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Originally Posted by Underdog
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Yeah, so even assuming a best case scenario where the cap stays the same next season at $58.6 mil, that would only leave enough room to offer a contract starting out at $13.6 mil. Lebron is currently making $15.8 million this season, meaning he would have to take a pay cut (not happening).
If the cap does indeed drop, let's day 5 mil, the only way we could sign Lebron straight up would be for Dirk to take a severe pay cut in the prime of his career, about $10 mil approximately. I don't see that happening either.
Which brings us back to the S&T.
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I was just checking salary info and it looks like that $70 mil figure that the reporter used is off. She may have used the salary figure off of Hoopshype which lists it at $70 but that means $70 mil only in committed salary, not team option player salary. They don't have Damp listed as a team option even though he will be but that figure is already deducting Howard's and Barea's expiring contracts meaning we would only have Damp's contract left to cut from that number at 13 mil and would bring us down to around 57 which will most likely still be over the cap. There's absolutely no way we can sign a max level player, even if Dirk took a $10 mil pay cut the most we could offer would be around $6-8 mil. Our only option is S&T.
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