Zion, Poole and Murray will make a combined $108.9m next season

Why throw Dumars in there? He had nothing to do with Murray/ Z and if you'd actually rather CJ > Poole/ Bey then idk what to tell you.

DJ could still be the best player on our roster.

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ather CJ > Poole/ Bey then idk what to tell you.

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I'd rather not be locked in for Poole for two more years after this. CJ is off Washington's books after this year. It was a bad trade.

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DJ could still be the best player on our roster.

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Then we are destined to never win anything.

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I'd rather not be locked in for Poole for two more years after this. 

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Well thankfully we aren't either.

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CJ is off Washington's books after this year. It was a bad trade.

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Why do people constantly think that LOSING the salary from CJ/ Zion without replacing it helps us? Its the dumbest opinion on here this season.

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Then we are destined to never win anything

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How can you have this opinion while also being dense enough to think that letting CJ/ Z walk and losing that salary helps us? We are destined to never win anything but you expect us to use the space from CJ to do what? Sign imaginary elite level players with pur $5mil cap space? Shits hilarious.

The amount of idiots that don't understand having Poole gives us $30mil to use and NOT having Poole/ CJ gives us NOTHING to use is astonishing. Y'all really don't even know wtf you are saying.

Pelicans having Poole for $30mil and being able to take back $30mil is a good thing.

Pelicans having Z for $40mil and being able to take back $40mil is a good thing.

Whatever bullshite "could have" "should have" response to this doesn't matter. Having them now is better than not having them now. We do not gain anything not having those guys.

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We need to start clearing the books though for a rebuild, not trading around like for like salaries in hopes of a quick fix

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Clearing the books doesn't help you. You really don't understand what you are saying. We have $156mil in cap space. We can spend up to $189mil because of the contracts already on the roster. If you get rid of Pooles $30mil instead of having $189mil next year you now have $156mil accounted for and only $3mil to spend.

What helps more? $3mil on a FA or a player up to $30mil from somewhere else?

Having that extra space only helps if we have to pay Trey, Herb, Queen, Fears, etch. Guess what we don't have to do for the next 3+ years? The answer is pay Trey, Herb, Queen, Fears etccc. Whatever imaginary space you are talking about doesn't really exist and doesn't actually help us unless that person is already on the roster.

Letting Poole, CJ, Z walk doesn't help us it hurts us. The only way those things help us is if we take back players that we can re-sign.

For this example Bey is that player. The extra $ in a trade helped us potentially get another long term piece that we wouldn't have gotten in FA or with "space".

You typed all that when all you had to say was that you’re cool with the play-in being our perpetual ceiling

Lol you’re off the rails

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Utah rebuilt
Brooklyn rebuilt

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What did they rebuild?

And no shite we need picks. We're not getting lottery picks from Poole and Murray's contracts.

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We need to start clearing the books though for a rebuild, not trading around like for like salaries in hopes of a quick fix.

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But we aren't a free-agent destination, so we don't need to clean out salary. We are required to spend 90% of the cap, in any case. We can only build the team through trades and through the draft.

The NBA salary cap is a little confusing.