One of the options the Nets have in this re-load is to take on players with bad contracts or players with longer term contracts to teams that are looking for cap space or to get under aprons or luxury tax levels. Obviously the Nets would be wanting first round picks to help these teams out.
Here are player salaries in the NBA – https://hoopshype.com/salaries/players/
I don't see many terrible contracts.
Brooklyn already has one of the worst contract in the NBA in Ben Simmons but his $40 million is expiring. Zach LaVine's three years at $136 million would it even be worth trying to take this on especially give LaVine's injury history?
Would you risk taking on LaVine's contract if you could acquire the Bulls pick unprotected? Perhaps the Nets could trade the (two) lowest of their 2025 first rounders to the Bulls if the pick lands in the top 10?
For Brooklyn the chance for another top 10 pick in the 2025 is tempting but would the Bulls even do that? The Spurs hold Chicago's 2025 pick but only if it falls 11-30.
The Bulls ownership always want to be competitive but they're in no-mans land. There have been reports that Chicago really wants to move on from LaVine.
Imagine getting the Bulls unprotected 2025 pick and then being able to flip LaVine down the road for another pick. Win-win.
Is CJ McCollum considered a bad contract? I suppose it depends on whether the Pelicans are trying to extend Brandon Ingram. CJ McCollum has two more seasons left at $63 million.
I imagine Jimmy Butler is gonna be the number one free agent on the market next summer. If Miami doesn't want to pay him then he'll be looking for a new team.
Could the Nets help the Lakers clear cap space by trading them Bojan Bogdanovic and Dennis Schroeder (or Ben Simmons) to help LA open up cap space for Jimmy Butler to join LeBron and AD? The Nets of course receive picks from the Lakers.
Anyone got any suggestions of how the Nets can take on some bad contracts and who they might be? Or do we think that the Nets might only want to be bad this 2024/25 season and try and be competitive the year after and would refuse taking on much longer salary?
In addition Detroit is the competition as dumping ground for bad salaries for picks.
by addictivesign
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I think Andrew Wiggins would be the contract that you’d probably target
I wouldn’t be opposed to that but I don’t know if the Bulls should do especially after sending out so many picks already.
You’d think getting rid of those bad contracts would be even more valuable in this day of punitive luxury tax. I don’t know that we have the cap space to do something like that though this year but next year we will if they wanted to slow play the rebuild. Some people are reporting they expect to use cap space next year to go after people
It always depends on how good the picks are.
Like, getting the Bulls unprotected ’25 1st to take on Lavine would be amazing, but it’s not happening. The bulls finally appear to be ready to rebuild on some level. Would a lottery protected 1st be worth it to take him on? I don’t think so.