A ton of the reason for Philly's late season success has been attributed to Reddick, Ilyasova, and Belinelli. If Philly uses all their cap space on Lebron, they aren't going to have the money to bring back the 3 three point shooters on the team that a Lebron-Simmons-Embiid team will need to be a contender. The market should be strong enough for each of those three to get good contracts elsewhere and not be forced to take a vet min contract.
Redick will most likely be gone and that will hurt, but they picked up Belinelli and Ilyasova off of the scrap heap. They were both bought out this year and Philly got them for nothing. You can always get journeymen guys like that, especially when those guys are going to be playing with Simmons and Embiid and getting lots of open shots.
Ilyasova got bought out of an $8.4 million last year to sign for the vet min with Philly. Belinelli got bought out of a $6.4 million last year to sign a vet min deal with Philly.
I seriously doubt that players who have already been valued at between $6.4 million and $8.4 million per year, and then played like they deserved that, are suddenly going to take a couple million as a vet min.
And there is zero chance Reddick returns at the money they will be able to pay him. He is just worth a lot more than just a couple million a year.
If they had played like they deserved it, they wouldn't have been bought out. They would have been traded. I'm sure the Hawks were looking to get anything at all for them but couldn't. That's why they got bought out and then had to sign for the minimum. You acknowledge that, but still don't understand their value. Agreed on Redick though.
I think its you who doesn't understand their value and the situation they were in. Both players played for Atlanta and played well in their roles averaging 11PPG on average to above average shooting. They were making positive contributions to their team. But Atlanta was going to tank hard at the end of the year which meant they were going to sit and not contribute. Atlanta gave them the option to be bought out so they might sign with a playoff team and contribute positively. They will be worth anywhere from the room exception to the taxpayer's MLE to the MLE in the open market. They are not vet min type players
No...Atlanta tried to trade them. They couldn't because they were overpaid. The Hawks were sellers at the deadline and both guys were openly available. That's why they were bought out. This isn't a Richard Sherman situation where the team cuts the players instead of trading them, just so they can pick which team they want and go to a contender. And even though they could have traded them for value, they do it for sentimental reasons. We're talking about Belinelli and Ilyasova here.
And btw you're talking about the room exception, and that's only like $4 Million lol. Even you don't think they're actually worth "good contracts".
Yes, they were on the market but the teams they could trade them to, who would give any value whatsoever were playoff teams over the cap that would have to send salary back. Atlanta didn't want salary back. Knowing this and that Atlanta would buy them out after the trade deadline, those teams just waited for them to be bought out.
Just because a trade wasn't made doesn't mean they didn't have value or were being overpaid. It just means Atlanta couldn't get what they wanted which was no return salary, or expiring salary with draft picks.
Yes, the room exception is only $4.5 million but at a minimum that is still more than a vet min contract by $2 million. 11 PPG players that shoot the 3 at above average rates in today's NBA are not vet min players. Sorry, they just aren't.