Fat Elephant Cac: New CBA Will Cause Warriors To Choose Durant or Curry; Else Lose Even More Depth

[Osmar]

At what point would/could the warriors acquire the rights?

If he stays with the Warriors for 3 seasons

 

[My neck and my back]

They will all be back and y'all will still be mad

 

[My neck and my back]

Why would Durant take a paycut?

because he wouldn't have signed in the 1st place

 

[MikelArteta]

Lol warriors would let everyone else go before they give up either one

 

[tremonthustler1]

Curry. A nd durantwill take paycuts so this is moot.

Curry takin another paycut? Curry gonna mop at Oracle after games to make ends meet?

 

[Flywin Lannister]

Russ and KD, Embiid, Dubs Cap minutiae, other things


Going into next year, the Warriors have only 5 players who will still be signed, Draymond, Klay, Damien Jones, Kevon Looney, and rookie Patrick McCaw.

• Green: $16.4M
• Klay: $17.8M
• Jones: $1.22M
• Looney $1.19M
• McCaw: $905K

Under the prospective new CBA, 5 things look to take place that will limit GS's ability to resign both Durant and Curry.

1. The 10 year Vet max threshold could be moved back to 8 years resulting in Curry being eligible for 35% of cap with a max contract
2. Because the warriors do not have Durant's bird rights, the Warriors cannot exceed the cap to resign him
3. The mandatory number of players under contract will jump to 15
4. The rookie wage scale is going to increase due to cap jump
5. Minimum salaries are going up to $800-900K

What this means:

The Warriors are currently sitting at $37.55M with their 5 players and they must sign 10 more to fill out their roster. As previously stated, must have at LEAST 35% of the ~100M open cap to resign Durant.
Curry's cap hold can be weaseled down to $19M putting them around $56M.

If they want to keep Iguodala, his cap hold will be $17M putting them up to $73M, already unable to resign Durant at the $35M max. Livingston's cap hold if they want to keep him will be north of $10M putting them at ~$85M. With only these 8 players already putting the Warriors well into the luxury tax, they will also have to add 7 more players some how to hit the new 15 player minimum.



Consequently, they will either have to get Durant to pick up his option, jettison Iguodala, or be willing to lose Curry or Durant.

Nice insight into the business side of things. So it's this year or no year - then again, if a billionaire is willing to invest - who cares about the luxury tax?

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Warriors were up 3-1 and lost

They did?

 

[Take_Note]

Nice insight into the business side of things. So it's this year or no year - then again, if a billionaire is willing to invest - who cares about the luxury tax?

If the Cavs stop them this year....

 

[TheEgyptianConniption]

They would obviously let Iggy and/or Livingston go before Curry or Durant. End of conversation really.

 

[duckbutta]

Or KD and Durant...could just not sign max contracts...and it won't matter...

 

[Jplaya2023]

Curry takin another paycut? Curry gonna mop at Oracle after games to make ends meet?

as much endorsements he has plus he comes from an affluent background, he just wants to win everything else will work itself out

 

[tremonthustler1]

as much endorsements he has plus he comes from an affluent background, he just wants to win everything else will work itself out

again with the endorsements. They get endorsements already.

 

[DonKnock]

You sign Durant first, bring in a bunch of vet minimums who want to play for a contender

Re-sign iggs and Livingston


Then sign curry last since you DO have his bird rights..

Nice insight into the business side of things. So it's this year or no year - then again, if a billionaire is willing to invest - who cares about the luxury tax?

Lol warriors would let everyone else go before they give up either one

Just want to clear this up with what I found.

If they retain Curry and Iguodala, there is no "waiting til Durant is signed", there won't be enough free cap space to sign Durant because they can't use an exception on him.

37. Can a team with cap room sign all the free agents it wants (up to the salary cap) and THEN re-sign its own free agents using the Bird exception?
A team's ability to do this is very limited. The team's free agents continue to be included in team salary. This charge is called the "free agent amount," which is a form of cap hold. There may not be enough money available under the cap to sign another team's free agent, because the team's own free agents are taking up all its cap room.

 

[DonKnock]

Or KD and Durant...could just not sign max contracts...and it won't matter...

Curry would have to take below 19M /yr to reduce what his cap hit can already be maneuvered down to

 

[Alexander The Great]

Curry takin another paycut? Curry gonna mop at Oracle after games to make ends meet?

Curry would be crazy to take a pay cut, he's late 20s, has an injury history, and is SEVERELY underpaid now even by NBA standards. also, the NBAPA doesn't want their stars taking pay cuts anymore