[NBA] 2024 Free Agency mega-thread
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Didn’t watch any of the Hawks last year but apparently he sucks now. 3pt shooter who shot under 32%. Hawks fans say that he’s the worst defender on a team that has Trae Young.
Solid buy low candidate if he can bounce back to his rookie year
Holy mother. If you look at the luxury tax that this contract will generate over the first two years (for which, right now, the Suns seem to have little option of getting under the tax level), Royce O'Neal is going to cost a total of $139M - just over the first two years. I mean, the player is only getting about $20M of that, but the Suns are effectively going to be paying $120M to the league over two years for the privilege of having ROYCE O'NEAL.
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Was going to say the Raptors would have to waive him or a buyout.
HndsmCelt
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I could see this going either way. But it wouldn't be shocked to see LeBron take a haircut in order to keep his kid on a winning team.
SLAB
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I’m not going to freak until nothing happens right as legal tampering opens up. But if “Run it back. Again!” starts materializing I will scream.
SacTownKid
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Haha, this time Monte is going to actually wait a minute. There's only a few teams with cap space so it might not take long.
iowamcnabb
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SacTownKid
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The Clippers are supposedly OK with 3 years instead of 4. This is a game of who blinks first. Look at the Clipps, now they HAVE to give him what he wants, lol.
SacTownKid
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Goodness, you look at the Clippers cap sheet and Tucker kind of F'd them picking up his option like that haha. They could have had decent space if Harden and PG13 are done. It doesn't look like they have any real options. They have to give Harden and PG13 what they want. Unless they just kind of want to tank out and rebuild, maybe get what they can for Kawhi.
iowamcnabb
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I have to assume he is going back. Don’t think he would do his buddy Klaw dirty.
I don't know why the tweet excludes the possibility of a sign-and-trade, which can certainly happen
SacTownKid
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The obvious team to watch one would think is Philly, but Maxey, Embiid, and PG13 against the C's and Knicks? That big 3 might be better now but that's going to be tough filling out the rest of that team on the quick since they'd have to shed almost every other piece on their team to make it work I think.
iowamcnabb
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Does it have to do with sign and trade restrictions for apron teams?
SacTownKid
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Yeah, same for the Kings I think. Great, now hopefully old Klay gets a banging deal from the Dubs and we don't have to worry about them making any climbs on paper this summer.
Shams says nope.
Three teams? Who is the third idiot, us?
There don't appear to be any rules regarding teams over the apron sending players in a sign-and-trade. Teams who acquire a player in a sign-and-trade are hard-capped at the first apron. The relevant language from the CBA is as follows:
Section 8(e)(1) is the section dealing with sign-and-trades; it does not include any restrictions based on the apron. (Furthermore, the Clippers do have a path to not go over the first apron anyway by letting Harden walk, perhaps that's unlikely but in principle it could happen.)
Now, the Warriors specifically would have a difficult time doing a sign-and-trade for George, because once they did they would be hardcapped and unable to go over the first apron, and they're right at the first apron as it is. The Kings actually have some breathing room, so I don't see why they couldn't find a way, except for the fact that the Clippers would probably (probably?) rather let George walk than take back a Huerter/Barnes package.
Double-K
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We simply don't have the cap space unless we trade away and cash out on all our trade chips just to sign him, right?
SacTownKid
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I doubt it. If the Warriors wouldn't even sign him for MLE money that would be interesting. That would really show they think he's done for, haha. I personally don't think he is totally done, but 20-25+ million a year is an overpay unless he's your final piece. Probably the Sixers. The Sixers have space to pull that off and add more. Does that really convince Embiid to not bail though? The Magic still should be shooting for younger players but they've been linked.
I don't think he will be a lot of $.
He's not the player he used to be.
For the record I do not want 2024 Klay on this team.
Sixers are going after PG13.
Dallas, Denver and who?
Internet seems to think Fakers.
Double-K
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