ray ray wrote:Afflalo is going to want about 5-8 mil a year, Chandler is going to want about the same. Nene is looking for about 12-15 mil a year and keyon is going to want about 7-10. That's close to 32mil off salary for those four. Then you add the 40mil already in the books. That's also not counting JR Smith.
I would love to find out where you seen that Nene is wanting 12-15 million per year, every report I have seen says he wants $11 per year and I do not see any way in hell he gets more then Horford or Noah got last year. Martin is not going to get $7-10 it is much more likely he gets $5-6 million for the next 2 years. Also Nene's players option is included in the $41.6 million in salary, meaning he would have to opt out, which he has already said he was not going to do. However lets us your numbers, figure Afflalo and Chandler both start at about $7 million, KMart gets $7 million, and Nene gets $12, That only puts the nuggets at $63 million in payroll, which is more then enough to still use the MLE or part of the TPE without going into the tax if the numbers were to stay the same. Hell the nuggets could even resign JR, keep their draft pick if they wanted.
Realistically Afflalo and Chandler both may get around $7 million a year, but with both being restricted and the Nuggets wanting to keep both I doubt anybody gets stupid and has them as their primary targets, if they do they will more then likely be disappointed.
Nene is not going to get more then Horford or noah, in all likelihood he ends up getting somewhere around $11 per year without opting out so his contract so he will be paid $11.6 million next season.
Kmart will more then likely resign for $6 million a year for 3 years or so, if the nuggets choose to keep him they can easily do it.
Add them all up together the Nuggets will have to spend about $30 million, only adding about $19 million for KMart, Afflalo, and Chandler. Adding in the cap hold from the draft pick, the Nuggets will be at about $61 million in payroll. Which is lower then the league average which I believe is right around $64 million, and is $23 million lower then the payroll they started this year with, and is $6 million less then they will end up with this year.