Mainly referring to guys like Hunter, Jefferson, Darrisaw, Bynum, Cousins. I’m not saying we can’t afford all of them but is it really plausible to keep all of them?
Mainly referring to guys like Hunter, Jefferson, Darrisaw, Bynum, Cousins. I’m not saying we can’t afford all of them but is it really plausible to keep all of them?
We can conceivably keep everyone with some contract gymnastics but we would be setting up for an eventual salary cap implosion a few years down the line.
We essentially did this with all the aging defensive stars of Zimmers defense and Cousins contracts to where all we could really do was rely on the draft to fill out a large part of the roster.
Coincidentally, this is the reason why GM’s are very hesitant giving too many players a lot of money because it is really difficult to continually hit in the draft rather than spend money on several serviceable free agents to fill a roster.
A rule of thumb I’ve followed for my own expectations is basically a rule of three:
You can pay top positional dollar to about 3 players on offense and 3 players on defense and have enough cap room to build a solid team as long as your day 1 and 2 draft selections aren’t all busts.
JJ and Is getting paid. We paid Hock top dollar. So by rule of 3 do you want Kirk or Darrisaw? Or you keep both and then you have less on the defensive side which brings its own issues