ESOMKnicks wrote:Although how does the Bird exception work? Does it allow us to sign an expensive FA and then go over the cap in signing Rose? Or do we need to choose between Rose and a new FA?
As is, if we keep Rose we will not likely have more than the MLE left to work with, which is quite high at 8.5M per year.
We can not go out and say sign Hayward or any 20million+ a year and also keep Rose. Rose will get atleast 15$M per year in free agency, in my opinion.
So say we want to keep Rose and do something in free agency, most we could do is use the MLE which is a free agent that is signing for 8.5M a year.