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Our draft picks are going to be the key to this deal as we don’t have much assets that we can move and I personally wouldn’t want break up our budding nucleus. Should Trevor Ariza ( $7.8M) be considered in place of Brewer in the deal? I’d expect that the salary for our first-rounder this season will be on the lower-end - around $1 million - if the Rockets continue their torrid winning pace.Įven if that’s not enough, I’d also dangle the Rockets’ 2018 second-round pick to get the needle moving as well.
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McDaniels ( $3.3M) as well as our 2017 first-round pick to make this deal work.
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Obviously, Corey Brewer would be on the block with his salary of $7.6 million and I’d also include K.J.
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If the Houston Rockets were to pull off such a trade, it’d be strictly a rental with Daryl Morey’s hopes pinned on re-signing him next season. This season, he will earn $13.3 million and has a $14.3 million player option for 2017-18.īecause of the rising cap as I mentioned earlier, it would extremely beneficial for Gay to opt-out in July to see if he can snag a deal that will pay him more under the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement that was just inked recently. Indeed, Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan, Gay's former teammate, currently offers similar scoring production (and similar efficiency questions) at that price level, and he is generally regarded as a bargain rather than an albatross.The advantage to snatching up Gay is that he’s on the second-to-last leg of his three-year, $40 million deal. Critics can harp on Gay's quick trigger, limited range and unquestionable thirst for the long two, but it would be difficult to make the argument that he would be overpaid at less than $10 million a year. A $13.4 million salary in an $85 million salary cap would be roughly equivalent to a $9.9 million salary in the NBA's current $63 million salary cap. Let's say, for example, that Gay's extension starts at around $12.5 million in 2015-16 and increases to $13.4 million in 2016-17 with standard raises. Remember that the league's new media rights revenue is set to jump for the 2016-17 season, meaning the second year of Gay's extension will occupy a relatively smaller portion of the Kings' cap than it will next season. Two obvious silver linings exist: The worst of the salary-cap carnage will be over after this season, and the new terms, on their own, are pretty reasonable. That adds up to $64-plus million over four seasons, and there's a decent chance that Sacramento won't have an All-Star nod or a playoff appearance to show for that sizable investment. Trading for Gay required that the Kings pay him $17.9 million last year, $19.3 million this year and roughly $27 million over the next two seasons. By drastically cutting Gay's average annual value and including an opt-out in 2017, this extension represents a dramatic improvement for Sacramento, but the Rudy Gay Experience is still going to cost the Kings. Gay's opt-in ensured Sacramento would keep one of the league's most inflated contracts on the books for a second season. The Kings were reportedly keen on keeping Gay this summer, when he had the opportunity to opt out of his current contract and an early extension is likely the byproduct of those ongoing talks.