WeekapaugGroove wrote:Yup. Specifically this coming off-season the middle class is going to be completely **** in FA. With a good chance we won't have full arenas owners will be super cost conscious and id bet a bunch of over the cap teams won't use the MLE.AtheJ415 wrote:WeekapaugGroove wrote:As they say 'it only takes one team' but I just don't think there will be a strong market for him. I think it's going to be a brutal market in general for FAs especially for role players. I'd say the MLE is his absolute best case scenario.
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The highest value guys are still max players, rookie scale guys, and vet minimum guys. Anybody who falls outside of those I think will see a shrunk market. I think Oubre is going to be frustrated with us again when hi deal comes up , for instance, because it will be similar to Bledsoe's deal where we give him a good offer and ask him to get a better one in the market ad we'll match or beat it, and he won't be able to do it and will blame us for that.
Now if things are normal in the summer of 21 a guy like Dario could get the MLE.
I don't know what oubre would get in a market like this winter, haven't thought about it since he's under contract. What he gets in 21 will depend how he plays next year. He would get more than dairo though since long wings are much more valued than non athletic PFs, that and he's just a better player.
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I don't know that most owners will be that much more cash strapped because of the pandemic..obviously it hurts a guy like Sarver who barely had enough to buy the team, even with debt and other owners, but most of the other guys are pretty rich...and this probably didn't hurt them much. Unless the cap shrinks so much it puts people in the tax, but I don't see them letting that happen.
I bet they are KILLING it on tv money right now though. ESPN is showing games all day...now I don't know if the ESPN deals are a set amount already but if so they were fine anyway. Non playoff owners just lost 2 weeks or so of home games (being that the season got delayed a month before season's end and roughly half the games would have been on the road). Teams will miss playoff revenue, but only a handful advance past more than two rounds, so would have more then 4-6 playoff home games.
Basically I don't think it will impact many teams using their MLE if they were planning on using it...we are probably the most likely team that would make such a decision (and of course we are all expecting them to use it if they work over the cap).
I have no idea what Oubre's value would be. $15 felt like more than I wanted to pay, but based on #s fans were throwing out there, I was kind of relieved it was 2 years at that amount. But any more than that seems excessive, especially for a lot of years. It seems I've heard high #s thrown around...it was interesting to see RAPTOR had his at about $11 million a year. As big of a Bridges fan, I was still pretty shocked his was about double that amount already.