re: Adding a modern Center without a “major” trade. How do we do it?

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Full MLE means you aren’t a tax team. Can they swing that? I haven’t looked at next year’s cap situation yet.

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Assuming no extensions/trades that change the numbers and Jonas/Naji walk, we are at ~$150M with 10 players for next year (Z, BI, CJ, Trey, Herb, Dyson, Larry, Hawk, Jose, EJ).

The full MLE is ~$12.9M. Luxury tax starts at $172M, so we would have ~$9M to fill 3 spots. The 21st pick is $2.7M, so we’d still have room to add essentially 2 minimum contracts and keep out of the tax.