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3 minutes ago, Soul Bro said:

Honestly, given the weird Bogdan scenario that played out, I’m surprised the Bucks haven’t come after Evan. Seems that would make sense for both teams.

Not sure I see how that makes sense for us.  They traded their draft picks for Holiday, and they'd probably have to send back Bledsoe's contract to match salaries.

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19 minutes ago, The Neighborhood Bully said:

Not sure I see how that makes sense for us.  They traded their draft picks for Holiday, and they'd probably have to send back Bledsoe's contract to match salaries.

Bledsoe is already gone in the Holiday trade. But yea I don't think the Bucks have the pieces to trade for Fournier. 

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9 minutes ago, CTMagicUK said:

Bledsoe is already gone in the Holiday trade. But yea I don't think the Bucks have the pieces to trade for Fournier. 

Yeah, I was just thinking of a package including Dante but maybe the pieces/numbers don’t work.

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I think people already said this but Rodney hood is currently the most logical free agent to sign. Unless we worried about his injury.

He turned down a 6 million dollar option, maybe he is seeking a place he can get minutes and regain his value back.

 

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2 hours ago, CTMagicUK said:

Ok so the Tax line is $132.6m

As of right now we have about $119.3m committed to 11 guys (9 returning guys + Chuma + Cole). 

We also have a $1.8m cap hold for the qualifying offer on Gary Clark. 

That gives us roughly $11.5m to spend with 4 open roster spots (not counting Clark because he could still leave which would open back up that extra $1.8m)

With that in mind, as things stand, it's going to be very tricky to use the full MLE. Using it would leave us with 2.3m below the tax with 3 open roster spots. Now we could go into the season with 14 guys but that'd still only be 2.3m + the Clark cap hold split between 2 guys. We could theoretically do Gary Clark for up to  $2.5m a season and then still have room for a 1 year vet minimum deal but paying Clark any more than that would mean we'd need an undrafted free agent as the 14th man (if we did this we could pay Clark up to $3.2m ish a season) and we'd only have 14 guys on the roster.

So as it stands, with present roster construction, I'd suggest it's unlikely we do the full MLE (starting at $9.2m in year 1). 

I actually think all this suggests at some point we'll make a trade which uses up some of those roster spots (i.e. we acquire more players than we send out) - seems likely to be Fournier if the reports are to be believed.

Trading Fournier and getting back an extra player without taking on more salary then means we have $11.5m to spend with 3 open roster spots. You could then do the full MLE, Clark at $2.5m and still have just about the 1 year vet minimum left over to get you to a full 15 man roster if my math is correct.

 

 

Remember that the MLE can be split between multiple players - you don't have to give it all to one, or even use all of it. 

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1 minute ago, jmmagicfan said:

Remember that the MLE can be split between multiple players - you don't have to give it all to one, or even use all of it. 

I know. 

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