We are paying like $70 million next year to three dudes to be role models to our young players (and Brooks isn't even a good role model, at least by public accounts). These three are probably worth half that in statistical, on-court production. This is like the most anti-analytics strategy ever. Stone's Oedipal revenge against Morey.
So what could we reasonably do with that MLE since we saved it? And what are we likely to do with it?
New practice facility. “We came close with a lot of guys we really wanted, but those guys just decided to go a different direction”
Absolutely terrible move. Not Green himself. Great leader. Just the way all these moves were handled. The Rockets are paying a guy 16 million for 2 years when he made 9 million combined the last 2. Didn't tsign him or Landale into the room MLE. You're telling me Green wouldn't have accepted 2/14? I have no issues with the players who were signed. The way they were signed and the poor asset management to get them signed is atrocious. Looks like Stone is paying a Rockets tax for the toxic environment he created.
To be fair, there isn't anyone else to pay $8 million. Next year is not guaranteed so it's not a bad contract.
After hearing Draymond and PG talk to Jaime about the importance of vets, this was a great pick up. This is the guy all our young studs will speak of one day when they themselves are vets.
I mean the overpay has more to do with the new CBA rules that require a certain amount of spending. It's unfortunate it happened this off-season in a really weak free agency class.
Team needed to reach salary floor and pay guys to want to play here. There you go. Rockets are not an attractive destination for free agents if the money isnt right lets get real with ourselves.
Brian Windhorst said yesterday on his podcast Jeff Green's contract is totally non-guaranteed 2 years and $16m. Why would Green sign that? I'm guessing at least the first year becomes guaranteed on a certain date. Maybe non-guaranteed to start the season.
Probably confident he can still get a vet min deal somewhere else if we cut him, so no real downside for him--either he makes a lot more money than anyone else would pay him, or he's in the same boat he would be anyway.
Overpay, but hopefully, he can impart some wisdom from playing with Jokic to our squad, because Alpi should be used like Jokic.
Possibly nothing until later in the year? Wait for buyout season and see if there is anyone out there worth picking up for the MLE (or a portion of it?).
Pretty much a walking trade exception that can be held through the draft and free agency next year. You are obviously overpaying for the sake of flexibility and minimizing downside; you could do anything from trading him at the deadline for draft capital (Ala Eric Gordon), take on bad salary while returning a rotation-level player (the Iman Shumpert/ Brandon Knight deal), or use him next year as significant non-guaranteed salary filler in a sign-and-trade (Jaylen Brown). I like this move, but I'm generally of the mind that there's no such thing as a bad 1-year deal, as long as you're willing to eat the cost of the excess salary.
