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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#281 » by fatlever » Mon Jul 7, 2025 8:30 pm

heat starting 5
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not the deepest team, but that 5 next year is gonna be sneaky good. no reason they cant win 40-50 games.
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#282 » by fatlever » Mon Jul 7, 2025 9:22 pm

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good for micic.
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#283 » by luciano-davidwesley » Mon Jul 7, 2025 11:29 pm

Crazy his options for $8 million got picked up with teams knowing he was going back to Euroleague.

Imagine if he barely gave up anything lol.
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#284 » by Diop » Tue Jul 8, 2025 3:14 am

luciano-davidwesley wrote:Crazy his options for $8 million got picked up with teams knowing he was going back to Euroleague.

Imagine if he barely gave up anything lol.

im sure there was a sneaky, wink wink agreement in place.
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#285 » by JMAC3 » Tue Jul 8, 2025 12:22 pm

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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#286 » by BlackOutBuzz » Tue Jul 8, 2025 10:46 pm

luciano-davidwesley wrote:Crazy his options for $8 million got picked up with teams knowing he was going back to Euroleague.

Imagine if he barely gave up anything lol.
Phoenix had to do it to make the Mark Williams trade work.

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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#287 » by MasterIchiro » Tue Jul 8, 2025 11:19 pm

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Make sense.

Pat Connaughton makes 9.4 million, Micic cost 2 million and this trade (along with the Dame waive and stretch) opened cap the Bucks needed to sign Myles Turner to appease Giannis one more season.

So for 7.4 million Hornets bought 2 distant 2nd round contracts, and made use of the leftovers from the Mark Williams trade.

The Connaughton trade is finalized so we are short one more roster spot because we have to wait 60 days from settlement before aggregating him with another roster player, creating 1 open roster spot. The other thing we can do to create a roster spot is buy out Connaughton, which seems to be where we're heading with this roster crunch.
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#288 » by yosemiteben » Wed Jul 9, 2025 12:01 am

The Wiz already flipped Olynyk for young guys. They're totally down to lose and are just mining for young talent.

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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#289 » by Diop » Wed Jul 9, 2025 12:37 am

yosemiteben wrote:The Wiz already flipped Olynyk for young guys. They're totally down to lose and are just mining for young talent.

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i posted about this in the offseason thread, i would hope we checked whether they had interest in Nick Smith Jr.
Kelly would be handy at the 4/5 for depth and something different.
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#290 » by Diop » Wed Jul 9, 2025 12:54 am

where does everyone think Lauri Markkanen ends up? he can't stay Utah now surely.
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#291 » by luciano-davidwesley » Wed Jul 9, 2025 8:52 am

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luciano-davidwesley wrote:Crazy his options for $8 million got picked up with teams knowing he was going back to Euroleague.

Imagine if he barely gave up anything lol.
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I'm aware why it happened but just surprised there wasn't other semi useful/non dead matching salary we could have insisted on instead.
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#292 » by HornetJail » Wed Jul 9, 2025 3:10 pm

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BlackOutBuzz wrote:
luciano-davidwesley wrote:Crazy his options for $8 million got picked up with teams knowing he was going back to Euroleague.

Imagine if he barely gave up anything lol.
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I'm aware why it happened but just surprised there wasn't other semi useful/non dead matching salary we could have insisted on instead.

the reason they chose Micic is because he was going back to Europe and was going to take a sizeable buyout. That made him a pretty unique dust chip.

The Bucks wound up only paying him $2M. For anyone not willing to take an enormous buyout with a Europe offer on the table (Cody Martin for example), the Suns would've had to guarantee them much more to match Mark's salary.
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#293 » by LofJ » Wed Jul 9, 2025 4:10 pm

Diop wrote:where does everyone think Lauri Markkanen ends up? he can't stay Utah now surely.


The teams that can trade for his salary without decimating their roster are pretty limited. Looking over the committed salaries and rosters of different teams really only the Bulls, Pelicans, Raptors, and us stand out.
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#294 » by fatlever » Wed Jul 9, 2025 8:11 pm

our group this year

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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#295 » by Chapelchilla » Thu Jul 10, 2025 2:09 am

fatlever wrote:our group this year

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Well, it's not the worst draw.....
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#296 » by yosemiteben » Thu Jul 10, 2025 2:33 am

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That is a **** ton of money
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#297 » by Diop » Thu Jul 10, 2025 2:33 am

LofJ wrote:
Diop wrote:where does everyone think Lauri Markkanen ends up? he can't stay Utah now surely.


The teams that can trade for his salary without decimating their roster are pretty limited. Looking over the committed salaries and rosters of different teams really only the Bulls, Pelicans, Raptors, and us stand out.

he's an interesting fit with Raptors and Pelicans. Raptors shouldn't have wasted that spot on Ingram
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#298 » by Diop » Thu Jul 10, 2025 2:34 am

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That is a **** ton of money

seriously, shorten the season, NBA is clearly making a disgusting amount of money and can afford to take the $ loss of less broadcasts and games.
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Re: Around the NBA 13 

Post#299 » by Heelsfan119 » Thu Jul 10, 2025 3:32 am

Diop wrote:
LofJ wrote:
Diop wrote:where does everyone think Lauri Markkanen ends up? he can't stay Utah now surely.


The teams that can trade for his salary without decimating their roster are pretty limited. Looking over the committed salaries and rosters of different teams really only the Bulls, Pelicans, Raptors, and us stand out.

he's an interesting fit with Raptors and Pelicans. Raptors shouldn't have wasted that spot on Ingram


Yeah and he’s not going back to the Bulls in my opinion. I’d love to see him here but the price is probably too steep.
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Post#300 » by Bassman » Thu Jul 10, 2025 3:49 am

Heelsfan119 wrote:
Diop wrote:
LofJ wrote:
The teams that can trade for his salary without decimating their roster are pretty limited. Looking over the committed salaries and rosters of different teams really only the Bulls, Pelicans, Raptors, and us stand out.

he's an interesting fit with Raptors and Pelicans. Raptors shouldn't have wasted that spot on Ingram


Yeah and he’s not going back to the Bulls in my opinion. I’d love to see him here but the price is probably too steep.


Did I miss something? Why would Utah not keep Lauri? I understand his salary is steep and long, but relative to their other moves it is still manageable within their cap range. Hornets would never make such a high $ risky deal unless they were ready to move off both Melo and Miles.
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