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Man almost none of this is true. The main points of contention: - a **** ton of non-max extensions got done. it ain't max or nothing. - There are catastrophic examples of squeezing extension eligible players and ending up having it bite you in the *** hard. Gordon here and Jalen Brunson another.

This is correct. Having half assed tanks in the Wemby and Boozer drafts is just sad… in a kind of funny way?

Yes. They will have a window to talk. If his agent is worth his salt he will know what is out there for him and will have zero reason to settle with us for any kind of discount in that brief negotiating period.

Agents want to get paid. Just like your real estate agent... if you get 20% more that is great but mostly they just want to get pen to paper. A lot can happen in 12 months. An agent locking in commissions would be a much bigger priority over maximizing the dollars in 12 months. The agent this...

Wiz get revenge for us blowing up the Ace Bailey shenanigans.

The Locke thing is important. He sucks with cap stuff. That was something he heard and repeated as a hypothetical. The fact that we don't have numbers is actually a smoking gun in a way that they didn't negotiate. We know for instance Tari Eason turned down $100M because not all of it was...

The issue is Was and Bkn will have a lot of space. I think Nets would move Claxton and would likely prefer Walker. So if you are sitting on like $100M in cap space... why not throw a $40M offer at Walker? Chicago and Lakers will have interest but may not get overly wild. Would likely try to...

Would be hilariously sad if we didn't tank hard enough in the two most fruitful drafts in our tank era.

Trade him or pay him. If he is playing anywhere near the level we saw last night his value may go up substantially... but the @infection principle of trade value comes in. It was just such an own goal not to settle something in the 25-30M range and just structure it so its friendly to our...

Its just so crazy to be this stupid and greedy when you have made that much money.

Pretty sure that's fake.

First BOGO game of the year. I think we eat these guys up though. They have no bigs to speak of. Walker Kessler 30 pt triple double incoming.

Yeah if they had actually taken it to the deadline and really dug in... I wouldn't be like this.

The Maxey deal was different because it was max now or max later. Thinking you need 45M instead of $30M in cap space is just such a boomer way to think about cap space. If you get a commitment from Trae Young you will find a way to do a sign and trade. The last couple times we have had cap...

Sure. They know the exact amount of space they need and its 45M... not 50M. Faith and belief can also motivate. Walker wants to be great. Literally every reporter talks about how he takes losing the hardest. The parallels to the Hayward situation are pretty amazing here. "Flexibility" has...

Not necessarily. We also know a bit about what they think about Cody based on guys getting fired and him being out of the rotation. If cap space is worth sacrificing some benefits with a player that is actually good and may be your 2nd best player currently... who is also young... and is also...

We have commitment issues. We just do. Its all over the place.

I didn't say they had no idea. They don't know how far apart they really were though. If one is sitting at 20M and the other at 30M you may think it lands at 25M... but unless you do the work you don't know if its more like 23 or 28. You also never know when one side might cave in... we shut the...

On the pod I said that the acid test for the cap space theory is whether they pick up or decline Cody's option. If 10M in cap space is worth fussing with Walker's extension, then Cody's option would free up another $5M in "flexibility".

I just think that size is all the way back and you won't have the luxury of having the size you need also be able to shoot. You will need a few different types of bigs unless you have a Jokic or Wemby. Its also on a coach to bend to the strengths of their roster. You can't be so locked in that...