
Originally Posted by
North Yorker
Not as big of a fan of this deal as others seem to be.
Like Ibaka and the fit, and he makes us better this year obviously, but he doesn't put us over the top as a rental. He'll go back to being OKC Ibaka on offense and he isn't as good defensively as he used to be.
Ownership better be willing to spend well into the luxury tax multiple years in a row to keep this team together, otherwise it makes no sense.
I also seem to be more of a Ross fan than most, and wish a deal could have gotten done with some combo of Carroll/Patt/CoJo/picks/specs not named Powell.
It's not a bad deal, but I'm not just sure the upside is worth giving up the assets.
Projecting next season's roster to see if we can retain the core while staying out of the lux tax.
Lowry ~28M
Ibaka ~28M
DeRozan 27.7M
JV 15.5M
Carroll 14.8M
Joseph 7.6M
Poeltl 2.8M
Bebe 3M
Bruno 2.4M
Delon 1.65M
Siakam 1.25M
Norm+ Van= 2M
Rookie 1.35M
TOTAL= ~136M
Lux tax is projected to be ~122M IIRC.
Basically means you have to dump Carroll or JV for very little to no salary coming back.