I think Parsons will not be around after this contract ....

[rimrocker]

Originally Posted by mac222b

It may hinge on whether we can lure another "star". Howard, Horford, Whiteside, Conley. Or someone in trade. Though that seems less likely given the cap space most teams will have, less salary dumps.

We should have room for Parsons, Max player X and most likely a point guard(Deron?)and backup Center with full taxpayers MLE and other exceptions.

Powell and Anderson back up 4 and 2/3 spots respectively.

Can we go over the cap to re-sign Powell?

If we are able to sign another max player like Howard along with paying Parsons max then we probably do have the upper hand in keeping Parsons but I'm under the impression we won't have enough for two max deals.
Obviously that will depend who we want to resign as well.
We could be pretty competitive with a Howard/Dirk/Parsons/Matthews/DWill starting/closing core and I'm sure that would motivate Parsons to stay...especially with him being the catalyst.

Just think it will be virtually impossible to sign Howard, Parsons and DWill unless Dirk and one of them take a substantially lower salary.