dropBHOmbs wrote:It seems like the nuggets need a more athletic, taller version of Harrington. I think Harrington is the one who should get the amnesty. I would like someone like Thaddeus Young, but he might be hard to get. Darrell Arthur could be had pretty cheap. So could Anthony Randolph.
The next question is do we bring Dre back? I love dre but he is getting up there in age.
We will be over the cap with Nene's 13 mil TPE, javle's hold/contract, the MLE, dre Fernandez and our 1st. This means we can't sign anyone outright unless It's mle, Javale, dre or fern. If we amnesty big al, trade Moz and brewer, renounce rights to dre, fern and nene tpe we will have about 35m in salary before javale. If Bird is convicted of child porn (i hope he is innocent) we would only have about 31m committed. Say javale signs a deal starting at 9.5m, that would leave close to max cap space.
Honestly though I see them staying over the cap like last year. 1. Sign McGee. 2. Sign backup PG or Pf/C to MLE (Aaron Brooks, Augustin, Arthur, Randolph etc.) 3. ???
Let's get something clear, there is no way in hell the Nuggets are going to amnesty Harrington, you do not amnesty guys who put up 14 and 6 on good contracts. If he was going to be amnestied it would have been last year.
They are also not going to salary dump Brewer and Mozgov, Brewer has played pretty damn well and Mozgov has done enough in this series for them to look at his potential and decide to either keep him or trade him as part of a bigger package.
There is nobody really worth a max deal this summer, and if there were there is no way the Nuggets would sign them anyways. They want top 10 players at each position, can't do that when you have someone eating up somewhere around 30% of the cap.
This team has overproduced and beat expectations, while being on a low payroll, and also having the 2nd youngest starting lineup in the league. They also have 4 young bigs that have shown the ability to play roles on a good team, they have no need for another big. do not buy the hype that the Nuggets have to have a superstar, as the front office is not buying it, and you will only be disappointed.
If I was pulling the strings I would leave the team basically as is, resigning McGee, bringing in another backup PG, and a SG who can shoot the 3 ball from the 2. Whether that means trading Chandler, amnestying or voiding Andersen's contract, using the picks, or trading one of the young bigs is up for debate, but there is not a ton of changing they should do.
