Do you give them a call if you're the FO?

[campaignist]

I mean, why not? I could see PG going for it. At the least, it raises the team’s profile with free agents.

My only concern would be the money, and George thinking it’s “his team.” He’d have the same role as he does with OKC, except the star will actually pass to him.

If it was me, I’d sell him on having the role Andre Igoudala does on the Warriors. Or Durant I guess. Plus we have great fishing here

 

[Miggs]

Me asking a drop dead gorgeous 10/10 babe is like asking LBJ to take the veterans to come here minimum lol

So you have nothing to offer?

 

[Rubashov]

So you have nothing to offer?

Well yeah he's got the minimum...

 

[Thee Idiotic Minivan K]

Well yeah he's got the minimum...

Bingo


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[Saint Cy of JFC]

It has more to do with avoiding the mentality of "she ain't going out with me so I ain't even gonna ask." If you walk into something thinking someone out of your league won't give you the time of day because they're out of your league, you'll be right 10 times out of 10.

I mean, this isnt high school. I'm sure DL has already asked these questions.

 

[infection]

I mean, this isnt high school. I'm sure DL has already asked these questions.

High school is very definitely a microcosm of life. What people need to realize is that even at the highest levels, of anything, it’s all the same.

 

[JGolds]

I could see pg signing a one year deal with Utah with a player option. I think it makes sense. Pg value isn’t as high as it could be. And there arnt a lot of destination options tbh....


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[LoPo]

The problem is that some of the guys we have to waive or decline their option must be decided on before we can legally talk to free agent representation.

Thabo, Neto, and Exum must be decided on first. Thats a massive risk...



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[NUMBERICA]

So they lose Chris Paul then. They cant offer both the max sir

They can.

?

 

[Stoked]

We would be sick with Lebron.

But we'd have to dump a ton of dudes. Who? Sef, Udoh, JJJ, Burks...is that even enough?

Hell naw. For Lebron you go into Luxury. Let Burks go and bring home a chip. Gobert/Favors/Lebron/Mitchell/Rubio

Udoh/Crowder/Exum/Sefolosha/Jerebko/Ingles is your bench

 

[Shad]

They can.

?

The salary cap for next year is 108 mill. The Rockets have 78 mill tied up ALREADY WITHOUT PAYING Chris Paul, Ariza, Black, Luc, and Green. If Clint (and he will) decline his player option. Their cap goes to 75 mill. A max contract is 33+ mill a year. How can they offer CP3 + Clint the max without 4 spots to fill out the bench?

 

[NUMBERICA]

The salary cap for next year is 108 mill. The Rockets have 78 mill tied up ALREADY WITHOUT PAYING Chris Paul, Ariza, Black, Luc, and Green. If Clint (and he will) decline his player option. Their cap goes to 75 mill. A max contract is 33+ mill a year. How can they offer CP3 + Clint the max without 4 spots to fill out the bench?

-Larry Bird Exception
-Mid-Level Exception (although likely the taxpayer iteration of it)
-Minimum Salary Exception
-possibly the Bi-Annual Exception

There isn't a hard cap in the NBA. The cap is a soft cap. After the cap threshold is reached, you have to use exceptions to get above it, which are listed above. In the case of Paul and Capella, they would have Bird rights which allows the Rockets to spend up to the max per player to retain. After that, the league allows teams above the cap (and luxury tax) to sign players to minimum contracts.

There's also no guarantee each player gets or demands the max.

It is likely they keep both. I think the bigger uncertainty is if Ariza stays.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Hell naw. For Lebron you go into Luxury. Let Burks go and bring home a chip. Gobert/Favors/Lebron/Mitchell/Rubio

Udoh/Crowder/Exum/Sefolosha/Jerebko/Ingles is your bench

I think you would have to get rid of Crowder and Burks while waiving all of Udoh/Thabo/Jonas and renouncing Favors/Exum/Neto to reach Lebron's max.

So yeah, it seems pretty impossible. Utah would have to decimate it's roster just to make room for Lebron and probably have to trade a first round draft pick to get off Burks/Crowder without taking guaranteed salary back.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Favors/Gobert/Lebron is LOL-worthy. That ain't going to work in any scenario. Just having Gobert and a stretch 4 might be a little tough on spacing for Bron.

 

[NUMBERICA]

This is fantasy ****, but if you can land Lebron, you might consider rolling with Favors at C and trading Gobert.

That's the one scenario I can think of that you entertain the idea of dumping Gobert for Favors. This would also solve the cap issue lickety-split.

 

[infection]

If LeBron wants to come to Utah, then he’s already cleared some pretty significant hurdles that something like “can’t offer a full max” would be a much less significant hurdle.

 

[tleikheen]

Funny ....Utah has more fantasy threads than any other NBA realgm forum....always fantasizing that the top players will come to Utah.
Jazz best opportunity for getting top players is to follow the blueprint of when they got Carlos Boozer and Mehmet Okur before they blossomed.

Resign Dante Exum (22 yrs old) and go after Mario Hezonja (23 yrs old) and let them grow with Mitchell (21 yrs old and Gobert (25 yrs old)

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

If LeBron wants to come to Utah, then he’s already cleared some pretty significant hurdles that something like “can’t offer a full max” would be a much less significant hurdle.

Lebron has said he isn't taking less than the max.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

This is fantasy ****, but if you can land Lebron, you might consider rolling with Favors at C and trading Gobert.

That's the one scenario I can think of that you entertain the idea of dumping Gobert for Favors. This would also solve the cap issue lickety-split.

Only if Lebron would commit to a multiple year deal, which he wouldn't do.

 

[Hotdog]

This is actually one time where I don't think its completely out of the realm of possibility that we could land Lebron and PG13. If its ever going to happen this would be the year.

Look at the possible destinations for Lebron and PG13.

Im just going to list where they would play by preference to win. Then scratch off who probably cant afford them.

1. Houston - Lebron and PG would probably both like to play there. But thats probably not going to happen because of cap issues. There would have to be some serious compromises on salary. Thats if they want to keep Capella and Paul.

2. Lakers - I could see both Lebron and PG13 signing here. The Lakers have the best salary situation out of anybody, and they could still get better if they could unload Deng. Probably one of them end up there if not both.

3. New Orleans just because of Anthony Davis. But thats a tricky salary situation.

4. There current teams OKC/ Cleveland. But doubt they want to return.

5. Philly - a definite possibility for one of them to go there.




Thats a very short list of teams for them to go to. So why not Utah after the season we just had and all the hype surrounding Donovan? I dont think it would be all that hard to make cap room. I dont think Burks would be hard to unload.

Narrow those down and its really only out of Philly, Lakers, and Utah. I just cant see Houston finding a way to do it and it being worth going there. Is Chris Paul going to decline his last real chance at that big deal? Are they going to let Capella go? Well, thats less enticing to play there.

My guess is Lebron and PG go to LA. But man, Utah really would be close to getting one of them

Lonzo Ball
PG13
Lebron
Kuzma
Ingram

Thats an interesting squad.