CP3 and D12 want to play together..Chris Broussard's Sources

[nickagneta]

If they want to play together, gotta think Atlanta is the place that makes the most sense for them.

[Fafnir]

If they want to play together, gotta think Atlanta is the place that makes the most sense for them.

Yeah, too many barriers to the other options.

But we'll see what happens.

[LooseCannon]

Imagine if Pierce's guarantee date was later and CP3/D12 really wanted to play with Josh Smith, so the Hawks would be willing to trade Al Horford in a salary dump for Pierce's contract to create enough cap space to sign all three.

[JSD]

Horford, Howard and Paul would be a scary trio

[lightspeed5]

I am surprised Howard and Paul haven't been linked to Atlanta yet.

To my knowledge (correct me if I am wrong) but the Hawks are the only NBA team with enough cap space to offer 2 max deals.

I think a lineup of Paul, L Williams, Horford, Howard (insert SF) sounds good on paper, at least.

horrid team. weak SG, and D12 is not a power forward.

[j804]

If they want to play together, gotta think Atlanta is the place that makes the most sense for them.

Yeah, too many barriers to the other options.

But we'll see what happens.

they can just easily join up and bolt on their teams right??

[Fafnir]

If they want to play together, gotta think Atlanta is the place that makes the most sense for them.

Yeah, too many barriers to the other options.

But we'll see what happens.

they can just easily join up and bolt on their teams right??

Only to Atlanta, every other option would require some sort of sign and trade to work for one of the two. The other teams can't fit two max contracts for CP3/Howard.

If both take less money then it might open the door a bit wider.

[Moranis]

If they want to play together, gotta think Atlanta is the place that makes the most sense for them.

Yeah, too many barriers to the other options.

But we'll see what happens.

they can just easily join up and bolt on their teams right??

Only to Atlanta, every other option would require some sort of sign and trade to work for one of the two. The other teams can't fit two max contracts for CP3/Howard.

If both take less money then it might open the door a bit wider.

Houston and Dallas only need to move like 1 contract to open up enough room for two max deals.  And there are teams like the Jazz, Cavs, Pistons, etc. that have enough for 1+ and have some valuable trading assets in which they could open up more space (not that the Cavs would be an option since they have Irving, but you see where I am going).

[Moranis]

I haven't checked the numbers but it is a pretty good breakdown of where teams are. http://www.shamsports.com/2013/06/the-amount-of-cap-room-teams-will.html

[Fafnir]

If they want to play together, gotta think Atlanta is the place that makes the most sense for them.

Yeah, too many barriers to the other options.

But we'll see what happens.

they can just easily join up and bolt on their teams right??

Only to Atlanta, every other option would require some sort of sign and trade to work for one of the two. The other teams can't fit two max contracts for CP3/Howard.

If both take less money then it might open the door a bit wider.

Houston and Dallas only need to move like 1 contract to open up enough room for two max deals.  And there are teams like the Jazz, Cavs, Pistons, etc. that have enough for 1+ and have some valuable trading assets in which they could open up more space (not that the Cavs would be an option since they have Irving, but you see where I am going).

Dallas can't get enough room without getting rid of Dirk.

Dirk and 11 empty roster charges is 28,113,361 on the cap. The projected cap is 58.5 million. 30.4 million is a lot of cap space and its still not enough to give both of them max deals.

And that's assuming they can somehow clear every single contract other than Dirk's, they're bound to have some cheaper talent that they keep.

Edit: as for all the teams tha can land one of them and then trade for the other, yes that's an option. But one that has a lot of hurdles for it. The primary one being that the two need to have a credible threat to leave anyways if the Clippers/Lakers don't cooperate.

So Atlanta just by having sufficient space might facilitate it happening somewhere else I guess.

[Moranis]

If they want to play together, gotta think Atlanta is the place that makes the most sense for them.

Yeah, too many barriers to the other options.

But we'll see what happens.

they can just easily join up and bolt on their teams right??

Only to Atlanta, every other option would require some sort of sign and trade to work for one of the two. The other teams can't fit two max contracts for CP3/Howard.

If both take less money then it might open the door a bit wider.

Houston and Dallas only need to move like 1 contract to open up enough room for two max deals.  And there are teams like the Jazz, Cavs, Pistons, etc. that have enough for 1+ and have some valuable trading assets in which they could open up more space (not that the Cavs would be an option since they have Irving, but you see where I am going).

Dallas can't get enough room without getting rid of Dirk.

Dirk and 11 empty roster charges is 28,113,361 on the cap. The projected cap is 58.5 million. 30.4 million is a lot of cap space and its still not enough to give both of them max deals.

And that's assuming they can somehow clear every single contract other than Dirk's, they're bound to have some cheaper talent that they keep.

Edit: as for all the teams tha can land one of them and then trade for the other, yes that's an option. But one that has a lot of hurdles for it. The primary one being that the two need to have a credible threat to leave anyways if the Clippers/Lakers don't cooperate.

So Atlanta just by having sufficient space might facilitate it happening somewhere else I guess.

Yeah, though Atlanta can only get there if they let everyone go and Smith and Teague would be a lot to just let go.

[JSD]

The league needs to do away with max contracts or this will continue to happen. It gives an unfair advantage to destination cities.

[CelticConcourse]

The league needs to do away with max contracts or this will continue to happen. It gives an unfair advantage to destination cities.

Atlanta definitely isn't a destination city.