2018 NBA Post-Season Thread

[Mexi]

Westbrook to the clips I could see happening

 

[Paulius]

You are literally basing this on nothing

Bet for a lifetime gif?

 

[CameronCrazy06]

Have fun deciding that in 2030 when he retires

 

[bosoxlover12]

Okay [member='BNC'] its a little easier than I was expecting, yet in still complicated ways.
 
@CC -- your version: it is possible for James to go to Houston while keeping Harden, Capela, and CP3.
 
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The first thing is that if Lebron were to S&T to the Rockets, they would be hard capped at ~$127M. Just the four of them (Capela, Harden, Paul, and James) would combine to $126.3M... so it is not possible to S&T to the Rockets. But like CP3 did to go from the Clippers to the Rockets, Lebron can opt in to his final year and then be traded to Houston (Rockets just can't use an MLE)
 
Now in regards to a trade for Lebron, salaries matching are the next hurdle. He would make $35.6M next season for Houston, which means the Rockets have to send to Cleveland between $28.4-$44.4M. The main players available to move would be Ryan Anderson ($20.4M), Eric Gordon ($13.5M), PJ Tucker ($7.9M), and Nene ($3.6M). Obviously the Rockets would prefer for it to just be Anderson+Tucker+Zhou Qi's non-guaranteed (plus future picks of course), but I'd assume that Cleveland doesn't want Anderson, and that they do want Gordon.
 
The hardest part of Lebron to the Rockets is the Cavs (or another team) willing to take Anderson's deal (good to stretch in 2019-20)

 

[Pugz]

when does ryan expire? they might just want to take contracts to rebuild quick

 

[Pugz]

and in the nba, it seems like teams dont mind helping out other teams(though this situation may be a little different), and they let houston keep eg

 

[bosoxlover12]

when does ryan expire? they might just want to take contracts to rebuild quick

 
$20,421,546 in 2018-19, $21,264,637 in 2019-20, and is then a FA. It's a good contract to stretch in '19-20, where it becomes just ~$7M over the next 3 years, but its not an ideal contract to have

 

[Pugz]

 
$20,421,546 in 2018-19, $21,264,637 in 2019-20, and is then a FA. It's a good contract to stretch in '19-20, where it becomes just ~$7M over the next 3 years, but its not an ideal contract to have

yea thatd be tough, and its clear no team in the league wants him right now at that price too

 

[Hurricane Season]

It just feels like Cleveland is a lock to win tonight.

 

[Mexi]

The Golden State Broke Boyz

 

[Mexi]

Fuck Draymond lmao

 

[BNC]

Okay [member='BNC'] its a little easier than I was expecting, yet in still complicated ways.
 
@CC -- your version: it is possible for James to go to Houston while keeping Harden, Capela, and CP3.
 
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The first thing is that if Lebron were to S&T to the Rockets, they would be hard capped at ~$127M. Just the four of them (Capela, Harden, Paul, and James) would combine to $126.3M... so it is not possible to S&T to the Rockets. But like CP3 did to go from the Clippers to the Rockets, Lebron can opt in to his final year and then be traded to Houston (Rockets just can't use an MLE)
 
Now in regards to a trade for Lebron, salaries matching are the next hurdle. He would make $35.6M next season for Houston, which means the Rockets have to send to Cleveland between $28.4-$44.4M. The main players available to move would be Ryan Anderson ($20.4M), Eric Gordon ($13.5M), PJ Tucker ($7.9M), and Nene ($3.6M). Obviously the Rockets would prefer for it to just be Anderson+Tucker+Zhou Qi's non-guaranteed (plus future picks of course), but I'd assume that Cleveland doesn't want Anderson, and that they do want Gordon.
 
The hardest part of Lebron to the Rockets is the Cavs (or another team) willing to take Anderson's deal (good to stretch in 2019-20)

Ok cool thanks, so what kind of salary are you assuming for Capela? And what do their books look like if LeBron opts in and they're able to keep EG? How much would they have committed and are they still able to use the vet min?

 

[Paulius]

Only the goat since 2012 would jump on a 65 win team with 2 other stars

Surprise surprise

 

[Mexi]

JVG is right

When breen says Draymond needs to be careful after his tech jvg goes "no he doesn't. They won't throw him out til late anyways"

 

[BNC]

With that jumper Hood has already been a better contributor than Clarkson in this series

 

[bosoxlover12]

Ok cool thanks, so what kind of salary are you assuming for Capela? And what do their books look like if LeBron opts in and they're able to keep EG? How much would they have committed and are they still able to use the vet min?

Capela will sign a $25,250,000 deal over four years. He's an RFA so there will be some team that maxes him.
 
So say the Cavs take Ryno-Tucker-Qi-picks, this is what their books would be:
 

 
They can sign minimums to veterans, just no MLE. But that also brings up that tax number, which is at an already ridiculous $82.4M, and that's as a non-repeater too

 

[BNC]

Capela will sign a $25,250,000 deal over four years. He's an RFA so there will be some team that maxes him.
 
So say the Cavs take Ryno-Tucker-Qi-picks, this is what their books would be:
 

 
They can sign minimums to veterans, just no MLE. But that also brings up that tax number, which is at an already ridiculous $82.4M, and that's as a non-repeater too

And this doesn't press them against the hard cap? I'm assuming this only works if they sign Clint and CP3 after acquiring LeBron, yes?

 

[BNC]

Hood is 1000x better than Clarkson

 

[bosoxlover12]

And this doesn't press them against the hard cap? I'm assuming this only works if they sign Clint and CP3 after acquiring LeBron, yes?

correct

you cant go over the hard cap to trade for a guy but you can to sign them. CP3 has his cap hold so hes fine. Its Capela, and thats why I said timing matters. Capela has a $7M hold and once he signs its $25M

 

[Paulius]

They told me steph better than Kawhi tho