oyoyer wrote:thinktellectual wrote:Spurs have 21 million committed for next season WITH Splitter's 8+ mil included.
Kawhi will eat up 15 mil or so (don't know exactly what the max is, but he'll get it).
That's 36 out of 67 ? 70 ?
Give Aldridge the max, and if Gasol wants to play for them, offer him the max and get the Grizzlies to do an S&T for Splitter's decent deal.
I think there's a way for them to sign Aldridge as a FA without renouncing all of their FAs, so they can afterwards still do a trade for Gasol and resign Parker and Green. Duncan would probably accept a lot less salary and play a backup role.
And if you can't keep Parker, screw it.
PGs are a dime a dozen these days.
You roll with Kawhi, Gasol and Aldridge and some back-up PGs and sign a PG in 2016 when the cap jumps and they'd suddenly have cap space again.
Ummmm... The Spurs already inked Parker to a nice big extension. Enjoy that, Spurs fans. Legacy contracts don't often turn out well.
EDIT: The Spurs have 34m in committed contracts (Parker, Splitter, Diaw, Mills, Anderson), and even if the cap does go to 70m you still to have add in all their cap holds and draft picks. I imagine right now just between Duncan, Ginobli, and Leonard's holds they are already at or over the cap.
Yep, just went and found the cap holds... Get ready for this...
Tim Duncan PF $15,542,169
Manu Ginobili SG $10,500,000
Danny Green SG $7,647,500
Kawhi Leonard SF $4,045,894
Marco Belinelli SG $3,735,875
Cory Joseph PG $3,034,091
Aron Baynes PF $2,596,250
Jeff Ayres PF $2,377,375
Matt Bonner PF $947,276
That equals a fine sum of $50,426,430 (via Spotrac). That puts them at a tidy cap number of over 84m PLUS their 1st round pick. So, sorry to say, no cap room unless BOTH of Duncan and Ginobli retire. Also note this doesn't factor in the huge raise Leonard is getting.