Arsenal wrote:M2J wrote:Arsenal wrote:
I’m not paying Melton $10m with his health in question. Vet min with a player option so he keeps his bird rights to get paid in case he bounces back.
Oubre for room exception would be good.
On a 1 year controlled deal, Melton worth that flyer unless his 1 year deal prevents a better signing.
I'm not giving him $10m in cap if we are an under-the-cap team. If we figure out a way to stay over the cap then $10m for one year is fine via Bird Rights.
Any deal would be via Bird Rights. What I said before was that because his cap hold is $15 million, it actually makes sense to sign him early (via Bird Rights) to a lesser deal because his actual salary would be less than the cap hold, thus opening up more space.
Now if his back is ****, then sure, release the cap hold. But if the plan is to bring back Melton, releasing his cap hold and then re-signing him into cap space doesn't make much sense unless they just strike out everywhere.