Cousins contract question..?

Because, you let it play out til allstar break. If this team is doing well, he is gonna stay. He makes more money by saying. If this team is doing terrible, then you look for trade options.

Yes they can, but the extension would be based on his current, old cap contract so he’d lose a lot of money versus waiting for FA.

Yes. If they offered an extension now it would start at $21.5. Next summer his max will start him at $30. So about an $8-$9 million per year difference.

One year less and they can only offer 5% raises each year and the Pels can offer 8%. 4/$130 vs 5/&175. Technically $45 million more with the extra year but only $5-$6 million more over the first 4 years.

If this team makes the playoffs and/or trades for Bledsoe I have little doubt that Cousins will resign.

I've been hoping for the Bledsoe move for so long. Dunno if we have close to enough to get him though

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Dunno if we have close to enough to get him though

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It won't be cheap. I think you're looking at a minimum of Moore + Ajinca + 1st + 1-2 of another 1st, Diallo, Jackson. And everything but the firsts might need to go to another team because Phoenix has plenty of young bigs and guards. How about a 3 way with the Suns and Sixers? Let's assume the Sixers are making a playoff push so they want to add veterans to make sure they get in.

Jared Dudley, E'Tuwann Moore and Frank Jackson to the Sixers

Jahlil Okafor, 1 of Korkmatz/Luwawu, Ajinca, Pels 1st to the Suns

Bledsoe to the Pels.

Suns get a 1st, a young wing prospect, and a rotation player in Okafor while cutting the money they owe Dudley, a contract they tried to dump on the Pels before the draft, in half by turning him into Ajinca.

The only question I have there is I'm not sure if Frank Jackson and playoff ready vets are enough for Philly to give up Okafor and Kormatz or Luwawu. The Pels might have to throw 2nds or maybe swap out Jackson for a 1st.

From the Pels perspective if it helps you keep Boogie and make the playoffs you do it, especially if you think you can retire Asik and won't need a 1st to dump him.

The trade deadline is Feb 8 and you can't apply until it's been a year or Feb 10. So they won't actually know, but if it's February 1st and Asik still hasn't played I think they'll have a pretty good idea.

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Sure, they'd have an idea if he was gonna retire, but it wouldn't be official until after the deadline.

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Right.

I've seen the tax line projected at $123 million. With any luck you've dumped Moore, Ajinca and Asik and kept Diallo on the way to that top heavy roster. So you have about $11-$12 million to fill out the bench with. Split the MLE between Clark and a wing (Swaggy P/Will Barton/Ennis) You'd have to let Rondo/Dante/Miller go or bring them back on minimum deals and probably hope Jalen Jones and Charles Cooke are ready to contribute.

Bledsoe/Clark
Holiday/Min/Cooke
Hill/Ennis
AD/Jones
Boogie/Diallo/Min

Benson's going to have to eventually be ok going into the tax because the year after that Bledsoe would be a UFA expecting a raise of $5-$10 million and if Boogie resigning convinced AD to resign he'll be getting a $10+ million raise that year too.