Bradley Beal - Part IV

80sballboy · Post #601 » by **80sballboy** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 5:00 pm

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NatP4 · Post #602 » by **NatP4** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 5:03 pm

One free agent away? With no cap space for anything other than a vet min contract.

Post #603 » by **nate33** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 5:04 pm

Totally delusional.

"We're a free agent away"? Yeah, maybe if that free agent is Giannis. And how are you going to sign him with a third of the payroll devoted to Beal?

80sballboy · Post #604 » by **80sballboy** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 5:17 pm

Good news is that by 2025 or so, when there is a new TV deal, the cap could jump to close to $175M or more.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mortenjensen/2021/09/19/with-new-tv-deal-looming-nba-teams-could-spend-big-on-extensions/?sh=371c8f203e85

WallToWall · Post #605 » by **WallToWall** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 5:44 pm

80sballboy wrote:Good news is that by 2025 or so, when there is a new TV deal, the cap could jump to close to $175M or more.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mortenjensen/2021/09/19/with-new-tv-deal-looming-nba-teams-could-spend-big-on-extensions/?sh=371c8f203e85

That means that other teams will have more to spend as well.

payitforward · Post #606 » by **payitforward** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 5:45 pm

Right... & by far the best way to deal with that coming jump in the cap is to get a head start & sign Brad at the highest possible salary -- with a 5 year guarantee! What could possibly go wrong with that?

Post #607 » by **nate33** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 6:07 pm

80sballboy wrote:Good news is that by 2025 or so, when there is a new TV deal, the cap could jump to close to $175M or more.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mortenjensen/2021/09/19/with-new-tv-deal-looming-nba-teams-could-spend-big-on-extensions/?sh=371c8f203e85

Very interesting.

It really surprises me that the NBA thinks they can command such an expensive TV deal given the long term state of the global economy. There is a looming debt disaster and a potential decline of the dollar as the global default currency. We will see what a couple of years of high interest rates does to that optimistic projection.

80sballboy · Post #608 » by **80sballboy** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 7:08 pm

Brad is going to leave after Year 2 or 3 because So Wiz. He'll find a few teams that he wants to go to and hopefully, by then, the cap jumps at least 10 to 15 million to his contract will be more affordable.

9 and 20 · Post #609 » by **9 and 20** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 7:27 pm

80sballboy wrote:Brad is going to leave after Year 2 or 3 because So Wiz. He'll find a few teams that he wants to go to and hopefully, by then, the cap jumps at least 10 to 15 million to his contract will be more affordable.

If this is true, it's probably the best case scenario. We get Beal for last couple years of his 20's, then ship him off before he really hits the downside of his career. Not that he isn't already on the downside, it just will get worse as he hits his 30's.

I remember hitting my 30's and they hit hard. I used to be a professional backgammon player in my 20's and I was a beast. Mean left hand, even better right hand. Kyrie-level backgammon handle. Anyway, I had to retire pretty quick after I hit 32. My knees couldn't take it anymore.

FAH1223 · Post #610 » by **FAH1223** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 7:30 pm

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payitforward · Post #611 » by **payitforward** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 8:36 pm

FAH1223 wrote:

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Just called Brad the 2d guy to be a Wizard for a decade -- after Wes Unseld.

I guess John Wall (2010-11 to 2019-20) doesn't count....

Great when a franchise is "loyal" to its guys, huh?

AFM · Post #612 » by **AFM** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 8:38 pm

payitforward wrote:
FAH1223 wrote:

Watch on YouTube

Entire presser

Just called Brad the 2d guy to be a Wizard for a decade -- after Wes Unseld.

I guess John Wall (2010-11 to 2019-20) doesn't count....

Great when a franchise is "loyal" to its guys, huh?

I mean, they threw Wall under the bus for a gang sign in a snapchat video.

payitforward · Post #613 » by **payitforward** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 8:39 pm

nate33 wrote:Totally delusional.

"We're a free agent away"? Yeah, maybe if that free agent is Giannis. And how are you going to sign him with a third of the payroll devoted to Beal?

A free agent away from... what?

Add Giannis to this team, & they still might not win the East. But, of course, he can't mean Giannis; he's not a FA.

payitforward · Post #614 » by **payitforward** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 8:42 pm

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The Wizards are now Ted's "focus." That's what I call a nightmare....

Wizardspride · Post #615 » by **Wizardspride** » Fri Jul 8, 2022 9:27 pm

payitforward wrote:
FAH1223 wrote:

Watch on YouTube

Entire presser

Just called Brad the 2d guy to be a Wizard for a decade -- after Wes Unseld.

I guess John Wall (2010-11 to 2019-20) doesn't count....

Great when a franchise is "loyal" to its guys, huh?

Don't get me started.... :nonono:

thinker07 · Post #616 » by **thinker07** » Sat Jul 9, 2022 1:17 am

trast66 wrote:Since Ted’s majority ownership started in June 2010, the Wizards have the 21st best winning percentage in the league. I’d expect that to hold over the term of Brads contract. Ernie and Tommy are willing collaborators and just as guilty as their owner.

Tommy is not akin to the Vichy government in France in WWII. He has a job and he has a boss like many other people have in life. He tries to do the job the way the man who pays him wants. He should quit because if it were his team he'd run it differently? Come on, that's ridiculous

NatP4 · Post #617 » by **NatP4** » Sat Jul 9, 2022 4:23 am

Wall played 9 total seasons for the wizards. Beal has played in 10.

FAH1223 · Post #618 » by **FAH1223** » Sat Jul 9, 2022 4:55 pm

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FAH1223 · Post #619 » by **FAH1223** » Sat Jul 9, 2022 5:31 pm

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payitforward · Post #620 » by **payitforward** » Sat Jul 9, 2022 5:42 pm

NatP4 wrote:Wall played 9 total seasons for the wizards. Beal has played in 10.

I can count, Nat.
John Wall was drafted in June 2010.
In June 2020 he was still a Wizard. 10 years.

Later that year, in December, he was traded.

Of course, if you're a punk organization like the Wizards, & you want to diss a guy today whom you were all about loving just yesterday, then you do like Ted did &, punk that you are, you don't give that guy his place in your history.