[NBA Recap] Washington Wizards post trade deadline salary cap
cool visualization. hammers in that having even two players on max contracts really squeezes the cap. three would be untenable
What the hell is OKC gonna do then with all these young, homegrown players that won them a chip?
Hope they choose right
Trade for more picks and then restart the cycle
Keep their big three most likely. They need all their draft capital to fill out the roster with cheap contracts.
But that implies that they either only select rookies that are ready to impact immediately (potentially lower ceiling), or they allow themselves the space to churn development while being competitive. Their assets are a great problem to have, but it’ll be interesting to see how they utilize it.
Honestly don’t think JDub and Chet have shown themselves to be durable or irreplaceable enough to be max contract guys. Jdub would have a better case, but their record without him is honestly ridiculous.
Cut them
magic
It helps that Jalen and Chet are only 25% of the cap max players. Trae/AD are 30⁄35% max players and its a lot harder to fit 3 of those together.
They will inevitably lose really great talent and they hope to pick the right dudes to develop and replace it with. Not impossible with the asset haul they have, but even then they might break during the process.
They are keeping sga and chet and then dumping williams. They are probably going to keep some young guys so caruso and dort will probably on the table.
They will pay and keep some until they start losing before the conference finals. The year they star losing, some will be traded, some will not be brought back.
As long as they win there is no reason to pinch quarters. Then again, Joe Lacob did try to float the idea of not giving a max extension to Steph Curry because they had Durant.
In his head, now that Curry had elite level help, both were too much for their shares of winning the chip. Lucky this was killed up before they sat with Curry.
Hope Presti can continue to nail draft picks and find gems in the trash, but with a backbone of SGA, JDub, and Chet all in or entering their best competitive years. Every player is currently signed to a team friendly contract or a max extension, and we hold the Bird’s Rights for all of them.
Presti can also probably get at least one FRP for anyone on the roster, except maybe Kenny (age), Topic, and Sorber. Even Dort, who is probably the most likely to be traded, is probably worth 2 FRPs.
Do people not remember that they had Westbrook Harden and Durant?
They’ve been through this before.
Yeah and I would imagine they wanna try a different strat this time lol
Not the best example to make it work lol
Wonder what happened with that Harden guy. I assume he had a long career in OKC
OKC has certainly outperformed harden. He reached what 2 West coast finals?
OKC has certainly outperformed harden
Yeah man nearly 15 years later lol. Not sure you can claim causation there
And immediately after. Basically his whole career.
A rockets fan should know this.
Idk man if Houston doesn’t run up against the warriors buzzsaw they prob get at least one ring. Or if chris Paul’s hammy would have held up, they prob have one regardless. Feels like you’re ignoring a lot of circumstances.
OKC post trade: 2 MVP awards, 2 WCF appearances
Houston with Harden: 1 MVP award, 2 WCF appearances
What even is the argument here? OKC didn’t make it back to the finals after dismantling their young core. The same concern exists if they break up their new core.
That was different because there was no apron at the time, it was just a matter of if you were willing to pay more because of the luxury tax and they didn’t. I think people still don’t understand how different aprons have made the league. When it was just salary cap and luxury tax, it was the definition of a soft cap. The only thing it affected was outright free agent signings, which doesn’t matter much because team just do sign and trades to get around (like the Big 3 Heat did). The cap didn’t matter for resigning your own players or trades. Essentially, if you’re willing to pay the money, there was no cap. Aprons have changed that because there are actual penalties that kneecap a team’s flexibility in roster construction.
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Beal to Trae without giving up picks for the final trade is diabolical
McCollum and Middleton for Trae and AD is pretty nutty too. ANd they didnt give up too many picks with that
Neither Trae or AD are worth their salary in any conceivable way.
The Wizards young core is not up for extension until these salaries are off the books so it doesn’t really matter. The only downside to team building is the opportunity cost of free agency this summer, in what is a very weak class (some sold RFA, but they would have to overpay to get them in the first place).
Yep. And if we didn’t clear out some 2nds (and shitty 1sts) we were literally going to be cutting draft picks. That consolidation was necessary as well.
Which is obviously why we were able to do the deals without costing a whole lot. We’re the perfect fit to overpay them, and I still fully believe Trae will sign a team friendly extension that completely justifies that grab either over the summer or following season.
And AD might end up a waste based on his injury history. He might also be healthy and impactful enough when he’s an expiring where we turn that into something legit a la Garland/Harden. Worst case, doesn’t hurt a lot. Best case, we gain valuable assets we couldn’t have otherwise.
Players get paid for what they’ve done. Not what they’re going to do. Sad reality
The point is that they’ve improved their contracts from having two of the worst in the league to having decent ones that aren’t negative value without giving up good picks and building a young core.
I’m not debating that, more a comment on the outrageous contracts that AD and Trae have. AD is worth every penny of his WHEN he’s playing, but that is a pretty big when. Trae has never been remotely worth that
Great visual, my dumb brain needs this to understand caps
These visualizations are great I stop and listen almost every time. Good content from underdog
i like this media
I like this visualization, are there more?!?!
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There are two really key words at the very end of this video. And those two words say it all.
“If healthy,”
Day-to-Davis is never going be healthy for a full season! Who are we kidding?
No one is kidding anyone. Everyone knows the history. Just like they also know the impact he has on the court when he is. Let’s see what happens.
Good luck. I’ll be rooting for him. It’d be nice to see what AD is capable of in a full, healthy season. It could be a good pairing with Trae. So we’ll see!
We are at least one of the best positions for him to actually prioritize getting healthy, and we can rest him during the season to keep him that way. He hasn’t been in a situation like that in a decade. Yes, we need him at 100% to compete, but being honest expectations for the wiz next year are around 8-10 at best. Anything north of that is truly exceptional. Anything south of that is probably expected by the average NBA fan and disappointing for us.
He could still get hurt his first game back and we’d all go… Yea… That tracks.
It’s almost like some of these players cost too much for what the bring to the team.
Seems pretty insane to pay into the tax when you’re a lottery team with no fans
I wish he showed the picks involved in all those trades and what their draft capital situation looks right now. From this video it looks that they were somehow able to convert that shitty Beal contract into Trae (which I would say is as good as you can hope for), but who knows how much they gave up for that to happen.
They showed all the main picks involved when they showed the 2 firsts being shipped for AD. That was it aside from a bunch of seconds we got back
We essentially were. It was years of flipping smaller contracts and 2nds (sometimes coming back) and basically always having a bad money contract on the books that were increasingly more advantages (less years or plain expiring).
The somehow you’re missing is just the years it took to get there.
They did lol, the Wizards just didn’t have to give up much. The only picks they gave up were in the AD trade and those were terrible picks anywayZ
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The creator is NBA Recap which we credited in the title of the post
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Poor Trae probably went to wizards to coast and now if AD can stay healthy they’ll likely be a play off team next year.
Well that’s a take
Who the fuck thinks he wants to coast?
Why is everything a video? Ugh
its very useful as a video/visual aid
Thanks for the update on Washington’s salary cap. I’d lost hope I’d ever know their financial situation after this year’s deadline
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Yea! This is interrupting valuable Lakers posts.