[Shams] Wizards center Richaun Holmes has declined his $12.8 million player option in order to sign a new two-year, $25.9 million deal with the team through 2025-26 season, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Only $250,000 out of $13.3M is guaranteed for 2025-26.
by KingRagerBlade
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Don’t mind the essentially one year deal. He’s a good center to have while we tank and that contract is good to use in trades if needed also.
$12.6m guaranteed this year, $250,000 next year is really savvy. Dawkins is positioning himself to be a helping hand to teams struggling with the salary cap now that everyone’s panicking over the second apron restrictions. $12.6m is a very convenient number to match salary. That’s one Josh Green or Robert Williams III, for example.
Great deal for Washington
This is probably a nothingburger but potentially savvy. Depending on what the date for the guarantee is it basically opens the possibility to trade him after the season to a team trying to get off 12M of salary. No real downside for the team and slightly increases the possibility of using him to take on a bad contract for assets.
A bit off topic but I would do something similar if the team ever needed to reach the salary floor. I never understood why teams should really fear the floor or take on bad long term contracts(without appropriate compensation) just to meet the floor. If you were say 25M below the day before the season started, and couldn’t find anyone good in FA, you could give a guy like Gill a lifetime achievement contract of 1 year 25M or 2/50M with the second year only guaranteed for 250K. Then shop that expiring.
Totally good with this
Love him. Can’t wait for him to average 14 boards a game.
Is this t trade him? So we can take on more money and have that non guaranteed part enter into the equation ?
He’s ass but we just be for Flagg