2025-2026 NBA Season Thread: Wolves Back • Page 40

lol of course. I’m gonna miss him on the team, obviously a great locker room presence but he meant a lot to them on that run to the Finals two years ago. Unfortunate about what was going on with his dad last year that he wasn’t able to get on the court much, but understandable that he wanted to be there for him when he did finally pass.

 

“obviously health dependent” while mentioning those names is hilarious

 

One of the silliest parts of the CBA is that players are incentivized to stay with the team that drafted them bc they can get more money, but those teams take a bigger hit on their cap sheet, thereby making it harder to assemble a quality roster around that homegrown star. Also, teams can still do exactly what the CBA was created to stop, so long as their owners are cool with paying the tax (and suffering the consequences should they invoke repeater status).

A hard cap number that no one is allowed to exceed would make more sense if they're truly trying to facilitate parity.

 

I mean, the CBA is stupid, but it's definitely achieved the goal of parity.

 

Yay

 

absolutely brutal

 

lowest opening win total in 25 years lmao.

 

is he saying this so they can trigger some kind of medical insurance or exemption for him for salary cap reasons? it doesnt seem odd to just get out in front of it and say this but also feels weird when you know hali's attitude would be that he wants to get back out there as soon as possible.

 

This is probably why you eliminate all hope right away before he pushes too hard and re-aggrivates it lol

 

I think you can only get a medical exemption if the player is out at least 18 months

 

if this were the nfl thread five posters would be in a race to quote this with “exempt deez” but i won’t be posting that in here

 

Only real hoops discussed here

 

this would have been a great post and would have gotten many, many likes

 

I imagine no one would actually do it, but like, can a free agent or someone who is bought out not agree to a contract for like 1 year for 2 million bucks? The salary has to start at some number based on six trillion different things due to the CBA?

 

there is a minimum required salary in the nba that is dictated by number of years experience

 

interesting. Podcasts talk about how LeBron could have opted out of his LA contract and “signed wherever he wanted” and people say the same thing about Dame next year which implies they decide how much they could sign for but that doesn’t seem to be the case so idk why that’s mentioned like that when there are minimums and players would need to get moved to make it work

 

well, on that topic, i also must also maintain that

 

Pretty much I think the minimum they’d sign for is the MLE. Like before the trade today people were saying Miami could offer the most to Beal in out of interested teams from the MLE at a little over 12m from the 14m total.

 

Now Im willing to drop $150 on a Paolo jersey. Was waiting for this before I shelled out the cash for the new jersey layout. Don't want another Shaq escapade. Still have PTSD.

 

That’s Rick James

 

VJ is out tonight for the Sixers with a thumb contusion. Past Sixers history tells me it could be career-ending.