Chet does not get full supermax (5/250) or a player option.

[Devilanche]

They’re not gonna pay the tax this year, but ‘26-‘27 they’re screwed having to pay Chet $50m and Williams. They’ve maybe got a three season window before the repeater tax will bite too hard. They’ll have to trade off expensive assets at that point.

You're off a bit here.

Jalen and Chet will be making ~41-42 million in 2026-2027. Let's assume it is the higher number, 42 million.

SGA + Chet + JDub: 126 million
Caruso: 19.5 million
Wiggins: 9.2 million
Joe: 11.3 million
Jaylin: 7.7 million
Cason: 7.4 million
Topic: 5.4 million
Sorber: 4.9 million
Ayay: 2.9 million

That's 11 players under contract, 194.3 million

Hartenstein: 28.5 million
Dort: 18.2 million
Kenrich: 7.4

That's 3 players with team options for 54.1 million

The estimated tax line in 2026-2027 is 200 million, 1st apron 209 million.

I think they can duck the tax again in 2026-2027 if they both want to and expect to be well into the 2nd apron in 2027-2028 with SGA's super max.

Realistically, they can trade one of JDub/Chet for an absolute haul following 2026-2027 after having two additional bites at the apple in 2026 and 2027.

still better to keep the "big 3", let Kenrich walk, trade isaiah Joe and hope you can replace Hartenstein with drafted guys (Sorber or another one next year) and pray that you keep drafting decent role players. Probably gonna lose Caruso by then too if u want to keep Dort.

Trading Chet or JDub would only make sense If Presti fail to surround our big 3 and we look terrible outside of them. Eventually gonna happen but 2027 looks way too early if we aren't having some catastrophic injury issues.

Hard to predict 2027 without adding any draft picks from 2026 and assuming we don’t add any longer term salary via trade.

[Dadouv47]

You're off a bit here.

Jalen and Chet will be making ~41-42 million in 2026-2027. Let's assume it is the higher number, 42 million.

SGA + Chet + JDub: 126 million
Caruso: 19.5 million
Wiggins: 9.2 million
Joe: 11.3 million
Jaylin: 7.7 million
Cason: 7.4 million
Topic: 5.4 million
Sorber: 4.9 million
Ayay: 2.9 million

That's 11 players under contract, 194.3 million

Hartenstein: 28.5 million
Dort: 18.2 million
Kenrich: 7.4

That's 3 players with team options for 54.1 million

The estimated tax line in 2026-2027 is 200 million, 1st apron 209 million.

I think they can duck the tax again in 2026-2027 if they both want to and expect to be well into the 2nd apron in 2027-2028 with SGA's super max.

Realistically, they can trade one of JDub/Chet for an absolute haul following 2026-2027 after having two additional bites at the apple in 2026 and 2027.

still better to keep the "big 3", let Kenrich walk, trade isaiah Joe and hope you can replace Hartenstein with drafted guys (Sorber or another one next year) and pray that you keep drafting decent role players. Probably gonna lose Caruso by then too if u want to keep Dort.

Trading Chet or JDub would only make sense If Presti fail to surround our big 3 and we look terrible outside of them. Eventually gonna happen but 2027 looks way too early if we aren't having some catastrophic injury issues.

Hard to predict 2027 without adding any draft picks from 2026 and assuming we don’t add any longer term salary via trade.

and without knowing how much Poku wants to come back to OKC.

[In-N-Out 247]

I can't believe Chet gets 50M per while J-Will gets a half. This is not a good assets management considering how handicapped Minny is having Gobert with Max deal. I know Chet is more versatile. Anyway, if you consider Wemby playoff bound pretty soon, bringing back Chet is an obvious move.

I think you got your J-Will's mixed up lol.

[Bornstellar]

I feel like he is either going to far exceed the value or it will end up being a massive overpay, no in-between

[ReggiesKnicks]

I can't believe Chet gets 50M per while J-Will gets a half. This is not a good assets management considering how handicapped Minny is having Gobert with Max deal. I know Chet is more versatile. Anyway, if you consider Wemby playoff bound pretty soon, bringing back Chet is an obvious move.

I think you got your J-Will's mixed up lol.

Jaylin Williams signed for 7.7 million, not even 25 million.

Gobert is no longer on a Max Deal.

Weird post by Darren.

[Devilanche]

still better to keep the "big 3", let Kenrich walk, trade isaiah Joe and hope you can replace Hartenstein with drafted guys (Sorber or another one next year) and pray that you keep drafting decent role players. Probably gonna lose Caruso by then too if u want to keep Dort.

Trading Chet or JDub would only make sense If Presti fail to surround our big 3 and we look terrible outside of them. Eventually gonna happen but 2027 looks way too early if we aren't having some catastrophic injury issues.

Hard to predict 2027 without adding any draft picks from 2026 and assuming we don’t add any longer term salary via trade.

and without knowing how much Poku wants to come back to OKC.

Easy. You max him and trade everyone else .

[Laimbeer]

This is an overpay that could help hasten OKC's team being chipped away.

[tmorgan]

I feel like he is either going to far exceed the value or it will end up being a massive overpay, no in-between

And the “why” behind this statement is obvious: He’s an All-Star impact player that is way too fragile. When he plays, he’s a 25% of cap type impact player.

Now what you don’t want to say out loud is… Wemby is the same thing. Even higher impact, of course, but there’s no chance he doesn’t perform on the court at a 25-30% cap level. He’s either a bargain on a max deal or… well, you know.

[DirtyDez]

What an odd title lol. I wonder Chet and Duffy refused a lesser deal before agreeing on this one.