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We may not have much room to work with next off-season in terms of money, especially if we use the TPE this off-season. However, there’s an interesting wrinkle we could exploit to add some depth to the team. Because Kornet signed a 3-year deal with us, we could theoretically sign him to an extension now. The raise we can give him is up to the NBA league average salary, which is 9.7mil.
Effectively, Kornet could be used as a 9.7mil TPE if we extend before the off-season. Of course, we also have his Bird Rights, so we could also make him part of a sign and trade, (stipulation being that we can only use half his salary for matching purposes meaning he’d have to make close to 20mil in order to reach that 9.7mil TPE mark).
Unfortunately, with the new rules, I don’t think we’d be able to aggregate salaries with him or take back additional salaries due to 2nd apron issues. However, a 9.7mil TPE could be useful for adding depth to the bench.
We probably have add extra draft assets to compensate the overpiced contract for Kornet if we just sign him to use as a TPE. I’d prefer to save our assets for future flexibility than use it this way.