bobcats3wallace wrote:His contract is atrocious, but you have to look at it in a different light than just 19 million. If there is a trade of say Maggette and Thomas for Gay. Something a long those lines. Then this coming year is a wash in terms of salary. Then you have two years in which Gay and Thomas' deals would both have left. If you take what we would had already been paying Thomas regardless then it's the equivalent of paying about 9 million more for Gay in 2013/14 and about 10 million more for Gay in 2014/15.
In 2013/2014 it would leave us with about 28 million in committed salary (including this years picks and that years picks) That is still plenty of cap room to make moves. We would have Henderson that we would have to make a decision on and Mullens too, but we would have plenty of money to play with and with the addition of Gay we would have a young prolific scorer already in place.
Sure you could just amnesty Thomas, but MJ would still have to foot the bill. I doubt anyone is going to pick up a significant portion of his contract if we amnestied him. All I'm saying is paying an extra 9 million and 10 million for Gay is well worth it, especially when it impacts our future cap space very little. That's almost 30 million dollars in cap space we would still have while already potentially having Kemba, Biz, Gay, and Davis (we hope) in place. It's not a bad deal. And Gay is young enough that he can still grow with our young guys and be with this team when they are ready to compete. I mean if Kemba can continue to learn how to be a real PG, you would have to really like the starting lineup of Kemba, Hendo, Gay, Davis, Biz. That has all kinds of potential with a potential star in Davis, his borderline all star side kick in Gay, good defensive players in Biz/Hendo, and that 3rd tier scorer in Kemba. Add some bench players to that and it has the makings of what could be a special team.
You make some good points...i'd rather take Gasol's contract if we are going to pay that kind of money. We don't have anything LA wants so it's pointless...but I'm not sure what else Rudy does other than score ...when I look at his contract two words come to mind....Joe, Johnson
