Pelicans still have around 10 mil in cap space

No they don’t. You don’t get exceptions like the MLE and BAE if you have cap space.

What's accurate? Where do we go from here?

Wrong

Naw fam

No I mean officially signed, not announced that they will sign.

I’m no cap guru but I guess we would be 7 million under the cap if we haven’t signed anyone yet?

But we also can’t use exceptions if we aren’t over the cap, and we can’t go over the cap to sign FAs that aren’t our own so...

I don’t know at this point.

We can sign a guy to a 7 mil contract and a minimum contract to be over

All things considered, losing Boogie for Randle is a plus for this season. Still won’t have Bird rights to resign him if he opts out though. Boogie’s basically got a redshirt season because of his Achilles tear and there is no telling if he ever regains even some of his ability.

A three headed monster of Randle, AD, and Niko sure keeps the game plan we had with Cousins.


Still not sure Payton is capable of starting at point for us, though. I’d want another guard but we’re not likely to get someone with Rondo’s leadership.

Any chance we go dumpster diving for Isiah Thomas? Not like he is looking at big money right now.

So at this point we have to get over the cap to use the exceptions.