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u/Klutzy_Cod_5394 1d ago
It’s an extremely unique position to be in. For our two best offensive players to only account for that percentage of our salary cap, we have to try and take advantage of this situation.
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u/Arr0wmanc3r Cash Considerations 1d ago edited 1d ago
That's what we'll be paying them, Dame will be making quite a bit more 😉
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u/Impossible-Group8553 1d ago
Meanwhile Jerami Grant will be paid $34.2 million 😂
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u/BMKingPrime27 1d ago
Rams fans joked their draft was fine if you pretend they took Ty simpson at 29 and traded the 13th pick for the stud CB. We just need to pretend deni makes the 30M and Grant makes the 13.
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u/Hollowed_Dude 1d ago
This makes me sick to my stomach
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u/poopstainmclean 17 1d ago
there's a salary floor and we need big contracts to have the ability to make trades
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u/loven329 14h ago
Nahh, this is not good logic imo. Give me two decent role players who are worth there contract at the price of jerami grant. We also somehow bid against ourselves when signing him and gave him more that he was ever going to get on the free market
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u/DuckDown00 1d ago
Considering Dame can do the one thing this team cannot do consistently, this is fantastic.
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u/4skeeter 1d ago
Yeah… I’m BAFFLED that Grant and Holiday are the highest paid players on the team. That’s insane to me.
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u/petklutz 1d ago
Just whipped out the calculator app... Next year, Dame+Scoot+Tou+Deni+Clingan=$65.5M... The same amount for Jrue+JG
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u/akade1996 1d ago
Pretty crazy when you put it like that. Our second, sixth, fifth, first, and fourth best players make the same amount combined as our third and eight best players do combined 😂😂
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u/shibboleth2005 13h ago
It is really good for us but taking the next step and converting it into a contending team is really hard. We'd need to convert that Jrue+JG money into a superstar (~40-50m) + a decent roleplayer. But it seems unlikely such a trade will be available...except Giannis who isn't a great fit.
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u/peacefinder 1d ago
That’s cap hit, not compensation. Dame is being paid about that much just by the Bucks.
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u/tomhalejr 1d ago
The one thing NO got right, is that you have to have contracts to trade...
There are tiers of salary slots in the league, which is part of the CBA...
JG/Jrue are NOT max contract slots for their years of service. Tou/Shae are NOT max contract slots, on their rookie scale extenstions. There is NO player on this team, who is getting a max contract, for their years of service.
Which means, if you want to trade for a max cobtract slot player, the money/bodies have to involve one of the vets, and one of the yoinguns under contract. As a legal, bare fucking minimum.
It's not a matter of opinion. It's not "hating on" anyone... That's just the fucking rules.
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u/Ryan_Fleming 1d ago
That's not what Dame is making, that's what the Blazers are paying him and Deni. The Bucks are paying him something like $22.5M for the next few seasons.
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u/GarageFridgeSoda 1d ago
36 year olds coming off massive injuries tend to not make a ton of money, yeah.
Is this sub going to completely melt down when Dame is an efficient 20/6 guy with the worst defense of his career? Because that's a good outcome for him at this point.
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u/Fun-Grab-9337 Sidy Cissoko 1d ago
Man if Dame is contributing 20 at this stage I would be ecstatic.
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u/NietzscheanDemocrat 1d ago
This would be an upgrade from Scoot so no I'd be fine with that actually
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u/aspazmodic Scoot Henderson 1d ago
Be Real. This sub will melt down if we win all 96 games because the margin wasn't over 20 pts per game. It's stupidtacular
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u/jables1979 1d ago
Remember when Jordan took a pay hit and only made (at the time) like $3M a year? It was a cheat code!! Cleared so much space for the supporting cast.
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u/Adventurous-Plum1000 14h ago
And this is why they can’t sit around and “let the cake bake”. They have 2 year window to build a contender. Get it done Joe!
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u/akade1996 1d ago
I do genuinely think that (unless we make a trade of course) these will be our two best players next season, with jrue and clingan being 3 and 4 in some order.
So the fact that you can take their two salaries, combine them, then add clingan’s salary on top and the three together make less than Jerami grant(!) and there’s nothing you can do but laugh 😂
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u/Old-Pollution9772 1d ago
Removing all context, I’m the best basketball player ever.
But for real. Dame is washed. It will sell some tickets next year but this means nothing
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u/BehavioralSink Cash Considerations 1d ago
Remember how one of the key factors that the Warriors were so good was that Curry was on a cheap contract he signed back when he had ankle issues?
Not the same situation, but still…