Jamaaliver wrote:dms269 wrote:He is still under contract for these next 3 seasons. Lakers don't have enough to offer.
Trae Young has an opt out clause 2 summers from now.
With only 2 years left under team control,
he could make things very uncomfortable for the Hawks over the next 12 months.
jayu70 wrote:Why does this video seem familiar to me?
For some reason I think this is the same video from last season's playoffs.
I hope you're right.
I'm OK with that!
Ressler and FO need to figure this out....no more half measures and being an unserious franchise.
They have not used all of their resources that they had available AT THE START of this season for Ressler's comments regarding to "being a top 6 team and AVOID THE PLAY-IN."
These were all the options available at the start of the league year July 1st 2023:
1. The John Collins TPE of $25 million - they used $2 million of it when they traded for Garuba or Tyty
2. The MLE of $12.4 million
3. The Bi-Annual exception of $4.5 million
4. The rest of the Huerter TPE of $3.6 million
5. Mo Harkless TPE of $4.6 million
6. The Justin Holiday TPE $6.2 million which they allowed to expire on 02/09/2024
7. The John Collins TPE of $25.3 million - they have since used $2 million of it when they traded for Tyty who they then turned around and traded for another small TPE which expires 07/12/2024.
8. We currently still sit $9.1 million under this season's Luxury Tax.
And again, this is not me saying to run head first into the Luxury Tax just to do it. But when the
INTENTION IS ALWAYS TO AVOID IT NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE it will always leave me wanting more. (and again just because you start a season over the tax does not mean you end the league year over). I just want us to have a fighting chance at the start of the season. Not behind the 8-ball from the jump because we left talent leave that hasn't been replaced. We've gotten no oncourt value from the Huerter trade, now we have to wait another for the pick, and if history tells us anything, we'll wait then another 3 years before that player picked is contributing.
I live for the day when we start the season with a chance to be considered having a championship worthy team instead of happy to avoid the play-in team.
We just seem like a rudderless ship flowing with the current with no real plan.
[Apologies for the ramble
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