Bam

Dybantsa

We won’t have any cap space to sign a big name free agent in 2027 if we still have Tatum, Brown, and White

Theis

Healthy Porzingis

It’s a long way off. Simmons for a big. PP can start!!

Cam Boozer

I’ve always loved Jarrett Allen. Make it happen Brad

Cameron Boozer, he is also projected in top 3 picks at 2026 draft and he is a pf.

I have a feeling that if we go under the luxury tax in 2025 & 2026, we can sign All-stars that need to be offloaded by teams seeking to avoid the repeater’s tax, just like what we just did re: Jrue and kristaps

There is noone, we aren’t aiming for free agency in 27. We won’t have any cap space while we have that core.

We are trying to duck the tax this year and next, which is not the same as being under the cap. In fact it’s quite important we aren’t under the cap because that would mean we have no assets we could improve with in a trade.

What we’ll see next summer is a few reasonable extensions to some players that give them 3 years of guaranteed money at a price that keeps us out the tax but reasonable enough we could use them in a trade. And we’ll be looking for the next KP / Jrue to help out our core.

We’re not going to have cap space to sign free agents for the foreseeable future as long as we maintain that core of Tatum/Brown/White/Pritchard/Hauser. A payroll of those five guys + Scheierman + Gonzalez has us over the cap line for 2027-28. The only way to recoup some cap space is if you start shedding some of those salaries without taking any money back - you COULD clear enough room for a 30% FA max slot if you dumped everyone except Tatum and Brown but that quite literally leaves you with no depth.

We can possibly clear enough room to utilize some midlevel exception money (either the taxpayer or non-taxpayer amount, depending on how much room we can create), but no cap room. The ways we’ll be positioned to acquire talent is going to be via draft, trade, or signing via exception/minimum.

Depends what Brad wants offense defense or both

These are potentially the free agents or player option players for 2027

I don’t know who I would want. I like Portis today but he is 30 and he may be too slow by 2027 so hard to know right now

Rudy Gobert

Nikola Vučević

Jarrett Allen

Bobby Portis (Bucks) — Signed a 3-year extension through 2027–28 that includes a player option in 2027

Chris Boucher

Trey Lyles

Jeremiah Robinson‑Earl free agent prospect by 2027

Jonathan Kuminga

Obi Toppin

Jaylen, Jayson, Derrick, Sam, Payton and Hugo alone is already more than the salary cap. You should not “assume” that core. Someone better at the cap would have to tell me if we would have any exceptions to sign like a $12m guy, but it’s basically that/trade someone/draft them. We aren’t signing anyone with cap space as presently constituted.

The best path forward is probably trading Jaylen for pieces (one of which is a center) + being very bad this year so you can get Cam Boozer (PF - Al if he had perimeter skills as a kid). I don’t know if Brad will do that.

This is what happens when you spend \(150m on 3 guys and the salary cap is \)165m. Supermaxes fuck teams over.

Just with Tatum/Brown/White/Pritchard/Hauser we’ll be over the cap that season.

That leaves either some insane trade using Simons and others to match salary and then include a ton of picks, or guys we can hope to sign for the vet min or MLE.

For centers if you exclude RFAs and guys that’ll probably be retired/out of the league by then, the list basically becomes;

Porzingis, Vucevic, Zach Collins, Mitchell Robinson, TimeLord, and Nick Richards.

We’re either grabbing one of them, pulling off a trade, or finding a center through the draft next year.

Jayson Tatum needs a long term pick & pop partner now that KP and Horford are gone

Funny enough KP might come back for a little less $$ next offseason

Cam Boozer hopefully

People have to realize brown, Tatum and white will take up a huge portion of our cap and this owner is not a spender. I’ll consider it a success if we find a starter level type frontcourt in FA.

I was really high on Miles Turner, perfect substitute for Porzingis. Still hopeful though!

I wouldn’t necessarily put white in with the core going forward. He’s 32 in a couple of days, and given his play-style I wouldn’t be shocked if his ‘prime’ was a bit shorter like Smarts was. We’ve put a ton of miles in him since the trade mid-season 3 years ago, and he’s at his peak value now. If we are trending on missing the playoffs next year (which I don’t think is likely barring another injury) he’d be the first guy that every contender in the league would be banging on our doors for.

I love White, but if the right deals there I think Brad would pull the trigger.

Bam and Sabonis would be fun next to the Jays, and are moves I could see happening - maybe a Jarrett Allen addition

Fuck, you guys understand dick-all about how the CBA works, huh?

They’re not going to have cap space or large enough contracts to trade for big name players once Simons & Niang walk.

Just a TPE then they’re trading core guys…