Arsenal wrote:the_process wrote:Arsenal wrote:
Where are you getting that? I have this:
Under Contract
Embiid 55.2
George 51.6
Maxey 37.9
Oubre 8.3
Drummond 5.0
McCain 4.2
Council 2.2
Edwards 2.0
Bona 1.9
TOTAL 9 Players Under Contact: 168.3
Draft Picks To Sign
Edgecombe 11.1
Broome 1.2
TOTAL 2 Draft Picks To Sign: 12.3
Free Agents to Sign
Grimes 16.0
TaxMLE 5.8 (Yabu? Boucher? LaRavia?)
Vet Min 2.0 (Lowry?)
TOTAL 3 Free Agents to Sign: 23.8
TOTAL for 14 Players: 204.4p
$204.4m is $3.4m under the 2nd Apron of $207.8m. We can bump up Grimes to $19m in year 1 and remain under the 2nd Apron while still using the full TaxMLE on Yabu or someone else, without having to dump Oubre or Drummond.
https://www.spotrac.com/nba/philadelphia-76ers/cap/_/year/2025
Gordon is supposedly coming back at the minimum where he gets a raise but the Sixers get a smaller cap hit. That's another 2.1M.
They would be at 206.5M hard capped at 207.8. Doesn't leave much room for injury replacements, but they would have a full 15. Just seems to me they dump Oubre for a 2nd and give themselves a wide berth and only carry 14 which is Daryl's MO.
But maybe Gordon just decides to go elsewhere and then it's not a concern.
I'm very confident we're not going with 15 players, nor are we dumping Oubre. Gordon coming back is just speculation at this point but if he is, I assume Lowry is not so we still end up at the same salary/tax for 14 players.
You still have to wonder what Joshy has to say about the payroll when they are a .500 team over the 1st apron at the trade deadline. But I suppose we just cross that bridge when we come to it.
