Bernardoni (Thread): Thread to drop some thoughts on Celtics trades as we hit the busy period…

5 Comments

1. RLS012 1 year ago

   Would recommend reading the whole thing before commenting

2. Slow_Negotiation_420 1 year ago

   Stopped reading after this dude suggested increasing the role for “fast pp” as an answer to replacing Brogdon in a trade.

   Kill me now if that’s the off-season

3. Ramblinwreck93 1 year ago

   The biggest problem with hand-wringing over giving JB the supermax is his contract will be set the year before the new tv deal. What I mean is, under the supermax, JB will get 35% of the cap, but it’s not 35% adjusted every season. It’s 35% of the cap in the first year of the contract, then max 8% raises. Once the new tv deal kicks in, the cap will go up by [the new cap-smoothing max of 10%](https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/271018/New-NBA-CBA-Includes-Cap-Smoothing-Provision#:~:text=With%20the%20NBA%20set%20to,percentage%20increase%20into%20subsequent%20years.) for who knows how many seasons, I’d guess at least the length of JB’s contract. So you could argue JB will be overpaid in 2024-25, but every season after that, the cap increase of 10% will outpace his salary increase of 8%, meaning over the life of his contract, JB will make closer to a max deal relative to the cap, rather than a supermax.

   I get that making the finances work for 2024-25 won’t be easy, especially if ownership says we can’t cross into the supertax, but we’re talking about having to make hard decisions with good role players like Brogdon and Grant, not our stars.

   EDIT: Bad math on my part. Assuming 10% cap raises over the first 4 seasons of the new tv deal, JB would make 33.3% of the cap over the life of a supermax contract. Still, knowing that we can have confidence that big cap increases will come over the life of JB’s contract make the supermax an easier pill to swallow, for both the Celtics and for any team that might be interested in trading for him in the future.

4. HeroOfSevenEleven 1 year ago

   He’s a finance guy so he gets the complications of the next CBA much more than I do but I feel like moving off brogdon/Pritchard at around a 5M deficit in terms of salary coming back should be enough to match the upper echelon of grant deals and still bring back some compensation for losing the 6th man of the year. That means about 17-21 mil coming back this year (assuming those are the only two guys moved) which gives you some pretty solid options

5. AWalker17 1 year ago

   What does pushing all in on Siakam actually look like? He doesn’t even say.