Except in that scenario Philly would have paid Simmons, Fultz, Embiid, Okafor etc. above the value of their rookie contracts, so no they wouldn't be able to sign all of those rookies, and wouldn't have nearly $60M in cap room.
The rookies will be going to sign with Atlanta or Orlando etc if...
The second part is a good point.
The first one is not how this would work, there is no reason you would have to eliminate the cap and no a lot of rookies would not be playing for the minimum, second rounders most likely would be, but they're not shifting the needle on title teams. Alot of the...
The rookies would be limited to rookie deals, they would be free agents. So someone like Fultz would be able to make $15M this year. No competitive team is going to be able to give hime that kind of contract
He also said there was a deal done for him and PG to head to Cleveland on draft night that didn’t go through for whatever reason. We know Love would have been going to Denver in this trade, but what was NYK getting?
He's only slightly bigger than LeBron, and was a dominant defender/rebound who scored more efficiently (not better) than Shaq. He was also hampered by a bad back, not sure what more people wanted from him. Not to mention he was a monster in the playoffs.
Could he have been a little better...