Re: Parker tears his left ACL (sadly again)
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 4:57 pm
kekgeek1 wrote:TheSP wrote:kekgeek1 wrote:Brooklyn is going to be a pain in the ass for us the next couple of years because they have no assets or picks they need to take chances. Why not offer lavine the max if you are them. You mentioned shabazz and not extending him, well in hindsight it backfired on the wolves he will now make more money and will he be the player we have seen the last 2 months next year when he is no longer in a contact year. Look at Brooklyn again they offered Tyler johnson and Crabbe big money last year and they are solid players but the Nets made them pay and they can and I bet will make us pay for shabazz.
The wolves really don't have assets at all they have the big 3 what I doubt they trade any of them. Gorgui who probably has a little value and rubio who has unknown value. Dunn is the X Factor will he improve or is he like Derrick Williams where we keep him year after year because of potential and his value drops and we get luc Richard (last name I can't spell). The wolves can't trade their pick during a season until 2022 or if we do make the playoffs still can't trade it until 2020.
Lavine injury has really muddied the waters of the wolves
The Lavine injury certainly sucks, but I'm all for letting him test the market at this point given the circumstances. If Lavine demands a max or near max deal and another team is willing to offer it coming off an injury then let him walk. Max money can bring great players, if they're not comfortable risking it on Lavine then risk it on someone else. The Woofs may not be a glory team at the moment in terms of bringing in max players they will absolutely be more attractive as the big two of KAT and Wiggins get better and Thibs hopefully adds better supporting players... combined with the rest of the NBA spending their portion of the big cap bump options will also decrease.
Losing Lavine to a max offer will not hurt as much as signing him to a max or near max and his never living up to it, even if in the end he does so elsewhere. Be smart, not desperate.
Edit: After posting that it occurs to me that desperate pretty much describes 90% of the Woofs signings over the past decade, lets not do that anymore... please.
Can someone help me out and tell me what are cap situation would be if wiggins, towns get the max. Bazz about 11 mil, gorgui contact and put in the Rubio contact (the amount I would guess we would recieved in any trade). Just wonder can we make a big splash in free agency assuming someone wants to come here what has never happened
The priority needs to be this summer while we still have space, esepecially if we could dump Rubio and the Pek retirement goes through. I think by the time these extensions become a reality it's going to be really tough.
If Taylor refuses to ever pay the tax again we're going to be really hard pressed though.