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Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky

You give Dirk 12mill, Marion 7mill, you are sitting at around 54mill. That gives us about 9 mill in cap space, meaning that we may not even be able to sign Monroe to what he might get.

Now let's pretend we let Marion walk and give Dirk 10mill/year (like Duncan got). Then we have a trim roster and roughly 18 mill to work with. If we give Monroe the max, he gets 15.8mill and we have about 2.2mill to fill out the rest of the roster, including signing Harris. If harris gets 2.2m a year, then that is all of our cap space and we only have draftees and min guys.

Monroe/Dalembert
Dirk/Wright
Ellington
Ellis
Harris/Calderon
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Ledo, Larkin, Mekel, 34th pick, 51st pick

That's a thin team right there, because we overpaid for Monroe.

That's why we can't pay that much for a guy who is just solid.

Uh... Marion will not be getting anywhere close to 7 million.