippers, Denver, Phoenix, Portland, Toronto and Washington are among teams who've talked with San Antonio, league sources said. As examples, no Blazers' package includes Damian Lillard or CJ McCollum, league sources said. For a player who teams fear could be a one-year rental, many offers are modified. So far, the Sixers have held out three players -- Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons and Markelle Fultz - in talks. Boston hasn't included five players, including Jayson Tatum, Jalen Brown, Kyrie Irving, Gordon Hayward and Al Horford. The Celtics and Sixers have offered pick-heavy packages that haven't moved the Spurs, league sources said. Recently, there's been less traction around the possibility of the Celtics and Sixers' talks with the Spurs. Those teams are well-positioned for the future, and aren't in the marketplace to be risktakers. And Leonard - with his murky health, his desire to be in Los Angeles - constitutes a risk on some levels. So far, the Lakers are playing the longer game in trade talks, confident in the belief that Leonard wants to play with them and plans to sign in free agency in July of 2019. Through conversations with opposing teams, it appears that the Spurs want to bring back an All-Star caliber player, high-potential young players and draft assets in a Leonard deal. For now, the threshold on a trade is considerable and it remains unclear if the marketplace will command such a significant return. Besides Leonard's desire to play in Los Angeles, his non-communicative personality makes a season-long recruitment pitch post-trade - like Oklahoma City did with Paul George - less likely to gather traction. Around Leonard, there have been suggestions that he has no intention of entering the Spurs practice facility again, which rival teams consider an empty threat unless he's willing to incur a forfeiture of his $20 million salary and fines. The Spurs haven't allowed prospective trade partners to talk directly with Leonard, nor his representation --- and it's unlikely that permission will be granted without an agreement in principle on a deal to acquire Leonard - if even then. In most NBA deals, no medical information is exchanged until an agreement on trade parameters is reached. The Spurs had always hoped that the five-year, $221 million super-max extension would be too tempting to turn down. Fresh off a June trade demand, San Antonio had resisted offering that contract in part because of Leonard's anger toward the organization, his unwillingness to consider the possibility of a future together. For now, there's no extension, no trade and no clarity on Kawhi Leonard's future with the San Antonio Spurs. The NBA's most dramatic divide remains unresolved ---- with a national team mini-camp possibly the next mile post on the path.
If it's about an offer sheet it's going to be for Capela, no way they open up 20M for Smart, 10/12 would be probably enough to make Ainge renounce to him.
