It does impact our ability to sign free agents. There's a salary cap and Ryan Anderson won't be an easy contract to move. Will get worse as he approaches 30 and continues to be injury prone.
The cap is going up, and Anderson's contract is market value for what someone with his skillset gets in this environment. Ryan Anderson is not going to hinder us from signing a max free agent, if someone like Hayward or Griffin decides he wants to come here. And, on top of that, if he continues to shoot 40% from 3 for 70+ games every season, there would be absolutely ZERO reason to move him.
It may be "market value" and there may be no reason to trade him, but he's also not a great "asset" that Morey usually collects and flips for something better. As far as signing a star in the offseason, if we have to clear cap room I'm not sure we'll be able to get rid of Ryno
Well in that regard, neither was Eric Gordon or Nene. But, coming off the disastrous season last year, he had to build a team around Harden, and the best way to do that was to surround him with hard-working veterans who could shoot. I don't think every move from Morey should be looked at from an asset-management standpoint. Sometimes you have to overpay for a commodity even though you know down the line, it's going to depreciate at a rapid rate.
Per 36 mins/game for their careers, they're about the same. D-Mo out-rebounds Ryno by a whopping 0.1 rebound/game.
Morey is ok with overpaying if it's a last piece we need to contend. Howeer there was a lot of speculation that these were Les-influenced moves. We actually missed on our initial targets (Durant, Horford, Bazemore. Bogut too).
