Avalanche wrote:Surely if we had a Griffin or Hayward ready to sign on the dotted line unloading Faried or Chandler (or someone else) wouldn't be too hard in the offseason?
Can I just give an 'amen' to that? I've been trying to make that point to no avail.
Did the Warriors have max room when they met with Durant? No.
Durant, LeBron, Aldridge, Carmelo, Wade -- they've all met (and several signed) with teams that didn't have space for the contracts that they gave them at the time of their meeting.
I don't know why so many get so hung up on this. You have to have a path to the max, sure, but you can trade a contract such as Tyson Chandler's -- easily. Even if in the worst case scenario we took on someone who put us over the max and they got injured or declined rapidly, we're loaded with a bunch of late firsts to pay a team to take a year of a guy if we had to dump someone.
Paul Pierce appreciation society.