What strikes me about this post is that we have to do A LOT, and still won’t get the room needed for Beal. Just seems like a bridge too far. And no, he won’t take a penny less than what he can.
Agreed
At the moment the Celtics still have total control to open space.
They can stretch AL and renounce all their players and stash the 1st round pick if they want.
$119M cap - (JT $30,351,780.00 + JB $28,741,071.00 + AL's stretch $3,785,714.29 + DJ's dead cap $92,857.00 + 9x roster holds at $953,000.00 ea) =$112.25M
That leaves around $7M margin.
Before we get to next year we need to deal with the rookie options.
RL $5,634,257.00
GW $4,306,281.00
AN $3,804,360.00
PP $2,239,200.00
CE $1,930,681.00
Once exercised the money is guaranteed next year. If the Celts exceed the margin the they will have to move some of these players to make room for the max.
Then there's RWIII at the end of the season they can extent the QO at $5,430,710, but that comes with a cap hold of $10,985,927, which doesn't allow for a max even if we did move all the rookie contracts with no money coming back,
Then there's the draft pick holds, our 1st at 17ish would be $2.6M ish.
If the purpose is to maintain a "credible threat" if a star wants to sign here, I guess we are borderline doing so. But the necessary machinations are crazy.
Remember when we signed Hayward...
We needed to renounce everyone we could
We needed to trade Avery for Morris
We needed to trade down from 1 to 3
And we still had to stretch Demetrius Jackson
I seriously hope Tatum and Beal have this worked out and Beal forces a trade.
Then we have Bird rights on the remaining players and can use every over the cap trick to bolster the rest of the roster.