10% of $80-$90 million = $8 - $9 million. Stretching Gordon and letting Rivers go gets you $10 million in cap space if the cap increases to $67 million as projected before TV money.

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You don't think a team wouldn't frontload and kill any Pelicans offer? Or that those guys couldn't possibly fetch $5M less than Hayward/Parsons?

Are we actually disagreeing? The original post I replied to sounded like you said it'd take more than $10 million to sign a SF, but now I think we're both saying it will take about $10 million, which is what we could have if we stretch Gordon.

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Posted by corndeaux

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Posted on 11/27/14 at 6:33 am to TigerinATL

Yeah. It will be tight but possible. It wouldn't shock me if all but Gerald get over $10M/year, but who knows what the new landscape will be. Meeks getting 6, Bradley getting 8 signal a new reality to me.

Do teams get exceptions to exceed the cap to fill out the roster (excluding Bird Rights players) or do they have to fit all 12 under the cap?

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Posted by TigerinATL

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Posted on 11/27/14 at 7:58 am to corndeaux

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Do teams get exceptions to exceed the cap to fill out the roster (excluding Bird Rights players) or do they have to fit all 12 under the cap?

Once you go under the cap you lose most of your exceptions. So unless we hit on minimum signings we honestly might not be better depthwise next season, we'll just be turning Gordon's slot into a better fitting starter. We could possibly be worse if you can't resign Rivers or a comparable bench player for the $2.7 million cap room exception.

Making the playoffs or at least coming very close is pretty important. Not only does making the playoffs likely keep your 1st, it also takes the heat off of Demps/Monty because it might take another full year of developing guys like Withey/Smith/Young and adding an MLE player and draft pick(if we don't trade it) in the 2016 offseason before this team becomes deep enough to be a solid sure fire playoff team. By then we'll all want it to be a bonafide contender, but we'll settle for playoff team as long as we keep seeing upward momentum.

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