BobbieL wrote:bwgood77 wrote:Man if GS gets Paul George they will be tough. It would be hard to see us top 5 or 6 unless everyone was healthy all year and other teams had health issues.
The Clippers would probably fall out though.
But you'd probably have rankings something like this:
OKC
Minnesota
Denver
Dallas
GS
Memphis
New Orleans
Houston
Sacramento
We'd probably be somewhere in that bottom 3-5 group.
Then you have the Lakers who played well against us. Who knows what the Clippers do.
So is Paul doing this so he can be included in the S&T and thereby get his $30m paycheck
I don't know. I didn't look at their cap. Maybe. I was originally thinking so they could re-sign him after they signed George, but maybe that doesn't make sense because I think they are over the cap anyway, and if he has a huge cap hold, that would prevent him from signing.
Though you can't trade him for equal value just because of a cap hold. So they'd have to pick up the option and then trade him and the Clips would have to be willing to pay him $30 million, though maybe GS would give them a few picks....they will want to maximize what's left of Curry and Draymond's careers. George is a PERFECT player for them.