The Neighborhood Bully

https://www.nba.com/news/offseason-power-rankings-east-2026

https://fadeawayworld.net/nba/milwaukee-bucks/nba-could-investigate-the-bucks-over-gary-trent-jr-s-64-million-contract

https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/did-the-celtics-give-away-jaylen-brown-why-analytics-dont-see-phillys-new-star-as-elite-of-elite-004011270.html The link below lists where all players rank. Click on team to see the Magic individual scores. Franz is in the 98th percentile, Suggs 94, and Bane 85. You'll be extremely disappointed if you look up Paolo. https://xrapm.com/table_pages/xRAPM.html

Too lazy to do the math, but if we trade Goga without taking back salary, and stretch Isaac, how close would we be to having access to the full MLE?

30 if Vuc is guarding him

Starting to look like we got deals on the contracts we're paying Carter/Goga. Marvin Bagley would be a nice replacement for Mo, but I saw he was projected to at least get the TPMLE.

Portland has to be trading at least one guard since they now have Morant, Lillard, Henderson, Holiday, and Sharpe.

He's listed at 6'10" 218 lbs, which is the same as Franz. Wendell is 270, Bam 255, Gafford 265

So all that's left to do is sign JI, Caleb Houston, and Cole Anthony to vet min contracts and Weltman can go on summer vacation.

I'm ready to rip off the bandaid and move on

https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/how-nico-harrison-helped-jalen-brunson-and-the-knicks-win-the-championship-183200468.html The difference in the Knicks paying their starters that much versus us is their starters stayed healthy. I posted this last week showing how the Knicks were blessed with good health this year, only Minnesota was healthier. The link below shows the Magic ranked 19th. The games missed by Franz and Suggs were somewhat offset by the relative good health from the other starters (Bane played every game, WCJ missed 4, and Paolo missed 10). We committed a lot of salary to guys who have a hard time staying healthy (Franz, Suggs, JI), and this season was an outlier for WCJ since he's missed an average of 25 games per year over his career. The Knicks were able to keep their productive bench players in their reserve roles. We had to start 2 of our best bench guys and play rookies, guys picked off the waiver scrap heap, and a guy converted from a 2-way contract. https://www.spotrac.com/nba/injured/_/year/2025/view/summary

Pretty sure the $341 is a typo and should have been $241. If you subtract out the $19M they quoted above the second apron, you get to $222M.

Yeah, when you pay your starters $173M, that leaves just $49M to fill out the other 10 roster spots and stay under the second apron. We really need to trade one of the big contracts for two or three lesser ones to improve depth.

Notable draft picks at 51 since 1989 1998 - Corey Brewer 2003 - Kyle Korver 2017 - Monte Morris The Magic selected at 51 twice before. 2013 - Romero Osby 2015 - Tyler Harvey

sounds like a bargain compared to what we're paying Suggs