From what I've seen though, if we resign Jrue we will be capped out. So if that's the case, we just trashed his bird rights. If that's not the case, either we don't retain Jrue or we don't max him. Or at least that's my understanding.

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Posted by Crewz

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Posted on 2/24/17 at 8:23 pm to Mystictiger

It's not my fault that you read things that aren't true. I put an article up the day after the Cousins trade that explained everything in the simplest of terms.

Not my fault if I put all my superior knowledge out there for free and people don't take advantage of it.

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Posted by TigerinATL

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Posted on 2/24/17 at 8:47 pm to Mystictiger

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From what I've seen though, if we resign Jrue we will be capped out.

It's not that simple. There is an order of operations at play. Holiday's cap hold of $16.9 million is much less than he's likely to sign for. So while it's just his cap hold and not a new deal you can make moves to get under the cap like dumping Ajinca/QPon and and stretching Asik. That puts you around $14 million in cap space plus you'd get the Room Level Exception. So you could sign someone like Tim Hardaway Jr. or trade for $14 million worth of players and then have the Room Level Exception which is going to be around $4.5 million. You could probably use that to resign one of Casspi or Cunningham. And once you've used your cap space then you resign Holiday.

You do lose the MLE and the $3.5 million trade exception you got in the Cousins trade, but as MM has been saying, the Pels have a lot of options for filling out the roster, some using cap space and some staying over the cap.

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