WOR Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 So, lets just take a look down the rabbit hole that is keeping Horford, Millsap, etc together for the foreseeable future and what that would mean. 2016 Salary Cap $90ish million Hawks 2016 Salary- $58 Million Horfords Cap Hold(needed to keep his bird rights and offer him that 5th year. Ill explain in a minute)-#16.5 million Total Salary going into FA- 74.5 million So what does that mean? We have 15.5 million dollars in free agency. This is the amount we can spend up to the "cap". This is where Horfords cap hold comes into play. After we spend the 15.5 million we can then sign Horford to his max contract and whatever amount he signs to over his cap hold will take us "above the cap" I believe. Scenario 2. Renounce Horfords rights and let him walk leaving us with $32 million in cap space. This would be dumb, IMO, because we have seen what happens when we chase superstars. Scenario 3. SnT Horford to a team that wants him but doesnt have the space. Acquire a bunch of expiring contracts and maybe a solid young guy or 1st round picks(Ala JJ). This would just be a way to push the can down the street for another year. Not a very good option So lets just roll with Scenario 1. We keep Horfords cap hold and have 15.5 to spend with Bazemore and Hinrich being our only FAs. SFs available for around that price(Maybe we move a Korver or Tiagos expiring deal to get more relief) Nicolas Batum Harrison Barnes Jeff Green Luol Deng SGs Eric Gordon Bradley Beal(very unlikely) Gerald Henderson Jared Dudley Evan Fournier Bazemore Big Men Noah Drummond(Highly unlikely) Mozgov Jordan Hill Tyler Zeller Whiteside Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOR Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 So what would that look like..... Big signing(about 15 million. Takes all our cap. 1 MLE type guy as well) Barnes, Batum, Gordon, Whiteside plus an MLE guy like Zeller, Henderson, Dudley, or Mozgov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOR Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 Projected roster(Pick two Blue players) Teague/Schroeder Gordon/Dudley/Henderson/Kyle/THJ Barnes/Batum/Thabo Millsap/Moose Horford/Whiteside/Zeller/Mozgov/Edy Are any of those scenarios enough to get us past Cleveland or GS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOR Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 Now for Trades to help the situation here are some options/ideas. Note it might take more than this(pick wise, etc). But Im going to match player to player for salary puposes. Teague for Aaron Afflalo Teague for JJ Reddick Teague for Oladipo Teague/Filler for Wilson Chandler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOR Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 If we could somehow pull off a roster of Schroeder/Big Ol ? Afflalo/Kyle/THJ Barnes/Thabo Millsap/Jordan Hill/Moose Horford/Tiago(BARF)/Edy Thatd be better. But I still dont think thats enough or anywhere close to it. **** itd be nice to have Bobby Portis instead of Moose... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.11 Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 If there was a way to get Afflalo and Whiteside, I'd jump on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkbigdog35 Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Thanks for the explanation WOR. I would definitely target Afflalo or Barnes. Mozgov would be interesting but I can't see Cleveland letting him walk. Would be nice to see EDY develop but I'm still on the fence in regards to Whiteside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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