Yeah, I can't see an SNT deal with HOU unless they were trying to dump Lin on us and I couldn't see us picking up Lin's balloon payment in the '14-'15 season. It'd have to be with another team. The only possibility I see right now is if MIL was trying to make a big move in the off-season and kept Monta, Reddick, Jennings, and still went fishing for Smoove.
HartfordWhalers wrote:So the scenario is the best 4 year contract that Josh can get is 10m a year for 4 years, but Atlanta is willing to pay an 18m a year 1 year deal?
Okay, I guess in that situation it does seems reasonable, even likely that he takes 18m for 1 year. However, that scenario sounds pretty absurd.
To hit the salary floor. Between 6 draft picks last year and this, Selvin Mack, L Williams, and Horford, we have 9 players under contract for about $25M. If we strike out in FA, then we'd have to spend approximately $30M somewhere and pulling a deal like Kaman's current one with DAL between ATL and Smoove could make logical sense for both parties. If Smoove moves on, then we'd probably give the $$ to someone else anyway - why not give it to the hometown kid to keep him around another year?
Run PDX wrote:I was thinking that Atlanta might be able to work out a way to have Dwight Howard, Josh Smith, and Chris Paul... if they trade Al Horford to a team with cap space - like Dallas, Portland, or Sacramento.
Would Atlanta take #10, cap space, and Wes Matthews for Al Horford and filler?
We wouldn't do the deal until we knew that Howard and Paul we're coming which would be after the draft (so #10 wouldn't be part of the deal). Also, the offer couldn't include any $$ coming back so that we could have the room to sign the 3. So the deal as stated would be a "no". I'd imagine that if we were getting the top 2 FA's and Smoove though, then we'd got some decent offers in a Horford for pure cap space deal since the teams that would have been shopping for these guys just got left empty handed. OTOH, I'd think that every ATL fan would prefer to hold Horford to pair with Dwight than pair him with Smoove, but there are obvious complications there. There are a lot of scenarios there...