Àre we stuck with this same team next year?

That depends on the direction the team chooses. Dump Tyreke and don't resign Ryno and you've got around $28-$32 in cap space give or take ADs Rose Rule. I think the real question is who can you get with that money and the same FO. Demps is probably a bigger impediment to change, not lack of cap space.

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I think you'll see a new GM trying to facilitate sign and trades of EG and Ryno

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Who will sign and trade for either guy when they can just sign them outright? Evans/Anderson S/T were when they were RFA.

They're not stuck with this team, but there aren't a lot of exciting moves I can see. Free agents are meh, everyone has cap space, and no legit help is itching to play on this dumpster fire. They could get into bidding wars for middling guys, but that's dumb.

Bigger impediment than Demps himself is what Benson/Loomis want. Keep Demps, fire him, whatever. If they still want to "compete" this team will continue to make dumb moves. Maybe a Dumars/respected voice as a consigliere can get them to avoid shortsighted mistakes, but that's assuming Dumars has learned lessons from his own free agency blunders. BIG assumption. Too bad Silver didn't step and force the Pels to hire Colangelo

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Who will sign and trade for either guy when they can just sign them outright?

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There aren't many options. Toronto is stuck with no way to improve their roster other than trades now. But with what Ryno will be signing the salary limits your return to pretty much Patterson and Ross. You have to want those assets, you won't be getting any flexible, future assets like picks.

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I said "trying" to. It's very unlikely, but a new GM is going to be active. I think you'll see a guy make moves just to turn the roster over. Moves to set up the next move and the next offseason.

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Sure

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Toronto is stuck with no way to improve their roster other than trades now. But with what Ryno will be signing the salary limits your return to pretty much Patterson and Ross

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I don't think Toronto has as much interest in Anderson as this board does. You should listen to the Lowe Post with Stein- I linked it in the lsuhornet thread. Does Anderson really move the needle for them so much that they give him 4/$80 to lose one good rotation player and a young guy on a decent long term contract? I don't think so. Plus, Carroll will become more of a 4 as he ages.

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Tyreke is coming off a season of 3 knee surgeries why do you people think he can be moved so easy?

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Not easy at all. But there may be a market for him since his cap hit will be cheap. Maybe a team doesn't hit this summer or doesn't like their options.

But, again, the larger point is how the braintrust feels about any of these moves. Like ATL says, Evans isn't getting some big haul of picks. They were unwilling to move Anderson or Gordon for less than what they determined was fair, not so sure it would be different with Evans

Assuming he can pass a physical and the price is just absorbing Tyreke and maybe a 2nd, do you think no team would be interested in dropping $10 million on a 15/5/5 guy instead of paying a lot more for a lot longer to this crap class of FAs that are going to benefit greatly from cap escalation? Someone is going to pay Ryno $15+ for 3-4 years or more. Tyreke for 1 year at $10 million is a relative bargain to what the rest of the market is going to be getting and you don't tie up cap space long term like in 2017 when the FA class matches up better with the escalated cap. I'm not sure I want us using cap space on FAs this year. I'd rather absorb useful guys that their teams may no longer want like Tyreke.

It'd not doubting his talent I like Tyreke but he just missed a whole season. I don't see any team willing to take that huge of a chance with that big of an injury. I just hope we don't re-sign Ryan. That would be such a big mistake. We need defenders not more scorers.

Wish we could get rookie year Tyreke. He looked like the next star and the face of the Kings.

Averaged 20/5/5. First rookie to do it since LeBron

Could we possibly sign Derozan or Horford?

No and no, we don't have the cap and I think they stay on their teams. I would love Horford but not Derozan. They wouldn't sign here anyway.

No I just called bullshite we people act like they knows he's getting fired.