Texas Chuck wrote:Godaddycurse wrote:jayjaysee wrote:
Yeah, unless you’re just saying Powell doesn’t belong on an NBA roster (plenty have said that) I don’t see how his contract can be that big a negative? Isn’t his minimum contract like 2.5-2.8 million? He’s a bigger negative to teams trying to skate the tax or apron or maximize cap space, of course.. But if none of those things factor in..
He can only be like 2.5 million over paid combined over the next two years to a team that wants a decent deep bench big that can play big minutes sometimes?
Unless he’s just not an NBA player?
His archtype imo is just not valued at all these days as a traditional big who doesn't protect the rim or rebound that well. He wouldnt get minutes on playoff teams and rebuilding teams are better off giving minutes to develop youngsters.
I think he's perfect on a young team. Works harder than everyone. Smart, great teammates. Has deficiencies as a player for sure, but he does two things a young team would want from a vet -- he plays all out every play on both ends and his elite rim running helps a young guard you want to develop.
Agree he has no place in a playoff rotation. But I can't imagine Dwight Powell can't be worth a roster spot in a league where Jordan, Morris, Boban, Taj, etc still have one.
a) those players are all making the minimum
b) they dont have multiple years guaranteed
if you want to insist you can pay a team cash to take him on, you're probably not wrong but based on previous cash for pick transactions a 2nd is basicalyl worth the cash you'd be spending to dump him so i'm not sure what we're arguing about.