Capela: To extend or not extend, that is the question

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Why the hell would we extend him at the max? He won't even ask for it because he's nowhere near a max player. Here, Clint, have some extra money that your agent didn't request.

"I don't like Capela, so I'll set up a strawman argument to turn people against him."

 

To answer your question, no, i agree with you here. That's why while i like Capela, if he's the wall we need to take down to get the third star (assuming we get at least one this summer), i would be ok with it.

Just one thing though, are we sure that, let's say we swap Anderson with Millsap at 25x this summer and sign Nene with a big one year deal to have a solid expiring next summer...are we sure that in this scenario we wouldn't be able to open up enough cap space next summer even with Capela cap holds being closer to 7M? What are the projections on the cap for next year? If there're any at this point.

 

I'm willing to extend him at ~$13 million (which inflation-adjusted is really just a moderately above MLE $7-mil type deal from just ten years ago).

Above that, I'm not saying let him go, but he'll be restricted. Let the market set his value. I expect $16-17M to be his eventual value. If it goes above that, he's replaceable. If it goes to that exactly, then fine, match it.

Clint is not a max player. If someone thinks he is, then let them have fun with that.

 

No matter who comes in, we keep CC....long term.

 

It really depends on what we do in free agency. You can't extend him before pursuing these other max free agents and whether or not it's worth it to pay him depends on how good we are expected to be with him.

 

Eh, good question...not sure.

 

I don't know. I don't what they're going to do. For all I know, they include Capela in a trade for a superstar. Until the dust settles, I cannot answer this question. But I will say he is an extremely valuable player to this team as currently constructed. I doubt Morey will extend though. He never extends non-superstars. He'll wait until restricted free agency and see what he has to match.

 

I'd love to get him at 14 mill per or under, but that being said I don't think it's realistic. If trash guys like Mozgof/Noah/Mahinmi at 30 are getting get 16-18 per.

I'd extend him at a front loaded 4 year 65 mill deal after we spend all of our FA cash, if he takes it.

At that price he'd likely be a positive trade asset, if we wish to move him down the road. I'd also be fine with a 3 year front loaded 55 mill deal.

The incentive for extending this offseason is that we would get a trade piece at this deadline if we were to send out all of of medium contracts for cap space or in a trade for PG. We also might be able to get a better deal then him now rather then next summer after he's had another good season with Harden.

 

Can we get a list of people that said Clint Capela is a "budding superstar"?

We will all be waiting.

 

Nope.

You keep his low cap hold for 2018 unless he's willing to sign for a significant discount.

The goal for this summer should be thus....

Trade for George
Sign CP3

Then hope Capela becomes a 4th star.

If George walks in 2018, then go after LeBron.

 

think they're confusing CC with the Dmo fan club

 

I voted no but the interesting factor this summer for this situation will be nerlens nOEL...

What does he get??

 

some dumb team will give him max or close to it. *coughs* dallas

 

Hehe, you made me laugh!

 

I would hope that they would consider extending Capela. This kid continues to improve year after year and he's getting bigger. The perfect compliment to Harden in the PnR. FT% is much improved and he's not bad defensively. Not much on the market for young big men. He has to much potential to trade or chose not to extend. Invest in the future.