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CJ Miles incoming? Luc Richard Mboute? return of the Bazz!? wtf is Thibs plotting now lol

I will say that I would have been upset by this before the Paul George trade but now I think the pick will be in the 20's so I"m cool with it

Probably unrealistic but I wonder if it would be enough to get us Beverley from the Clippers.

Someone will take it.

I'll reserve my significant angst if this is true...till I see who they get with this money.

The thought did cross my mind they could be doing that to keep Bazz which would be kinda hilarious.

Phenom's_Revenge wrote:Someone will take it.

agreed easily, I honestly expect a minor bidding war between teams to see who has the most valuable 2nd rounder to send back along with the cap space

I would prefer that this isn't to retain Bazz though. I like him but this team needs different skills than he has.

I really don't see who we get for the around 10 million we would have as a result of the trade that is going to be significantly better than the guy we can get with the room exception to the point it is worth trading away a first round pick even if it is a later 1st round pick. I just don't see the proposed value being worth it.

What if it's 2 guys? That's what I'm hoping for

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khans2k5 wrote:I really don't see who we get for the around 10 million we would have as a result of the trade that is going to be significantly better than the guy we can get with the room exception to the point it is worth trading away a first round pick even if it is a later 1st round pick. I just don't see the proposed value being worth it.

They need more then one freeagent... I would think they need, SG? SF? ? PG?

Phenom's_Revenge wrote:What if it's 2 guys? That's what I'm hoping for

Yeah that could make some sense...maybe.

So I was under the impression that the Gibson signing basically took out all the cap space for the Wolves but that's not the case. I used the numbers Sporttrac estimated for Teague and Gibson's salaries which are I assume the lowest numbers for this year possible. So the Wolves around 4 million left before they are over the cap. If they moved Aldrich I assume they could get to over 11 million in space to sign another player. Or as Phenom suggested they could split that up between a couple players and still have the room exception.

player salary
Butler 19,300,894
Taj Gibson 13,658,537
Dieng 14,112,360
Wiggins 7,574,323
Aldrich 7,300,000
Towns $6,216,840
Belly $3,949,999
Tyus $1,471,382
Patton $2,247,480
Martin (stretch) $1,360,305
Jeff Teague $17,592,593



Total Salaries 94,784,713