Now we have a better chance at Brogdon

I hope the pels don't pay him 20 mil a year either

Bc I want a point guard that's a great scorer, good assist guy and plays good enough defense for 20 mil a year not a guy that averages 12 points/3 assist a game for 20 mil. If you can get him for 15 million a year that would be perfect

The tax line is estimated to be at $132m, apron at $136m. It will be tight for them, but not impossible.

They can't pay Lopez that much because they don't have his Bird rights, but they need him back. George Hill is an expiring guaranteed for only $1m next year. Mirotic was awful v the Raptors. He isn't a player in Finals level games; not sure why anyone would want to give him ~$20m/year ahead of Brogdon. Plus they have Ilyasova at $7m to replace some of his production.

Lastly, they are motivated to do whatever it takes to keep Giannis, like the Pels were the last couple of years with Davis. Keeping Giannis, Middleton, Brogdon together seems like their best trio for a Finals appearance. That trio was +35 in 72 minutes v the Raptors.

Brogdon score 15.5 this year next to 2 all stars. And for us You got jrue, Zion, and whatever comes in the Davis trade package to be the primary scoring options. He doesn’t need to be the first option. If he’s the 3rd or fourth option and is incredibly efficient and can be a low usage player while switchable on defense, that’s very precious in today’s nba and would fit like a dream on a team possibly consisting of jrue, Zion, Tatum

lol,what? so basically you want someone that just about no team actually has?

Which you are correct but I’d pay a couple million more a year if we think they will match our offer.

The thing is, they have to pay Middleton probably in the 25 mil per range also..

Next year with Giannis's supermax, they would have over 100 million tied up in 4 players (Giannis, Middleton, Bledsoe, Brogdon) if they signed him..

I think they let him walk, or at least try to get a s&t done for him

they’ll re sign Middleton and brogdon and try again
it’s the only play

the risk is that this was MILs chance, everything was lined up and they had Lopez on the cheap. but you can’t bail out now. They can always pull the cord after next year

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and will either have to give Lopez a raise or replace him and have mirotic

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They're going to prioritize Brogdon over both imo, over Mirotic obviously, no brainer there.

Here we go with the wanting to overpay and/or overtrade for young veterans again. 6 years of Dell has really rubbed off on a lot of you and you don’t even realize it lol. I even saw crewz recommending 4 yrs 84m and his defense was well Zion will be on a rookie deal so paying 32m a year for both of them is a good deal when you think about it like that. Yada yada yada, this is the exact same mistake that that we did when building around AD. Did y’all even watch the series? Brogdon was complete arse in every 4th quarter. He piled up empty stats early in the game and then was bricking the hell out of shots and/or dribbling off of his feet when the game actually mattered. He’s worth about 12m-15m a year max. Anything over that for me is a hard pass.