JH

Free Thinker/Gamer/ Always questioning the narrative/ Awoke since reading Behold Pale 🐎

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@lexyarnold @kirkycousinss Go look at Rocco and Beringer height

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@Will_d_jones @_JasonLT Still have Rocco and Beringer. Also we have Jaden

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@Sleeper_Hoops @SleeperTWolves @SleeperThunder @TimberWolvesHQ Yes

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@KvngDKN No thanks

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@1keezybaby D-Rose

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@Wolvesmuse Sad thing is he'll never see minutes. Finch dont like playing young talent. Hes gonna just warm the bench. Thats until Finch gets fired.

[Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA]

If the Wolves were able to have a cap space team (maybe Brooklyn or Chicago) absorb Julius Randle's contract next season ($33M), that would open up three interesting roster building tools I want to highlight.

I think this is relevant because the Wolves front office has a history of kind of stringing together transactions -- even over the course of multiple transaction windows (offseason and trade deadline).

The Randle trade would be Randle + draft compensation for say Brooklyn to absorb the contract
- maybe: Randle + No. 28 for a future 2nd
(Adjust compensation as you see fit. Not the point of this exercise. Obviously if this would cost a bunch, they wouldn't do it. Or maybe they'd have to move to using Gobert's salary as the salary moved into another team's cap space.)

Shedding Randle's salary would drop the Wolves well below the *1st* apron (about $52M). And while beneath the 1st apron, the Wolves would open up the ability to three additional roster building tools for spending that $52M... (If Ayo Dosunmu were to sign for $17M, that would be $35M in room below the 1st apron. And need to make sure to get the roster to 14 players.)

1. The non-taxpayer midlevel exception ($15M)
- The "big MLE" is a $15M gift card for teams to spend above the salary cap but below the 1st apron. So if the Wolves were to use this, they would be hard-capped at the 1st apron ($13M below 2nd apron). If a team is over the 1st apron, they only have access to the taxpayer or "mini MLE", which is $6M next season
- Could go out and sign a free agent for up to $15M in starting salary
- Could also use this $15M as a trade exception and trade for a player who makes up to $15M

2. The trade exception generated in the Mike Conley salary dump trade to Chicago ($10.77M)
- A trade exception allows a team to trade for a player without sending back matching salary for up to the amount of the trade exception
- So with access to this trade exception, the Wolves could trade for a player making up to $10.77M
- Using a trade exception also hard caps a team at the 1st apron ($13M below 2nd apron)

3. Making a Randle trade to a team who absorbs his contract into cap space would also create another trade exception (up to $33M)
- The size of that trade exception would be Randle's $33M, minus whatever the Wolves took back in the trade
- Might not need that for spending this summer. But doesn't expire for 365 days.

The downside of working below the 1st apron as opposed to the 2nd apron is it restricts overall spending power by $13M -- because that's the gap between the two aprons.

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@MeatSauce1 And also gave them cap space to sign or take on traded player contracts. Come on @MeatSauce1 you should know better.

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@Landonprice68 Gave the Wolves major cap space. And got them under the 1st apron

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@Wolvesmuse @JonKrawczynski And this is why Ant will leave at some point.

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@esidery @JonKrawczynski Whites not worth it

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@whatsontapnba Fuck no

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@WorkElizab Pinky

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@IowaWXChaser @firestick_411 Getting a slice before I go fishing in the am. Its best breakfast pizza.

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@ErcAtv @EricLDaugh @mattvanswol @yvetteLovell4

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@mattvanswol @EricLDaugh @yvetteLovell4 You can't be that nieve. We all know whose behind the attempts.

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@itsmorganariel Way to use AI to make him look different

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@gregonfire @clerpatriot @CHRISsW0RLD @kay_dub_h @teameffujoe @MAGAVoice @CaliMAGABarbie @CaliMagaPatriot @DC_Draino @ksoklower48 This dude needs to fk off.

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@PolymarketSport Epic

[JH @jhipstyle77]

@PurgeRebellion @WolvesGotNext Because this person didn't watch the fights. Anyone who didn't have paramount +before the fights that I know. Just signed up for the trial. And after the fights they are canceling the subscription. Paying for paramount + is way cheaper then paying for it if was still tied to ppv