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I've been a Rudy skeptic in terms of what ceiling this team achieves with him as its Center (realizing full well that he raised the floor considerably). But after I saw the On/Off and lineup numbers from last season's playoffs with him on the court, the data just overwhelmed my argument.FNG wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 6:17 pm I’m in the “very good deal” camp. I can get as frustrated as most hete with Rudy’s bad hands, but I also see how our defense falls apart almost every time he leaves the court. Getting the reigning DPOY for Jalen Suggs money is another TC coup. I think our chances of winning a championship in the next three years got better yesterday.
Lip you are forgetting that 2025-2026 in when the new TV deal kicks in. The cap is gonna go up that 10 percent.Lipoli390 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 12:32 pmNot sure about your math. With Rudy’s new contract, the Wolves will have a guaranteed payroll next season of $186.52 million for 12 players without NAW, assuming Naz and Randle exercise their player options. That’s only about $2.5 million below the current second apron. The NBA cap went up 3.4% from last year to this year. Assuming the cap goes up by the max 10% (which is really optimistic), the new second apron threshold would be $207.79 million. Keeping Naz will likely require an additional $10 million (putting him at $25M next season). That would put the Wolves payroll at $196.52 million with 12 players. Keeping NAW would obviously put us over the second apron again since I can’t see signing him at a salary of less than $10 million per year. If we let NAW go and signed two minimum vet players, it would add 4 million to our payroll and put us at $200.52M. That would put us over the 1st apron of $195.94M (assuming a 10% increase in the cap)60WinTim wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 12:37 am If the extension is structured as a normal NBA contract, the first year would start at 34 mil with 8% raises the next two years. That's roughly a 12.5 mil savings for next year's cap. The Wolves would be just into the luxury tax, but well under the 1st and 2nd aprons. Although they'll to figure out a NAZ extension, along with adding a couple more bodies to the roster...
Bottom line is that this team will remain above the 1st apron next season and will be hard pressed to get below the 2nd apron even with the new Rudy contract unless we let NAW go AND either pass on re-signing Naz or trade Randle for salary savings. The Rudy deal opens the door ever so slightly to getting below the 2nd apron, but it will still be very challenging. There’s no way we’ll get below the 1st apron unless we blow it up after this season. My prediction is that either Naz or Randle will play somewhere else next season.