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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
So Masai's mission this summer is to find a way to shed Carroll's contract so they can give his salary to Tucker. Tough ask though.
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They've got options though. They've got bird rights on all of Lowry, Patterson, Tucker, and Ibaka. With the salary cap and payrolls going up, Carroll's contract is more-or-less fair value, and some teams will have massive cap space and will end up missing out on their free agent targets, at which point taking Carroll for nothing becomes a reasonable acquisition.
They're going to be a luxury team anyway, so the degree to which they're into the tax matters only for the owners; they could sign the guys they want to keep, and then Masai works in-season to strip salary.