why would we even think about trading Brogdon?? He had a great season before he got hurt in the playoffs.
6th man of the year, he was super valuable to us all year.
This new CBA is going to force the current lux tax teams into some tough decisions, the smart move is going to be to act early rather than the panic cap dump down the road.
I guess I need to read more about the new CBA. I had thought that it was Grant who wasn't going to be back because of that. But if we lose Brogdon we better get something good in return, someone that helps the J's now, not in 3 or 4 years.
I'm pretty sure we can retain our entire team other than some garbage players and still stay below the second apron. That becomes even easier if we move Pritchard.
That would depend on exactly what Grant comes in at. Assuming Muscala's option is picked up, Pritchard returns, Kornet is guaranteed and Gallo picks up his option the c's would have 163.1 committed to next year for twelve guys. The second apron is 134% of the salary cap, which next year is 134 that puts the second apron at 17.5 above the tax at 179.5. Assuming they paid Grant no more than about 13 million year one they could maybe fill out spots 14 and 15 and stay under the second apron.
But that's not really the issue. The penalties for the second apron actually don't even really take effect next year anyway. The issue is that in 24-25 with Jaylen's extension the seocnd apron issues start to be a thing. His salary goes from about 31 million this year to somewhere between 43 (30% max) and 50 (35% max). Even with Gallo's 7ish million coming off the books hard to make that work and stay below the 2nd apron if everybody is back, EVEN if Jaylen took less than the 35% max. Even bigger issue in 25-26 when Tatums extension would kick in with a similarly large raise.
The bottom line is for next year you can probably bring everybody back, penalties don't even kick in yet. But after that at least one of the White/Smart/Brogdon/Grant group in the mid teens to low twenty million dollar range of contracts will be gone to get under the second apron in 24-25.
The fear is that if you run it back next year you end up in summer of 24 when a bunch of teams may be trying to dump salary to escape the 2nd apron and have to pay just to dump somebody. Since Brogdon is the most expensive and oldest of that group the argument is it would likely be him traded, even if not for much. In that case I'd expect they KEEP Pritchard and make him the 3rd guard.
But who knows, if Grant gets a huge offer and leaves this is less of an immediate issue.