re: Why is the tank off?

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When AD gets his extension we'll only have AD, Holiday, Tyreke, Rivers and a Ryno cap hold on the books. If you dump Rivers (maybe bring him back with the cap room exception) you'd have enough cap space to go after a $10 - $12 million starter. It's far from ideal, but if the goal is to add another $10 millionish player to the mix they can do it.

There's also the question of is the goal to add another $10 millionish player to the mix. That seems pretty unsustainable unless everyone else are on minimum or rookie deals. A better strategy might be adding slowly with the MLE.

Offseason of 2016 with Gordon off the books

Davis $17
Holiday $11
Ryno $10.6 (25% raise)
Tyreke $10.2
Ariza $5.5 (2014 MLE)
Koufos $5.1 (2015 MLE)
SF or Post scorer $5 (2016 MLE)
Rivers $4.2
Morrow $2.2 (2014 BAE)
2015 1st $1.5
Ajinca $1.2
Withey $1.2
Pierre Jackson $1.2
2016 1st $1.2

This is a pretty complete and balanced roster but it also would probably be slightly over the tax threshold, which makes me think adding another $10 millionish player to the mix may not be part of the plan. If it's not part of the plan, then the MLE should be in the salary range of the players we would be targeting anyway, we just can't fill both the 3 and 5 holes in the same offseason.

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