LarsV8

Grats guys!

Honest question, how familiar are you with Sengun?

How would you feel about Trae for Sengun and VanVleet?

Yall gonna slaughter us, so many injuries, don't even think we can field a team.

Houston:)

You have been implying there was a premium to be paid because the contract was toxic in nature. KPJ is absolutely a toxic player, but the contract is just essentially just dead money for the year, not inherently toxic. There was no "assuming of the liability and negative publicity" for OKC that you cited. This just ended up being a small cap deal. I would agree it was toxic if it were long term, as you originally believed, but on an expiring deal, no, I don't think that is accurate. The assets given were just to bridge the gap between cap value of two aggregated contracts. (15.8m for KPJ vs 11.4m for VO/JER). Houston pays for trade exception, to save some cash, and preserve the trade filler they might need for future deals. This is essentially OKC just buying two mediocre seconds for 5m, which is about the going rate for 2nds. That would be like saying that Garuba and TyTy were toxic contracts when we traded them to Atlanta with 2nds. They weren't, it was just a cap deal. Or if we were to say Victor Olidipo's deal is toxic, which we got back in trade. I don't think you would find agreement in those characterizations. Anyway, its just semantics, doesn't really matter.

Yea, as I noted, not really a toxic contract, was easy to swap for basically nothing. Ended up actually saving a decent amount of space this year. Get a peak at Earl, a trade exception and replacement expiring contract for future trades in VO. I speculated they would dangle the Brooklyn first with to try and get back a solid rotation guy, but we are in the time of year where everyone loves their team, so harder to find trades.

The extension was actually quite team friendly. Without the domestic violence, the contract itself would be an asset. My guess is that they were taking a risk and offering the guy a carrot to try and get him right, because he does actually have talent. The domestic violence thing, of course, throws a wrench in all that.

I interpret your bolded as 16.8m for both years.

The post was in response to the suggestion that there was 16m in salary that needed to be eaten NEXT year.

There is no 16.8m next season. Right now Houston's options are 1.) Waive him, and eat his 1m guaranteed next season. 2.) Trade his expiring contract + asset for another impactful player to a team looking to clean up their books. The other team would simply waive him and he would never report. Again Houston doesn't need anyone to "eat" anything.

We don't need anyone to eat him. We can just waive him.

Rockets would be looking for useful players.

Sounds like yall need a JeSean Tate to fit that SF hole.

There is a world where OKC waives some of these players and they end up back in Houston.

Did you guys follow the dropping dimes guy throughout free agency? Not sure if same guy, but he had some stuff.

Boom you called it

We don't have many tradable contracts except KPJ. Unless it gets rolled into the existing Dillon Brooks 5 team mega sign and trade. lol

Is Houston getting Capella

FYI on the Hou / ATL deal, Lopez allegedly committed to us at a certain number, and went and got it, then he went back on his word. Our GM apparently decided to not back out of the ATL deal and tarnish his name. That's the rumor.

Just getting different perspectives. You don't want to get trapped in your own feedback loop.

ahhh too much is happening, I can't process all of this. KJM now traded.

Okay, so things becoming more clear.- FVV third year now a TO - huge win- Speculation is now Tate, Mills and Christopher is whats going to Memphis to get Brooks his money via SnT- Landale is likely Room Exception.This means Rockets still have 20+ million cap space.

Simple answer is this is what you get when the owner puts his son in the front office. We went from a first class organization, to being bought by a bad owner, to to becoming a third rate one.