Horford $20 mil
Hayward $32.7 mil
Smart $12.5 mil
Tatum $7.8 mil
Brown $6.5 mil
Yabu $3.1 mil
Baynes $5.4 mil
Semi $1.6 mil
William's $1.9 mil.
14 pick $2.9 mil cap hold
20 pick $2.1 mil cap hold
22 pick $2 mil cap hold
That is the Celtics as currently stands with Horford negotiations and subsequent drop to $20 million. Where exactly is all this cap space you speak of? That right there is $98.5 million in salary and cap holds with a $109 million cap. Your trade for Ntilikina adds $2.7 million more salary leaving a total of less than $7 million in cap space, not $22 million.
Interesting, Basketbll insiders lists the team as having 64.7 mill in guaranteed.
Add 20 for Horford and the 5.5 for Baynes and that is 90.2 mill. so 20 million, less a couple capholds and Frank and you are still at over 17 million available.
Not sure where the difference lies here. (outside of you counting Semi deal, which is not guaranteed)
There is still enough for offering Bryant 9.5 and the rest to Rubio. Might be less chance to nab Rubio though, but the rest of the idea still works. (could aslo look to trade Yabusele and a second for capspace, or just waive him/buy him out to gain an additional 3.7 million)
It's the cap holds for the picks. You are trading one for Frank which adds a slight bit of salary too. It's another $5.5m of the cap space you were opening up. You could draft and stash #14 or #22 to open up more cap space but given the talent on offer there you may want to take a player there.
I think Rubio will go for about $15m, you could open up the cap space like you say and pay just him?
OK, so I actually ran the numbers into a spreadsheet as opposed to doing roundings and adding in my head.
Name 2019-20
Gordon Hayward $32,700,690
Al Horford $20,000,000
Marcus Smart $12,553,571
Jayson Tatum $7,830,000
Aron Baynes $5,453,280
Jaylen Brown $6,534,829
Guerschon Yabusele $3,117,240
Robert Williams $1,937,520
Demetrius Jackson (stretched) $92,857
Pick 14 $2,878,400
Pick 20 $2,149,000
Pick 22 $1,980,700
Guaranteed Total: $97,228,087
Inclusive Total: $132,916,100
Capspace est: $11,771,913
I was tossing the idea about holding onto Roziers Caphold so that team could work out getting the full MLE, but it would involve moving pick and or Yabusele to do it.
So this is what I got as a revision.
Al starting salary 20 mill, over 60 mill 3 year deal.
Pick 22 and Yabusele to Dallas for Jaylen Brunson and pick 37
This is 5,097,940 outgoing and only 1,230,000 coming back for a savings of $3,867,940 bringing the total available capspace to $15,639,853.
That allows team to keep rozier caphold of $4,285,798 and still offer an unmatchable contract to Thomas Bryant of around 10-12 mill starting and then resign Rozier.
Unless I am mistaken, that little work around would allow team to then have FULL MLE (9.7 million) to go after ma bench PF (morris, Young, aminu, Portis, Gibson, Green) and then sign the 2 second round picks (which do not count against cap in regards to capholds)
Now I am no fan of Rozier, but I am a fan of Full MLE and a huge fan of Bryant.
so
Rozier/Brunson/Lecque-51
Brown/Smart/Herro-14
Tatum/Hayward/Johnson-20
Horford/Morris/Samanic - 37
Bryant/Baynes/Williams
Top 5 are all young with Horford to be the vet leader on the court with them.
Second 5 have a good balance of defense and offense and alot of switchability
third 5 are all youth who will spend time in the Gleague and be there to train and eventually move up to the second 5.
Edit
Scratch the rozier part. I listed his QO as his caphold. Rozier screws it all up again. His caphold would reduce space to undet 7 mill. Not good enough for Bryant
So to keep rozier and get bryant would jeed to shed another ~5 mill in salary. (Pick 14 and pick 20), or baynes for no returning salary.
Not impossible as I am sure someone would take on Baynes for a year at the cost of a future first.