facts:
1) We almost guaranteed to re-signing Lowry (unless he chooses to leave), on a 5-year supermax timed exactly for his decline and will be locked into 75M/annually for our backcourt for the next 4 years min.
2) We cannot afford to resign our players this offseason. pick your poison. Having Ibaka and Tucker now just makes it harder to pick who to keep and we lose a couple draft picks...
Assumming we keep ppat + lowry.....Cojo's def gone, along with 1 of either ibaka or JV and finally 1 of either carroll or tucker+bruno.....thats even if MLSE is VERY generous with the tax
more importantly, Norm and Bebe also come off their bargain-bin contracts NEXT summer, and multiple teams will throw them mozgov/biyombo money, and we're gonna lose them 100% if we keep the status quo
...Come 2018 season, what the hell do we have left?
3)
Lebrons only 32, Love 28, Kyrie, 24
Lowry 31, Derozan 27, Ibaka 27..(37?)
Cleveland will not be dethroned as the de-facto East Champs for the forseeable "peak" of this core (next 4 years lets say)
Next up would be the celtics who are just waiting for the right deal to strike.... Boston has a solid core already and can easily flip their propects/picks to get a true superstar when they feel like it to really take them over the top...
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with the way we've played lately, we would have it rough getting past WAS + BOS, esp with the lower seed ....and ps. anything past first round ensure D. CASEY's tenure as coach here
...is that what really we should be striving for?
