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Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:11 pm
by Cap
Split T wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:01 pm
Well it depends, we have to get to about 35 million. If Ayton signs a max, him and Cam J would be enough outgoing salary to make it doable. 3rd team would probably need cap space though or we’d need to send more out. If Ayton signs for less than the max, we could do it with Payne or Craig…assuming he’s signing for at least 25 million.
Ayton’s BYC, so it doesn’t much matter how much he signs for. He only counts as last year’s salary ($12.6M) or 50% of his new salary, whichever is greater.
Anyway, it doesn’t seem the Nets want him at all, at least not at any salary he’d accept.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:13 pm
by Split T
Cap wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:11 pm
Split T wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:01 pm
Well it depends, we have to get to about 35 million. If Ayton signs a max, him and Cam J would be enough outgoing salary to make it doable. 3rd team would probably need cap space though or we’d need to send more out. If Ayton signs for less than the max, we could do it with Payne or Craig…assuming he’s signing for at least 25 million.
Ayton’s BYC, so it doesn’t much matter how much he signs for. He only counts as last year’s salary ($12.6M) or 50% of his new salary, whichever is greater.
Anyway, it doesn’t seem the Nets want him at all, at least not at any salary he’d accept.
Right, I got confused and did it backwards…he counts for the full salary coming in, but only half going out. So assuming he sings for the max, we’d need to add about 15 million in salary going out. So basically Payne and either Shamet, Saric, or Crowder.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:19 pm
by JeremyG
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:19 pm
by ShelC
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:25 pm
by Drewsprocket
ShelC wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:19 pm
They want Donovan Mitchell. Who else do they want here? Who’s giving up a young star for Ayton?
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:34 pm
by Superbone
We better get Durant! All this action is happening and we haven't been a part of any of it. All we've done so far is lose existing players like McGee and Holiday.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:49 pm
by Drewsprocket
Superbone wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:34 pm
We better get Durant! All this action is happening and we haven't been a part of any of it. All we've done so far is lose existing players like McGee and Holiday.
Boston now has the most talent in the league. Gallo and Brogdan! Wtf?!
They just got way more shooting and better playmaking.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:52 pm
by Superbone
ShelC wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 11:39 am
I think the deal is going to go down in a few days because Flex said to expect fireworks on the 4th.
Three more days of this?!
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:43 pm
by Split T
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:50 pm
by ShelC
So that would leave us with CP, Book, Mikal, KD and CamJ and Bogdanovic as a core. A lot of work to do filling out the rest of the roster. Maybe Biz is re-signed and Divincenzo becomes a reality.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:21 pm
by JeremyG
Gambo says the Suns are willing to trade all 4 first round picks unprotected and all 3 pick swaps.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:24 pm
by Split T
No surprise after that James Jones article…he really has almost no interest in the draft.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:27 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
I don't care at all about pick protections if the Suns can keep Mikal and Cam.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:28 pm
by iLLmatic
Everyone cool going all in and mortgaging our future for KD? We've never won a ring. I think I'd be down for it.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:38 pm
by carey
JeremyG wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:21 pm
Gambo says the Suns are willing to trade all 4 first round picks
unprotected and all 3 pick swaps.
That's 7 years of basically nothing much through the draft unless we hit on a 2nd rounder. I don't know. KD is amazing. That injury scares me. That thing ruptures again and he's done and so are the Suns for a decade.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:39 pm
by JeremyG
carey wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:38 pm
JeremyG wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:21 pm
Gambo says the Suns are willing to trade all 4 first round picks
unprotected and all 3 pick swaps.
That's 7 years of basically nothing much through the draft unless we hit on a 2nd rounder. I don't know. KD is amazing. That injury scares me. That thing ruptures again and he's done and so are the Suns for a decade.
Not if we could keep Ayton, Bridges, and Johnson.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:40 pm
by JeremyG
That sounds like Bridges, Crowder, and picks could be enough.
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:42 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
carey wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:38 pm
JeremyG wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:21 pm
Gambo says the Suns are willing to trade all 4 first round picks
unprotected and all 3 pick swaps.
That's 7 years of basically nothing much through the draft unless we hit on a 2nd rounder. I don't know. KD is amazing. That injury scares me. That thing ruptures again and he's done and so are the Suns for a decade.
People realize the Suns still keep a first round draft pick in these "swaps", right?
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:54 pm
by Split T
Ya most likely we just keep our own. We’re trading away half our picks…James Jones already does that
Re: Is KD coming to the Suns?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 4:08 pm
by Shabazz
The thing with trading all these picks is it becomes very, very hard to improve mid-season and in future offseasons. So we'd better nail this offseason.