TripleThreat wrote:smackeddog wrote:dwiley20 wrote:Kanter and Lee for Melo Works?
They need to drop salary, but if the alternative is just to stretch melo, I wonder if they’d consider :
Lee ($12mil)
Noah ($18.5)
for
Melo ($28mil)
Singler (2yrs at $5mil)
Abrines ($5.4mil).
They can then stretch Noah for less of an annual hit than melo, plus they get a starting sg as Roberson may struggle to recover from his injury. I think if melo still has a trade kicker that makes this legal?
Noah and Lee each have an extra year of contract next year. The aggregate repeater tax bill would INCREASE by over 100 million total (over the already near 100 million tax bill associated with Melo's contract this year) to do this trade for OKC. Melo's salary stretches for 3 seasons, Noah's would for FIVE. OKC could always trade Melo to a team with enough open cap space who would agree to buy out Melo for some assets. The problem then circles around the NTC.
The idea behind this is that they get a 3D SG (roberson won't be what he was) for no extra cap hit, plus they stretch Noah for a lower annual amount (so essentially if the only alternative was to stretch Melo, then they are getting roughly the same annual numbers but getting a free starting SG in the process). Yes it would be 2 yrs longer, but by then Adams contract is off the books as is Roberson and Lee's, so it doesn't necessarily mean a tax hit in those last 2 years. If no one else turns up to take Melo's contract, then I'd hope something like this would be considered.
For us it would be perfect- we lose Noah's awful contract, and Lee. We Buyout Melo and Abrines, and keep Singler as a vet. Although he has a $5mil salary next year it's less than Noah's stretched $7-8mil plus you can stretch that if you need the space (which would give you an extra $3mil per).
Plus Knicks can spin it as doing Melo a favor- the way things ended didn't sit right, allowing him to go to a championship team etc etc.