Ghost of Kleine wrote:lilfishi22 wrote:Ghost of Kleine wrote:
Exactly this! The thing with Kuminga is he's a borderline poster child for unrealized potential. He's also expecting to get paid at least 25 million a year. Sure, he's not Patrick Williams or anything that bad, and he's still got immensely potential.
But if he never breaks through, then with that contract, he'll be viewed in a similar light as Jerami Grant or a slightly better value P Williams perhaps. It really does depend upon what ye signs for. I'm not at all completely opposed to the idea of acquiring him, but again, being fiscally responsible is paramount for our future.
Looking at the multi-year salaries on our books, Grayson and Royce makes a combined $27m next season, $29m the next and $31m in 2027. I think a deal for Kuminga at most will be a 4 year deal so it'll expire a year after in 2028. If we can get him for less than what those 2 make the next few years, I think it's a worthy gamble although one guy at almost $30m is probably harder to move than 1 guy at $11.6m for example.
I feel like we already have an expensive young, unproven guy on a big contract (Green), I'm not super keen to bring another onboard, especially when we already have Mark Williams' extension to look at next offseason as well. I'm not saying these guys are mediocre because they're not but for the money they're on or might be getting, we may have 3 of them on the roster by 2027.
Agreed!
The cumulative increases attached to any acquisitions, scale increases and extensions (Williams) are fairly concerning to me because now that we've chosen to anchor our books to almost 20 million+ in dead cap for the next half decade, this might be a very short duration for us to he below the LT apron or even possibly back over the 2nd apron rather quickly again.
And that'd mean (because we aren't seriously competing) that we stretched Beal and tied ourselves to that 20 million for essentially nothing competitively noteworthy.
If we're courting someone who wants $25-30m, I'd try and swoop in to grab Giddey from Chicago
“The sides, sources say, remain far apart, with the Australian point guard long known to be seeking a deal that pays in the $30 million range annually,” Fischer wrote. “This time, Giddey’s representation has not wavered in its pursuit of a $30 million annual salary, sources say, while the Bulls’ offers have been much closer to $20 million.”
Last season with the Bulls, he shot a career high 37.8% from the three on 4 attempts a game, averaged a career high 7.2 apg (career high 2.5 A:TO), a career high 8.1RPG, got to the line a career high 3.2 times a game and for the last 3 seasons has played at least 70 games. Also career high in efficiency, career high in VORP, career high in OBPM and DBPM, and for the first time in his career, he played the vast majority of his minutes at the PG position rather than on the wings or PF. And he's 4 days younger than Kuminga. If I'm taking another expensive gamble, I'd much rather throw my chips in with Giddey than Kuminga
