Resistance wrote:patman66 wrote:Resistance wrote:
I don't know if the trade can be reconfigured once the Knicks decide not to participate.
Kemba is 30 and Powell is 29 with both having health concerns. Randle is no prize, but the Knicks can reach the end of his contract quicker than they can with the contracts of Walker and Powell. Bullock can be closed out for just $1 million if the Knicks decide to go that way. Frank has somewhat positive value.
........................2020-21...........2021-22..........2022-23....
Kemba Walker.....$34,379,100......$36,016,200....$37,653,300 - PO
Dwight Powell.....$10,185,185......$11,000,000....$11,814,815
........................2020-21...........2021-22..........2022-23......
Julius Randle.....$18,900,000.....$19,800,000........................
..........................................$4,000,000 - Partial Guarantee
Reggie Bullock....$4,200,000............................................
......................$1,000,000 - Partial Guarantee....................
Frank Ntilikina....$6,176,578............................................
The Knicks aren't giving away their cap space for free. It is even worse than that because the Knicks are actually paying with #8 so other teams can use their cap space.
I see Kemba helping the Knicks next year in FA. Randle, Bullock and DSJ is paying one year of Kemba's deal. Kemba makes NY more more attractive than Killian Hayes?
The celts could take Powell's deal and send wright to the Kings. The framework is then
Kemba for Bullock (not a thibs type of player)+ Randle, DSJ + 8 Take frank out of the deal and put in DSJ- he has no value compared to his 5 mill deal. I don't see this as Knicks eating cap space but get Kemba for three years at 22 mill for the 8th pick
How many games are you projecting a rotation similar to this to win in the 2020-21 season?
Robinson, Powell
Ignas Brazdeikis, Wooten, #27
Barrett, Knox, Dotson,
Ellington, Pinson
K Walker, DSJ
I have their ceiling as 25 games if there is a full 82 game season.
Their floor? Somewhere under 20 wins.
For summer 2021, something like this for cap space with a $115 million salary cap and a high pick since the team didn't do that well in the 2020-21 season.
Kemba Walker...........$36,016,200
Dwight Powell...........$11,000,000
RJ Barrett..................$8,623,920
Mitchell Robinson.........$1,802,057
Damyean Dotson..........$4,000,000
Ignas Brazdeikis...........$1,782,621
2020 #27...................$2,075,880
2021 NY First..............$7,000,000
2021 Dallas First..........$2,400,000
Min Salary.....................$946,542
Min Salary.....................$946,542
Min Salary.....................$946,542
Joakim Noah................$6,431,666
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...............................$83,971,970
Roughly cap space for one Max contract and then they will have the Room Exception.
i have no idea why a Max coontract level player would want to sign with a team that had 25 wins or less in the 2020-21 season and still owed $37,653,300 to Kemba for the 2022-23 season and $11,814,815 to Powell for the 2022-23 season.
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I understand that you are unlikely to concede that the proposal in the OP is unfavorable for the Knicks, so my posts are to provide information to the readers who are still undecided and let them judge for themselves.
Why would I be reluctant to concede if it was a good deal or not? You think my feelings get hurt, if everyone does not think my posts are wonderful. I thought Kemba would be a great fit, Knick fans don't. Why would I be reluctant to concede that? That is just one out of 100,000 things that I have been wrong about in the last 67 years. I think you project some.