twslam07
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The net result of your trade (other than adding Turner, Crabbe, Aminu, Leonard and Harkless - none of whom I want at all) is moving up from #10 to #7 and getting #20.
Thanks for correcting your phrasing! It sounded like you were trying to misrepresent the deal by acting like we were just getting a mid to late 1st rounder.
Well, it's a stretch to say we'd "have" Bogdanovic if there's only $4.1 million in caproom left to sign him with. But even if that's the case, the issue would be that it makes it harder to complete any trades when you're at the salary cap limit. A mismatched roster with one rookie point guard with no backup and four shooting guards is one that needs flexibility to trade pieces and this would damage that. It also means having to cut a player next season (likely meaning dead cap for years) just to be able to sign the rookie drafted in 2018. Rebuilding teams should use caproom to absorb bad contracts in exchange for assets but blowing it all in one fell swoop for #15 and #20 in a draft that isn't particularly deep and hamstringing the team for three years seems excessive to say the least.
It's a matter of preference I suppose. We might not be getting enough back. I tend to swing a little more towards the opposing team to not be so "homerish" as many fans appear to be when making trade proposals. But the fact stands that limited cap space would not affect us all that much at this stage in the rebuild. Teams are over the cap all of the time in the NBA and they manage to pull off deal after deal after deal. This is getting blown out of proportion in my opinion.
Again, it's to my understanding that the roster has been extended to 17 with two of them having to remain in the D league. #5, #7, #20, #34, I. Cousins, Temple, Hield, Bogdanovic, Richardson, Crabbe, Turner, Harkless, Aminu, Labissiere, Cauley-Stein, Papagiannis, & Leonard. That's 17 right there.
I wouldn't say this draft "isn't particularly deep." I think there is solid talent throughout this draft, but this can be said by either side in an attempt to make their argument look stronger.
To me this makes it much worse. At least Portland has a core to build around. The Kings would be using up all of their caproom, making it harder to make deals going forward, and locking themselves into a roster and generally getting into a tough position without even having a clear direction going forward.
It would be more difficult, but let's not pretend like it's that much more difficult. Again, teams make deals all the time while being over the cap.
The odds are that we are going to be at the bottom for a few more years and that we won't be in a position to lure or sign anyone of significance. What is the point of having cap space if we're not going to be able to sign anyone who will help our core when it comes time to actually be competitive?
The fear or having little to no cap space for the next few years is bizarre. You cite a few reasons why you're so worried about not having cap flexiblity....
- Locking them into a roster - false, cap flexibility will return in 3 years when our young guys start to develop and become actual NBA players. We can decide then who will we be resigning are there any FAs that make sense to go after (and that would hopefully be interested in our team because the core guys are starting to look promising). And again, we can always trade. So not only are we not "locked into a roster" in the short term we're not "locked into a roster" in the long term
- Getting into a tough position - I don't even really know what you mean by this as it's very vague, but I don't see anything tough about adding more youth to the roster and sitting on them for a couple of years while they develop.
- Not having a clear direction going forward - why is this an issue? Why do we need to know what our direction is at the beginning of a rebuild? What we should be doing is developing our players to the best of our abilities and see where the cream rises to the crop. From there, you can start to see a core forming, who the team should be built around, etc. This is a nonissue at this point in time