BK_2020 wrote:JediMasterRevan wrote:BK_2020 wrote:You can't use TPE to sign players and no productive vet wing will sign for the tax payer's MLE.
Lauri is horrible. Also, forgetting about all the other complications of a SnT, the very idea of signing Lauri to a big enough contract to match salaries with Kemba is just awful.
I honestly don't think you have ever seen these people play basketball.
Lauri is in a bad situation can could be a buy low candidate and is an upgrade to Grant Williams.
Dont have to match salaries because Chicago has capspace that allows them to take more salary in than out. so Lauri would not get anywhere near what Kemba does.
You can do sign and trades into the tpe for players. We have discussed this on this forum ad nauseam. It should be common knowledge that when someone stats that you can sign a player into the TPE that it is just a short form way of saying complete a "complete a sign and trade with a team for a player by using our TPE and a 2nd or 2 so that the team losing the player gets something to trade down in the road as opposed to losing the free agent for nothing"
Get it?
Good.
I couldn't disagree more.
Grant Williams can stay with his man and switch 3-5. Lauri cannot stay in front of centers. By block % Lauri is a significantly worse rim defender than Grant Williams. Lauri is also a terrible rebounder for his size. He's a downgrade over Grant in every way possible.
We are looking at $112 mil or so for 2021-2022 cap space. Even if the Bulls waive Arci, Sato and Thad, they have like $90 mil. committed. They can't absorb Kemba into cap space.
Go talk to anyone in the world and try to get them to agree that Lauri Markannen is a downgrade to Grant WIlliams in every possible way and try to get them to agree with you. Go post it on the general board and see how many people agree with you on that.
What a terrible, awful take.
And I never stated that Chicago would take all of kemba into their capspace. Do you even read posts before responding? I said that Boston would not have to recieve back equal amounts of salary in a deal with Chicago as they can take on more salary than send out.
24 VOoch
19.5 LAvine
10.1 Aminu
7.4 Williams
5.8 White
5.1 Brown Jr
71.9 mill
All the guaranteed contracts.
14.1 Young
10 Sato
24.1
Javonte and Makoka are gone
Lets assume they keep Arcidiacono (3 mill)
Total salary 99 mill
Expected cap is 115.7 million
Available room (outside of Lauries Caphold) is ~17 million
Capspace available to sign a new player or to take on more salary than send out.
And I also said Lauri +.
Lauri and Brown Jr (Lauri at 14 mill per season) would be ~20 million outgoing and incoming of ~36 million.
Works