Klomp wrote:MN7725 wrote:That is BS, come on
There was $1 Billion dollars available in 2016 FA
Only about $300 mil available in 2017 (Only about $200 mil available league wide in 2018 FA)
What you're talking about is dropped the $ available at most $40-50 million, the salary cap coming in $2 mil less than expected
the rest of the drop was spent and on the books already
This was known last Oct, not hindsight
I'm not just talking about this year. Dieng's higher salary the next year or two doesn't matter as much now because Wiggins and Towns aren't to their extensions.
Previous estimates were about $10 million higher than the cap ended up being this year. No doubt the estimates had the cap continuing to jump.
I thought it was going to be $102 mil in '17-18, up from $90 in '16-17, and $109 mil in '18-'19
Regardless, there was going to be significantly less $$ available in 2017 because of what was spent in 2016. That was known.
Teams like Por, Was, Cha, Det etc were going to be capped out no matter what the salary cap # came in at
At the time of extension, I looked at what was available in 2017 and figured only 10 teams would have $$ to even offer Dieng that starting year salary in 2017 FA and only Dallas was the team that would have made any sense to do so
Setting all that aside, since Dieng getting 4 yr/$64 mil or getting less $, even significantly less in an extension doesn't really matter
Good for Gorgui, good for any player to get as much $ as they can
2017 was the year to make moves in FA because of Wig/KAT's coming extensions, Wolves will be capped out for the forseeable future. This was obvious
Dieng had a tiny cap hold due to his low draft position
What sense did it make to give that up?
Giving up $8.5 mil difference in Dieng's cap hold/extension in
THE offseason that the team could make FA moves is indefensible imo and the cap going up or down didn't change that