Clipper rumors 2015 free#

Period.Īnd we will give him that money, hence, he has all the leverage.ĬP3 and BG ARE max players and DJ doesn't come close to having those types of accolades to demand that type of money. If this theory was realistic, then why didn't Chris Paul or Blake Griffin do the same thing when their contracts were up?ĭJ doesn't care about the few extra dollars he would be saving the Clippers. Players have egos, and players like DJ wants to be known as 'max level players', he doesn't want to be known as 'almost a max player' Doesn't matter if it's $1 more than anyone else can offer. I like the theory, but it's just not realistic.ĭJ won't take anything less than the max from us. Now we have options so if a S&T looks more pleasing to the Clippers' FO, then we can low ball and wait till he says he's going to dallas. We were fracked before knowing we could lose DJ for nothing but not now. and now this one is from the Mavs' sources. So now we have 2 sources linking DJ to Dallas. That is, if he wants to play for a playoff team. Now we can afford to offer slightly less than max and risk losing him knowing one of his best options is going to Dallas. So now if the FO was scared about losing DJ for nothing, we now have an option to not only get another good center, but we can shed salary in the process.

So if we lose DJ to Dallas, we can get a viable center in return for a lot less. We now know that Dallas is willing to work with us in facilitating a S&T. It seems he has about as much leverage as one might hope to ever get. His options are sign with us for max $$ or sign with someone else for max $$. Doc has already said he's gonna offer him a max contract.

Clipper rumors 2015 free#

Last I checked he's one of the biggest free agent's this year and numerous teams have been linked to him. I'm confused as to why you think DJ has lost all leverage. I'm not sure how much you can convince them to make non-guaranteed in the second and third years. Still, this means you're giving Chandler a contract for ages 33, 34 and 35 at the least and then hoping he stays healthy. With a sign and trade the contract must be at least 3 years long, though you can have years after the first year be non-guaranteed. Chandler does not have that same tag to his name. Of course part of DJ's value is being an iron man. Now, those weren't necessarily impossible if DJ was retained though. So Chandler instead could facilitate the ability to do something like sign and trade for some player in exchange for Crawford's non-guaranteed contract or Barnes. The other benefit though is staying out of tax and ability to acquire players in sign and trade due to being further from the apron. With Chandler -> Chandler + MLE + Minimum contracts It would ease the team from taxes and give more flexibiltiy, but wouldn't necessarily cause any drastic changes in the ability to sign better FA's this off-season. So if Chandler was signing for something reasonable like $11 million, then despite being 33 years old when the season would start, it isn't the worst deal for LAC. The Mavs are one of the few teams that have the ability to take DJ in a sign and trade without giving back close to equal amount of contract.