Updated.
Bad lotto luck saving $ isn't what fans were looking for today, but the 7th pick Y1 salary is ~$1.3M less than 5th pick, $2.2M less than 4th, $3.2M less than 3rd, $4.3M less than 2nd, and $5.6M less than 1st. Notable for a team up right at the tax & aprons.
Jalen Brunson on if he ever felt imposter syndrome:
"The only time is probably my rookie year...playing pickup with the team in Dallas and then obviously watching Luka doing his thing so effortlessly. That was probably the only time and it made me kind of question myself to see how hard I actually I had to work to be in the position that I wanted to be"
The most 1999 thing about the previous NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Spurs might be that the Spurs were playing StarCraft against each other in between games
May 13, 2002: TNT's Craig Sager interviews Kings players after they advanced to the Western Conference Finals with a 114-101 win over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of the WCSF.
Sacramento's Chris Webber and Mike Bibby each scored 23 PTS, and Hedo Türkoğlu added 20 PTS/13 REB.
@SamQuinnCBS Would make a lot of sense for the Kings to go back to well for an OKC surplus pick. Gave them 1-16 of the ‘27 SAS pick to get #24 last year. Something around a lighter protection on the ‘31 MIN pick for #17 seems fair
Updated.
Bad lotto luck saving $ isn't what fans were looking for today, but the 7th pick Y1 salary is ~$1.3M less than 5th pick, $2.2M less than 4th, $3.2M less than 3rd, $4.3M less than 2nd, and $5.6M less than 1st. Notable for a team up right at the tax & aprons.
Reposting with updated Cardwell figures now that some details are out. $150,917 more than the flat $2M I initially included for 26-27, very important considering how much salary is already on the books
Updated with the Hayes contract. SAC will be at the 15-man roster limit if it uses both 2RPs this summer. So, barring a trade/waiver (Hayes is NGTD, DeRozan partial GTD)/signing one of the 2RPs to a 2-way, they will be running this team back + the '26 draft picks.
Ajay Mitchell looks like a future star. The Thunder are paying him peanuts. How exactly did that happen?
I wrote about OKC’s contract strategy, because their approach with Mitchell mirrored their approach with a number of other key players.
https://t.co/0L3HP6ZVJQ
Visualization of the 3 paths in the article. TLDR - exercising the TO forfeited purple (control + value). 6 weeks from yellow (control, less value). If yellow doesn't happen by July, then blue (no control, probably less to no value)
The machine that is OKC rolls on. Identifying the talent obviously comes first, but their process to keep that talent around (on team friendly contracts) is what sets them apart
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