Assuming we get Butler... who else would be on the team?

i believe ponds is also signed already to guaranteed money. also, who's davis?

 

Hopefully not a team of scrubs that can't come in and score like EGO did if Paul, Butler, or James get injured. He was our second highest scorer and best 3 pt shooter the whole month leading up to the playoffs. Clint was playing really well before the bacterial infection. Does Butlers worth equal EGO AND Clint? Trading 2 of our top 5 scorers for him just seems risky.

 

Nene gone in trade IMO.

 

Clutchfans 3 PT shooting contest fills out the roster.

 

I completely forgot about Ponds … (neither he nor Brown have been added to the spotrac page which is what I used to calculate the numbers).

Deyonta Davis was a center they signed recently to a non-guaranteed deal. There's also Moses Brown , a center out of UCLA that signed as a UDFA. I don't see both of them making the roster but I think its safe to say one "developmental" center is on the roster just because of the salary constraints.

I didn't add Michael Frazier or Chris Chiozza as I didn't think they'd make the roster.

The point was that with use of the MLE & BAE they can only field a roster of 14 players for the duration of the season and be <$500k under the apron.

 

That's unlikely as the idea behind moving EG / Capela is to open space under the apron to fill out the roster - Signing Shumpert defeats that purpose unless you both sign and trade him prior to making the trade for butler.

And really , why would a team hard cap themselves for Shumpert ? Why would they give up an asset for a player they could just sign as a free agent.

Now if Butler were to take the opt in dream scenario of this …. Yeah , you can sign Shumpert as an asset but if the hard cap is in play , forgetaboutit.

 

is the team still paying Matt Maloney? lol

 

Only thing i dont like is that our team would be old af ,honestly this may sound crazy but ill trade tucker for a 1st then deal that off with cp3 to get off his contract then u would have 45+ mill in cap space.

 

The return of Austin Rivers please......
Don't let me down Morey

 

Starters:
James Harden
Chris Paul
Bobby Brown
Jimmy Butler
Deyonta Davis

Bench:
G Green
Frazier
Duval
Chiozza
Clark

Note: It’s possible Morey convinces Nene to sign a 2-3 year extension for the MLE. He’s still valuable as a backup center when we go to our big lineup with Clark sliding over to PF

3 stars = championship team!

 

These guys are available

 

Since the Rockets are villains of the league anyway, just go find a bunch of gritty, grimy junkyard dogs who will do whatever it takes to win. Including in-game taekwondo.

 

At this point, Nene is an assistant coach who gets minutes. That's all.

 

If everything goes right.. (cross fingers)

Paul
Harden
Butler
Tucker
Jordan

J. Crawford/Derrick Rose (your pick)
D.House
D.Green
K.Looney
I.Hartenstein

Trying to throw some good JuJu out there..

 

You forgot Bobby Brown.

 

Hoping for this:
Paul
Harden
Jaylen Brown
Butler
Jordan

Love
Tucker
Looney
D. House
G. Green

 

And Ryan Bowen

 

And Zan Tabak or Pete Chilcutt