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More flexibility we won’t use!

MagicFan101 wrote:More flexibility we won’t use!

I honestly don’t know who they’d use it on and why.

Maybe we can use this to sign a PG?

Can the one we got for Issac and this be combined? Or did the first one expire? I personally think a vet point guard or someone to protect the paint would be good investments.

The Magic are only 2.8M under the luxury tax.

There's a zero percent chance they'll go over the tax on a team this far under .500.

The only way they'll use either one of their DPE's is if they make a trade that significantly decreases their salary commitment and keeps them far away from the tax.

Something like Gordon (18.1M) to Boston into their Hayward TPE and a couple of their rookie contract guys like Langford (3.6M) and Nesmith (3.4M) where the Magic shed 11M in one swoop.

If they did something like that, then they could make a second trade where acquire someone in the final year of their contract making up to 6M for nothing.

Unfortunately the list of players making more than the minimum, but less than 6.1M is pretty slim pickings.

Daniel Theis
Bismack Biyombo
Garrett Temple
Denzel Valentine
JaVale McGee
Boban Marjanovic
Ben McLemore
TJ McConnell
Patrick Patterson
Wesley Matthews
Alex Caruso
Maurice Harkless
Ed Davis
Alec Burks
Nerlens Noel
Elfrid Payton
Reggie Bullock
Mike Muscala
Mike Scott
Enes Kanter
Richaun Holmes
Trey Lyles
Patrick McCaw
Stanley Johnson
Ish Smith
Jerome Robinson

this front office will waive at it as it disappears

tiderulz wrote:this front office will waive at it as it disappears

Music to the ears of the "Fade for Cade" and "Sucks for Suggs" tanks.

Knightro wrote:The Magic are only 2.8M under the luxury tax.

There's a zero percent chance they'll go over the tax on a team this far under .500.

The only way they'll use either one of their DPE's is if they make a trade that significantly decreases their salary commitment and keeps them far away from the tax.

Something like Gordon (18.1M) to Boston into their Hayward TPE and a couple of their rookie contract guys like Langford (3.6M) and Nesmith (3.4M) where the Magic shed 11M in one swoop.

If they did something like that, then they could make a second trade where acquire someone in the final year of their contract making up to 6M for nothing.

Unfortunately the list of players making more than the minimum, but less than 6.1M is pretty slim pickings.

Daniel Theis
Bismack Biyombo
Garrett Temple
Denzel Valentine
JaVale McGee
Boban Marjanovic
Ben McLemore
TJ McConnell
Patrick Patterson
Wesley Matthews
Alex Caruso
Maurice Harkless
Ed Davis
Alec Burks
Nerlens Noel
Elfrid Payton
Reggie Bullock
Mike Muscala
Mike Scott
Enes Kanter
Richaun Holmes
Trey Lyles
Patrick McCaw
Stanley Johnson
Ish Smith
Jerome Robinson

You forgot Dennis Smith

Max Power wrote:Can the one we got for Issac and this be combined? Or did the first one expire? I personally think a vet point guard or someone to protect the paint would be good investments.

These cannot be combined. But they can be part of "linked" trades. That is TPE #1 is used for trade-A but only if TPE #2 is also used for trade-B. The main limitation is that both trades individually must be acceptable on their own even if inseparable to completion.

MasterGMer wrote:Maybe we can use this to sign a PG?

I can only see a 6M TPE being used for a PG if there was also a rate that pared back salary. That would mean, for example, Aminu for a 4M a year player.

They mostly applied for this as a just in case or something to use after a Trade.

These next two months are mostly about the development of Cole Anthony, Mo Bamba and Chuma Okeke along with Trade Deadline speculation.

Howard Mass wrote:They mostly applied for this as a just in case or something to use after a Trade.

These next two months are mostly about the development of Cole Anthony, Mo Bamba and Chuma Okeke along with Trade Deadline speculation.

As long as Vuc and Clifford are here, that is not going to happen.

thelead wrote:

Howard Mass wrote:They mostly applied for this as a just in case or something to use after a Trade.

These next two months are mostly about the development of Cole Anthony, Mo Bamba and Chuma Okeke along with Trade Deadline speculation.

As long as Vuc and Clifford are here, that is not going to happen.

At worst, I think Mo Bamba will get backup center minutes.