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Can clippers keep green, temple, Beverley and zubac after signing kawhi and Durant?

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by BigBum, Jun 29, 2019.

  1. BigBum

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    Can clippers keep all 4 free agents at 10 million dollars plus each according to cba rules? clippers have bird right on all 4.

    They have unlimited resources.
     
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    Nope, will have to renounce them(lose their bird rights then) & trade Danilo to open max space for Durant & Kawhi
     
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    Temple is a vet minimum guy at this point, Zubac probably won't get more than a BAE or tax MLE at best, but even that, i don't see it. Green and Pat are about to get paid i think, both around 10/12 per season imo.

    Personally i expect the Clippers to keep only Green, maybe also Pat if they strikeout on big names, but they don't really need him that much considering they have Shai, Lou, Robinson and maybe someone else i don't remember now.

    I think they might need to dump Gallo to sign two max contracts though.
     
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    Both Pat and Green would've to go to sign two max contracts?
     
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    I could be wrong, you may be right.
    I didn't really do the math. :D
    But smarter people did.

    Chandler: $19,200,843 cap hold
    Green: $14,946,667 cap hold
    Temple: $12,000,000 cap hold
    Beverley: $9,551,353 cap hold


    https://www.clipsnation.com/2019/6/...lary-cap-situation-kawhi-leonard-kevin-durant


    https://www.theringer.com/2019/4/25...lippers-kevin-durant-kawhi-leonard-doc-rivers

    The Clippers would need to create $70.85 million in cap space to outright sign both players. If the salary cap is $109 million, as it’s projected, they could create $78.2 million in space by (1) renouncing the rights to all their free agents other than center Ivica Zubac and (2) trading Danilo Gallinari. If Leonard and Durant were signed, then the left-over cash could be used to re-sign Beverley, and they’d have the rights to Zubac.

    Front office executives I’ve chatted with don’t think it’d be challenging to find a suitor for Gallo; he’s on an expiring contract and just had a career-best season. Not many teams could outright absorb his $22.6 million salary, but a few make sense, such as the Nets or Mavericks, or a club looking to accelerate their rebuild like the Hawks, or a playoff team looking to get over the hump like the Jazz or Pacers. The Clippers could have to sacrifice a future pick for a team to help them create two maximum slots, but that’d be a worthy price to pay.
     
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    Kd and kawhi will meet with jerry west and balmer tomorrow,
    Clippers have much better depth than others,
     
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    Teams and both players could demand sign and trade bc they have some degree of relationship,
     

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