re: Thoughts on Mo Bamba?

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We are barely under the tax this upcoming season

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correct. We are less than $1M away from the tax once Dyson signs, and that's 15 roster spots filled.


I would very much like to swap Jax for Bamba, but we'd need to send out someone else too that Orlando can absorb for us.

And i'm not giving Bamba anything over MLE type money. Sign him to a 3/$30 with an option on the 3rd year, and send them Jax and see if they actually want Graham. I know some of you think he has negative value, but i don't think he does. There's teams out there that would want him. They only have like 8 guys under roster that are even NBA players, so they have a lot of work to do in FA. They aren't bringing back Gary Harris and i'm sure they are looking to send Ross out.

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correct. We are less than $1M away from the tax once Dyson signs, and that's 15 roster spots filled.

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Yeah, I think it's something like ~500k in space remaining if they sign EJ to a deal similar to Herb's last season using part of the MLE.

Looking at our cap sheet for next offseason, we almost have to move Jax at some point this season, unless he shows that he can be a starting 5 in this league (doubtful). Even if Zion just gets the standard 25% max and doesn't escalate (which it would be pretty disappointing if he doesn't hit the benchmark), we're looking at something in the ballpark of 165 mil next offseason (assuming we extend Nance for roughly 10 mil). That's not even including the 6+ mil that we're going to have to pay next years top 10 first round pick that we get from the Lakers.

The salary crunch makes it even that much more likely that we're going to sign EJ to a guaranteed contract using partial MLE because we need low paying contracts on players who will contribute.

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The salary crunch makes it even that much more likely that we're going to sign EJ to a guaranteed contract using partial MLE because we need low paying contracts on players who will contribute.

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100% more likely
not only do they need to move off hayes's salary slot, they cant replace him with a vet. all rookies here on out

wow thats interesting

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NEW — The Orlando Magic aren’t expected to tender a qualifying offer to Mo Bamba by the end of Wednesday, which will make him an unrestricted free agent on Thursday, a person with knowledge of the situation @orlandosports :

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a loomis one-year "prove it"?

Ok, not expecting that one.

I figured they wouldn’t keep him but wouldn’t renounce him so that they could get something from a team looking to sign him.


If we can find a way to move both Temple and Jax, I’m up for this.

Demps did one with Julius Randle back in 2018

I think this makes it highly unlikely for us to get him. Our best chance was via a sign and trade.

I wouldn’t mind offering Mo a 3/21 with the 3rd year being a player option.

Call up Orlando and see if they would do a S&T and take Jax for Mo.

Buyout Temple and bring him in as an assistant, then sign Liddell.

Top 10:
CJ
Herb
BI
Zion
Val
Trey
Jose
Dyson
Nance
Mo

Reserves:
Kira
Billy
Liddell
Naji
Tae

That seems like a pretty good roster, and we should skirt right under the tax.

Wow dude is really solid. May even compete for starting role with Jonas. Dude had a 7/8 3-PT game and other solid 3-pt shooting games, very efficient numbers, posting a PER of 17.