dean456 wrote:gom wrote:Feel_the_Heat15 wrote:How can the Heat keep Bam, Robinson, Nunn and Jones Jr. while offering a max contract to a player in 2021? Think you got to let Jones Jr. go.
There is space for a 25% or 30% max if Jones is signed to a MLE.
Don’t take Iggy’s option for $15m.
Renounce Olynyk bird rights.
Take Herro’s option ($4,004,280) and maybe Silva's.
Butler (36,016,200)
Adebayo max (25%). Assuming $125m cap. $31.25m.
Team:
Bam ($31.25m), Butler ($36m), Herro ($4,004,280 TO), Okpala ($1,782,621), (Silva TO, $1,782,621)
Cap holds:
Nunn: cap hold: $2,122,822 (restricted bird)
Duncan: cap hold: $2,122,822 (restricted bird)
7 incomplete roster charges: (about $10.5m)
79m spent. 46m under cap before signing 7 players.
That's enough to sign a max player with room to spare.
25% of 125 = $31.25m (yes)
30% of 125 = $37.5m (yes)
35% of 125 = $44m (nope)
Your missing DJJr's $10mil, our 2020 picks $2.3mil and we don't have to extend Bam this off season do we? That way his cap hold only counts for $15.3mil to our 2021 cap space.
Butler - $36mil
Bam - $15mil (cap hold)
DJJr - $10mil
Herro - $4mil
2020 pick - $2.3mil
Nunn - $2.1mil (cap hold)
Robinson - $2.1mil (cap hold)
Silva - $1.7mil
Okpala - $1.7mil
Ryan Anderson Stretch - $5.2mil
3x min roster charge - $3.1mil
Total without rounding numbers = $84,555,783
Salary cap = 125mil (roughly)
Cap space remaining = $40,444,262
I will once again say this, I hate the idea of the 2021 plan and basically not taking advantage of this team winning early on in the season. Miami is 11-11 in the last 22 games, going 2-0 in OT games, meaning they could easily be 9-13 their last 22 games.
If 2021 is the "goal" and it's so much of a goal you just punted this year's season instead of getting Gallo to give this team a real chance, what in the )(%$#@ did this FO really accomplish by trading for Butler other than... have a worse situation in 2021 for whatever max guy they wanted. Let's look at Butler, in 2021 he'll be paid 36 million at 32 years old instead of having Richardson and Justise in their primes on very reasonable contracts(and a couple more years of development). To acquire Butler Miami sent out a 1st round pick to make the money work while sending out Whiteside who would have expired after this year.
So, in the summer of 2021, Miami has replaced a 25-year-old Winslow at 13 mil, a 28 year or Richardson with a 16 mil cap hold and a 1st round pick for a 32-year-old Butler at 36 million. This 2021 plan of keeping cap space available makes no sense with the acquisition of Butler. Now if Riley has decided that Gallo was too much and he's going to make a big splash this summer, I can wrap my head around that, but if it's another stand pat year for that 2021 cap space, bringing in Jimmy Butler was nothing more then to dangle hope for 2 seasons while watching this team ALMOST have enough to do something really special. It is ENTIRELY possible that this team does worse next year if Miami loses some depth say... Dragic, Olynyk, DJJ, Crowder, and/or Leonard... while Brooklyn gets KD back and maybe a healthy Irving and leapfrogs Miami in the standings, the 2021 plan is going to look very stupid(cap space with a team regressing and a maxed vet at age 32).
Hopefully, the Memphis trade and getting nearly 30 million off the books next season means only this year with Butler wasn't capitalized on and Miami makes another big trade this summer.
Once again... if the 2021 plan was so damn important, why jettison a 1st round pick and 2 promising young players on good value contracts to end up with a guy who will be 32 and be owed 73 million the next 2 seasons. Either capitalize on your ability to acquire a player like Butler(who is nearing the end of his prime) or don't acquire him and stick to your plan.
