Re: Game Day: Kings (39-26) @ Suns (37-29), Sat 3/11/23
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:29 pm
The rule is you have to be within 125% + 100,000. Mikal, CamJ and Saric add up to 35,227,889. 125% of that plus 100k is 44,134,861. Durant makes 44,119,845 so it does work. The +100k gets you there. TJ couldn’t be included though so I guess Brooklyn would’ve had to cut someone.Wally_West wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 2:27 pmI could be mistaken but the KD deal doesn’t work without Crowder’s salary, so you couldn’t just Substitute Dario. Dario gets paid 800K less and that 800K was the difference between it working and not working. We needed to meet the 36 million threshold and Mikal + Cam + Dario is just under that so the KD deal doesn’t work financially. You could’ve included Landale or something like that but I think the Nets only had one extra roster space so they wouldn’t be able facilitate that. The pieces Milwaukee used to get Crowder were sent to Indy.Split T wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:25 pmYa I wonder what we had set up for Jae…obviously it was the Bucks trade to get the 5 2nds(think that was even reported), but we weren’t keeping those 2nds. We had some other move(s) lined up. We should’ve made the Jae trade first and said sorry Brooklyn, our best offer is Saric. I can’t imagine they would’ve said no. They just tried to get every last thing from us.
Crowder’s salary was always key to get any KD deal, which is why I believe James Jones was waiting until the deadline to move him just in case KD deal was possible because his salary made any KD deal much easier to get done. There’s was too many hurdles you had to figure out if you weren’t going to include Jae. Which makes me believe the whole “Nets strong armed the suns to include Crowder in the KD deal” to be complete bullshit, coming from a Nets front office that shown to time and time again they’re willing to leak and lie about info to push own their agenda. I think that Windhorst article about how the deal was done was mostly Nets propaganda and James Jones doesn’t give a shit about playing those games so he was completely fine with Nets pushing their narrative.