re: Asik signs 5 year deal for $60 million, 5 year not guaranteed

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We will land a big time player next season I am sure of it

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Austin Rivers will be available.

i wasnt too excited when i first saw that it was 5 years.
But knowing Asik, in our eyes, is only 4 years worth 12% of the teams total cap, you cant be mad about that deal.

There really werent and arent many other options at center that were available besides resigning Asik. And as much as his fumbles and missed layups want to make me puke at times, he is very valuable to this team. We need his big body and rebounding.

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both contracts will likely be very tradable (AA and Asik), so i don't think it's a big deal.

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Not so sure.

Many bitch about Asik in the GS series. Ajinca can score some, but is just as much of a liability v small ball. He was invisible in that series too.

ETA: The Kings had to give up a ton to dump not unreasonable contracts for meh players.

It's not even the $ for me. I just don't see the wisdom in locking up both guys for this long. Maybe Ajinca can be trade filler, but I don't see a big market for either guy.

And, from reading other comments, I still don't see why people think Evans is desirable across the league. His contract is fine, but everyone will have cap space over the next 2 years. I don't think expirings have the value they used to and I certainly think that value will drop as the cap explodes by $40M over the next 2 seasons.

If Reke improves on last year, especially on D, he will be tradeable. 18/5/5 guys don't grow on trees. The real problem is what if Jrue is not healthy?

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I still don't see why people think Evans is desirable across the league. His contract is fine, but everyone will have cap space over the next 2 years

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You and I agree about Tyreke's limitations, so I totally agree that he won't be desirable across the league, but I think we will have a few serious suitors for him when you consider his salary compared to the new reality of NBA money.

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I think we will have a few serious suitors for him when you consider his salary compared to the new reality of NBA money.

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Won't that be true of everyone who is under contract though? And I agree he has trade value. For what though, I'm not sure. But he's the only guy who wants to take a shot sometimes, so we better replace him with someone who has an offensive skill set.

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the MLE is for teams over the cap (so the extra salary has already been distributed) and is a pretty set standard for free agency

you need salary to acquire salary and exceptions in the NBA. being near the cap is terrible (where we'd be if we renounced asik)

the only other theoretical option would be to renounce asik and everyone else next year and try FA

of course, i doubt AD would have re-upped with us and we'd be terrible next year

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Nothign in here addressed what you quoted that i said. and if we are healthy, we could have Steisma at center and win 50+ games this year. Asik isn't helping us win any more games than we should if we are healthy, except maybe against Memphis.

I'm more than aware of the MLE and what not and why we had to resign this bumbling idiot. I know we had no other choice but to resign him.
I"m just very unhappy with him getting 4 years at $12 million a year. He's not a $12 million a year center in any year, he's barely an $8. He's the worst offensive center in the league, and his effort night in night out isn't where it needs to be. He's useful against Memphis, and that's about it.

He's never going to be in games late, and once we get to the playoffs, his minutes will decrease drastically, unless we are playing Memphis. We aren't Golden State where we can afford to have millions on the bench when it matters b/c we have 3 starters making a combined $7 million on rookie deals that play like all stars.

If he wasn't on this team this year, and we signed Kevin Seraphin are Bismack Biyomba, the difference in wins/losses would be negligible. Outside of beating Memphis, nothing that he does helps us win games more than those two MLE guys at best would.

But since Asik isn't good, and everyone else knows that, we had no choice to resign him so we could keep our exceptions, and we had no chance at S&T b/c no one wants him, at least not enough to give us anything worth a shite back.

Now we have about $4-5 million less to spend next year b/c we overpaid this goon.

The fact that this idiot just got $48 million guaranteed to him should make NFL players throw up.

All that being said, if he would just play with more effort, and get after it more, i'd be somewhat happy with him going forward, and i hope that's what happens. I know he can play better than he did last year. I don't expect him to catch every ball, but he needs to quit being a girl and go up with authority and dunk the damn ball. Quit letting little guys out jump him for rebounds. I have confidence he can play better b/c all he needs to do is play with more effort. He plays like he did last year, we will be stuck with his shitty contract for a while.

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we will have a few serious suitors for him when you consider his salary compared to the new reality of NBA money.

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Could very easily be right. My craw was stuck with the idea that they can snap their fingers and move Evans to get cap space to then land Durant/max guy next summer.

I just wonder how much value an expiring has when everyone will have space and almost everyone has max space.

Well this thread went from full retard to logical. Congrats guys. It's a solid contract moving forward. Asik will improve with this coaching staff.