Exum back to the Rockets

[K_chile22]

I really love them using +/- as one of the "likely" incentives here, knowing that they'll be so bad he won't hit it lol

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I'm assuming they nailed these down better than they did with that aborted Nene contract?

Yeah, that deal had win based bonuses that made it to where if he got traded to a team that didn't win 53 games the season prior, all Nene's likely bonuses converted into unlikely bonuses, which made him count as only the minimum in incoming salary, but the full $10M outgoing. Think that bit of trickery is what got it struck down.

Bobby Marks said this one is similar but will be accepted and that's the only functional difference I see here (besides optics of a guy obviously heading into retirement signing that deal)

[Scoot McGroot]

I really love them using +/- as one of the "likely" incentives here, knowing that they'll be so bad he won't hit it lol

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They’d have to be low enough in the contract that he hit them last year, or else they wouldn’t be terms as “likely to be earned” at signing. Which, he averaged 19.3 minutes per game last year, though he only played in 6. And his +- was pretty good, probably because of the super small sample size. If they put no minimum amount of games played, then yeah, this appears to likely be a contract for Exum to be a larger tradeable salary this year, and then to have his number re-assessed down in the end of year luxury tax calculations for missing his bonuses.

Will still be interested to see how it’s structured. Really wonder if it’s not just 15% bonuses total and his base salary is a bit higher than we imagine.