re: Official 2018 Pelicans Offseason Thread

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I hope the Kings give Capela a max office space.

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Do they write that into the contract or something? You think they'd give him Vlade's office?

ETA: For real though, they should give Capela a 4 year 88 mil contract offer. The Rockets would be basically forced to match it, then the Kings can offer to take Anderson with picks/assets. That's what they'd do if they were smart, but I doubt that'll happen.

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That's what they'd do if they were smart, but I doubt that'll happen.

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Joel was on the radio the other day with Geltz or someone else that was saying teams are fearful that Houston might not match a big offer for Capela and you might get caught "holding the bag". They said Tilman is leveraged like crazy and may not be interested in paying huge tax bills going forward.

Fertitta had to come out and say that the tax wasn't influencing the Rockets free agency in any way at all after letting both Ariza and Mbah a Moute walk.

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Joel was on the radio the other day with Geltz or someone else that was saying teams are fearful that Houston might not match a big offer for Capela and you might get caught "holding the bag". They said Tilman is leveraged like crazy and may not be interested in paying huge tax bills going forward.

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Still not that bad for Sacramento. They'd have their front court of the future with Capela, Bagley, and Giles.

I mean, who else is going to take Sacramento's money? Capela is better than Lavine. They literally have 19 mil guaranteed on the books for next season and no one salary above 8.5 mil. I doubt they are luring any max contract players over there. Their best bet is to over pay for someone like Capela, and hope to hit it big in the lottery. Capela is a good player, but not good enough to make their team good and hurt their lottery pick.

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Still not that bad for Sacramento. They'd have their front court of the future with Capela, Bagley, and Giles.

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I agree. That's why I put holding the bag in quotes. Although they have a lot of young front court guys now: Bagley, Giles, Skal, WCS. I still think they should sign Capela and then try to get assets for WCS and Skal.

Westbrook is going to murder Schroeder. Muscala is a nice add for them, and if they can get Schroeder to be an off the bench scorer then it'll work out alright, but i can't see how he could play with Westbrook. Schroeder is a ball hog that isn't good at it. Not sure he can play off the ball and be a good contributor.

Happy to see that because I didn’t want Schroder

I give OKC props. This might bite them in the butt, but they consistently pursue talent and least try to make it work despite potential fit issues. With that being said, the biggest mistake OKC made was letting Harden get away. Without that happening, they would never have to make desperation trades to improve talent level for Oladipo, George, Anthony, Schroder.

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Oklahoma City and Atlanta in trade talks, with Thunder targeting Dennis Schroder

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Fantastic news. We are no longer in the running for Schroeder and OKC takes on a ticking time bomb.

He and Russ will kill each other

I think we will make one more move, albeit a smaller one, and the roll with that for a little bit into the season.

Yeah I think Dell saw last year how he got great value with guys like Clark by waiting out and letting the money dry up. Hopefully he's able to get a couple more guys on bargain deals.