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If they moving the #5 pick it is either to move up into the Top 3 or to move down and possibly out of the first round.
I know we're looking at free agency and seem to be totally shitting on the Draft but ...
Would anyone be willing to trade our 3 second picks for #5? It comes with a likely salay slot of more than $3 mil...
You won't Griffin, Rubio or Thabeet but there are some guys in the next 3 or 4 that should be quality starters in the league.
I would certainly do that deal. Where are we going to find PT for 4 rookies anyway? Plus, I have no faith Joe will get good players late in the draft. Sure, we found Memo, but otherwise the late drafting hasn't gotten us anywhere.
I'd rather have one solid player than the 3 sleepers that may or may not ever see the floor here.
Plus you can get a guy like Harden that allows you to move RIP for a big.
i'd love to, but i don't see any team taking that trade. even with the fact that teams might want to get out of round 1.
some team might actually.....you can stash the 2nd round guys....there's no cap hold on them. It's us who wouldn't do it.
Question for the salary cap gurus, this has bothered me for a while:
Say you are a team under the cap, and you sign FAs to bump the payroll to near the cap. Can you buy (trade for) unsigned 1st round picks, sign them and move the payroll over the cap? If you can, do you have MLE to spend after that, given you are now over the cap?
I would presume the cap hold would come with the drafted player and you could not just add him and go over the cap. The MLE is assuredly a no go.
I believe you need to be over the cap by July 1st meaning you couldn't sign a free agent to get over the cap. A cap hold also doesn't equal cap space otherwise a team like Detroit would have the midlevel based on the bird rights they have from Sheed and AI.
I'm pretty sure most GM's wouldn't put themselves in a situation where they are say, $2mil under where they likely would only be able to resign Bird, Early Bird Players and minimum contracts.
If you are under the cap, you don't get the MLE. The MLE is granted like the first day of FA perdiod. You either have it or you don't. It doesn't get granted 5 days in after signing FA's.
You can renounce your cap space and claim the MLE. Teams do this when their cap space is less than the value of the MLE but I don't think there is a rule that says you can only do it if you have less than the MLE in cap space.
If you have more than the MLE in cap space, why would you want to do that? You could sign someone for MLE-type money and just not spend anymore if you wanted.