Here is a topic that I found on Jazz Reddit.
I found it interesting. A team full of good to very good players that are up to a new contract this year or in the next 2.
Have to monitor how they'll handle the situation cap wise.
Also it's worth noticing that the Jazz might part away with one of their best player (Haywayd, Favors, Hood) unless they decide to be a repeater tax payer for the next 3 years.
"Our players who've been healthy have played great this year. This is nice, but kinda screws us at the same time. Hayward has been great. That means he's getting the max next year. Hill has been massively overperforming his career averages, although maybe his injuries this year might lower his price a tad, he's going to be close to max. Ingles has been great, but that means he's going to get a big pay-raise (Solomon Hill got 12 mil a year...Ingles is probably going to get that much.). And we've got Hood and Favors lined up for cheap for next year, but after that they're gonna get paid big.
Does anyone have any links to or any ideas of possible scenarios for the Jazz and contract extensions/resignings next offseason? I'm sad now. Can we trade Burks for cap space? Are we willing to go over the cap, and if so how much?
Lets say we sign Hill to a 4 yr deal starting at 20 mil and Hayward to a 4 year deal starting at 27 mil. Next year (assuming we don't take team option on Diaw) we'll have 115 mil on the payroll. That puts us way over the cap, and into tax territory. We lose Ingles for sure, and we may possibly have to dump Burks for some cap space to keep us under the tax. It get worse the year after, (18-19), where Hood and Favors have to be paid. Johnson will come off the books but that won't be enough to keep both. One at least will certainly be gone. On the plus side, if Exum continues to be not so great, we may be able to keep him for not much more than the qualifying offer.
I see four possibilities:
1) Trade Hood this year or next year to a team that can resign him for picks.
2) Trade Favors this year or next year to a team for picks and capspace.
3) Don't sign one of Hill or Hayward this offseason. This option seems silly to me.
4) Just let everything play out, dump burks, go slightly over the tax, and then lose one of Hood or Favors in 2 years in free agency. I'm not sure if this is actually a possibility, because I don't know if Miller is willing to even go slightly into the tax.
Really, there's no great options. If option 4 isn't in play, I just don't see the Jazz keeping Favors after this season. He has a ton of trade value (we could easily get two lottery picks and cap space for him). Trading him and lowering our cap can keep us out of the tax as well, where trading Hood doesn't help in that regard. If Miller is willing to pay a little tax, then option 4 may be the best one, as it gives us the strongest team for the next two years. But boy will it be sad after that to lose one of Hood or Favors for nothing."
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