re: Pels sign DeAndre Jordan

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then they just burned 3.6MM for nothing

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Not really

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Because the NBA doesn’t want teams to avoid signing veteran players in favor of cheaper, younger players, the league reimburses clubs who sign veterans with three or more years of experience to one-year, minimum-salary contracts. Those deals will only count against the cap – and against a team’s bank balance – for $2,296,274, the minimum salary for a player with two years of experience.

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On top of that we literally do not have a center besides him available.

Missi, Karlo, and Looney are all likely out

You're starting someone like Dickinson or Queen at Center

Lol dude is worried about $3.6M of the organization’s money that will keep Dickinson on the bench. Jordan can give us decent minutes for what we need. I recently saw a video of him training and he’s still going hard. Good acquisition.

The people saying this is a bad signing:

D. Jordan is not going to play 30 minutes a game. This was a "we need a veteran" to lead our young guys.

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Pretty sure he plays.

Nice

My guess he'll get the start and Queen will be the backup 5...or we may go a lot of small ball tonight..

They're the same age

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Sad thing is small ball will not play Wemby off the court. He is so athletic and agile, he can play with the smalls.

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Go super small. Put Jose or Fears guarding him, being they’re like waist high to him should be able to get some easy steals at least

If Queen had quicker feet I’d say he could actually do a good job on Wemby because he’s about 5x stronger than him but there’s no way he can guard him on the perimeter.