Kings & Rudy Gay reach agreement on 3 year contract extension!
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I'm going to say something that will probably create some noise. Based on this seasons games I don't think that there's a serious gap (if at all) between Rudy's and Melo's game at least in offense. Rudy is probably a better defender and better rebounder. Rudy also seems to be connected to the Kings offense while the Knicks offense is connected to Melo.
Looking at the difference in their contracts, I'll take Rudy any day of the week. Yeah, I think this was a very nice deal.
Looking at the difference in their contracts, I'll take Rudy any day of the week. Yeah, I think this was a very nice deal.
Well, if it was up to the Magoof brothers he would have probably been wearing the black and purple for the Seattle Kings...
Thank you Mayor Johnson for not leaving it up to them!
As per the Gay news - I see this as a true win-win situation.
The financials make a lot of sense for an organization like the Kings (who usually have to over pay for players like Rudy to lure them to come/stay at Sactown), while Rudy finds a long(er) term home with a team that seems to have a great upside, with DMC, DC and now Gay as a good committed core to work with.
This is indeed great work from PDA, and kudos to Ranadivé who is leading this mentality shift to building a winning organization. This is no easy feat!
Thank you Mayor Johnson for not leaving it up to them!
As per the Gay news - I see this as a true win-win situation.
The financials make a lot of sense for an organization like the Kings (who usually have to over pay for players like Rudy to lure them to come/stay at Sactown), while Rudy finds a long(er) term home with a team that seems to have a great upside, with DMC, DC and now Gay as a good committed core to work with.
This is indeed great work from PDA, and kudos to Ranadivé who is leading this mentality shift to building a winning organization. This is no easy feat!
It makes very good financial sense. Per C. Dave, it allows the Kings to sign a max player for next year and have plenty left over for a bench, given the safe assumption D-Will will no longer be with the Kings. To get their money's worth on a player close to a max contract the Kings really need to get in the playoffs. They will then get a quality player for their money.
It does? I have their cap room at $10.3 mil next year (Cousins, Gay, Landry, Thompson, Collison, McLemore, Stauskas, Sessions, McCallum, & Moreland = $56.2 mil --> $66.5 mil salary cap - $56.2 mil payroll = $10.3 mil in cap space).
I guess if you don't want to pick up McLemore's team option and waive McCallum & Moreland, you would have $15.3 mil in cap space, but I don't see them doing that. Do you?
I guess if you don't want to pick up McLemore's team option and waive McCallum & Moreland, you would have $15.3 mil in cap space, but I don't see them doing that. Do you?
Yeah, it's just that he doesn't seem to actually understand the details of the salary cap. He began the discussion by saying not to look at the salary cap but the luxury tax threshold because Vivek & co were willing to go to the luxury tax level. In his mind that meant the Kings had $20 million or so to play with.
Obviously you can't exceed the salary cap to sign free agents, only to resign your own so the rest of the discussion was essentially moot.
Now if the Kings TRADE for a player (with Bird rights) at the deadline who will is set to become a free agent in the offseason then obviously they can go over the cap to resign that player and then use the midlevel exception as well. And unless the biannual exception was used to sign Sessions (I don't remember) then that could be used to resign Casspi to a higher salary too.
Obviously you can't exceed the salary cap to sign free agents, only to resign your own so the rest of the discussion was essentially moot.
Now if the Kings TRADE for a player (with Bird rights) at the deadline who will is set to become a free agent in the offseason then obviously they can go over the cap to resign that player and then use the midlevel exception as well. And unless the biannual exception was used to sign Sessions (I don't remember) then that could be used to resign Casspi to a higher salary too.
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Eric Pincus @EricPincus 3h3 hours ago
Rudy Gay's extension starts next season at $12,403,101, then $13,333,333 and player option 17/18 for $14,263,566 @BBallInsiders
Rudy Gay's extension starts next season at $12,403,101, then $13,333,333 and player option 17/18 for $14,263,566 @BBallInsiders
Noticed this before but didn't think much of it until a 538 article today reminded me. I think scrappy roleplayers may actually be less invisible to the analytically inclined. Depending on what you're doing for your analytics of course....
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/...ason-collins-lgbt-and-advanced-stats-pioneer/
(Farther away from the line (above) means analytics values the player much more than regular stats used by PER.)
The more interesting point being that if anybody was afraid of the stats geek ignoring roleplayers in favor of stat stuffers, that doesn't look to be an issue. This front office certainly seems to be more "Moneyball" in terms of finding inefficiencies in the system. Whether there is a battle between them and Nellie-ball disciples I think remains to be seen.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/...ason-collins-lgbt-and-advanced-stats-pioneer/
(Farther away from the line (above) means analytics values the player much more than regular stats used by PER.)
The more interesting point being that if anybody was afraid of the stats geek ignoring roleplayers in favor of stat stuffers, that doesn't look to be an issue. This front office certainly seems to be more "Moneyball" in terms of finding inefficiencies in the system. Whether there is a battle between them and Nellie-ball disciples I think remains to be seen.