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Little bit of a misleading headline. Rudy Gobert can’t smell things from afar.

Hopefully other teams are overlooking us too.

StickeeFingaz wrote:Little bit of a misleading headline. Rudy Gobert can’t smell things from afar.

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CBS power rankings today mentioned Lou Williams is contemplating sitting out. I don't recall having seen that before but seems a big loss. Of course that makes LAL path easier but from the Bucks perspective I guess having both LA teams down a player helps. And neither is the 'star' so the narrative stuff isn't a big deal. That said, I'd still guess Williams plays. the pressure to play on a true title contender will be too much. But, I also don't know his reasonings or anything, like if there is a specific family reason of some kind.

DingleJerry wrote:CBS power rankings today mentioned Lou Williams is contemplating sitting out. I don't recall having seen that before but seems a big loss. Of course that makes LAL path easier but from the Bucks perspective I guess having both LA teams down a player helps. And neither is the 'star' so the narrative stuff isn't a big deal. That said, I'd still guess Williams plays. the pressure to play on a true title contender will be too much. But, I also don't know his reasonings or anything, like if there is a specific family reason of some kind.

I think 6/24 was the opt-out deadline?

emunney wrote:

DingleJerry wrote:CBS power rankings today mentioned Lou Williams is contemplating sitting out. I don't recall having seen that before but seems a big loss. Of course that makes LAL path easier but from the Bucks perspective I guess having both LA teams down a player helps. And neither is the 'star' so the narrative stuff isn't a big deal. That said, I'd still guess Williams plays. the pressure to play on a true title contender will be too much. But, I also don't know his reasonings or anything, like if there is a specific family reason of some kind.

I think 6/24 was the opt-out deadline?

Woj said teams were treating 6/24 as a soft deadline. I believe hard deadline is 7/1 when official rosters are due.

Williams had previously said he was 50-50 on returning so I assume CBS is operating off that information.

I think the 6/24 deadline is mostly so that teams can sign players to fill roster spots for those opting out. And if Williams was opting out, I imagine the Clippers would probably give Jamal Crawford a call

I’m sure Woj will clarify the next player is opting out “To focus on building birdhouses with his nieces and nephews” or something. Definitely not because of the pandemic.

DAJJ tests positive. Do we have a list of all the positive players who aren’t coming back this year?

Bucknado wrote:DAJJ tests positive. Do we have a list of all the positive players who aren’t coming back this year?

Every player whose team is not a contender and who has at least $25 million in the bank right now from prior earnings.

There, that’s your list.

Ariza, Bertans, WCS, Bradley, D. Jordan, & Wilson Chandler.

Looks like Dinwiddie will be added to the list very soon.

I couldn't laugh hard enough if Zion pulled out.

Always appreciate the players who choose to effectively communicate their own message.

My guess is there is a pay difference if they "opt out" as a healthy scratch vs too sick to play with illness.

midranger wrote:My guess is there is a pay difference if they "opt out" as a healthy scratch vs too sick to play with illness.

There is. Opting out when healthy results in forfeiture of 1.08% of a player's annual salary for each game missed. Players who are too sick/injured to play receive their full salary for the games they have to miss.

ElPeregrino wrote:

midranger wrote:My guess is there is a pay difference if they "opt out" as a healthy scratch vs too sick to play with illness.

There is. Opting out when healthy results in forfeiture of 1.08% of a player's annual salary for each game missed. Players who are too sick/injured to play receive their full salary for the games they have to miss.

They only lose 1% of their salary if they are a healthy scratch? Seems like that’s an incentive not to play. If my company said sit at home and enjoy your time off and it only costs me 1%? I’m doing it in a second


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steger_3434 wrote:

ElPeregrino wrote:

midranger wrote:My guess is there is a pay difference if they "opt out" as a healthy scratch vs too sick to play with illness.

There is. Opting out when healthy results in forfeiture of 1.08% of a player's annual salary for each game missed. Players who are too sick/injured to play receive their full salary for the games they have to miss.

They only lose 1% of their salary if they are a healthy scratch? Seems like that’s an incentive not to play. If my company said sit at home and enjoy your time off and it only costs me 1%? I’m doing it in a second


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1% for each game missed. Opting out of the entire season means losing between 9-15% depending on how far their team goes in the playoffs.