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Originally Posted by St. Pats
I don't think they even have the flexibility to improve the team. Unless MU can pull a few rabbits out of the hat.
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This summer, they have little to no flexibility, assuming they're intending to keep Lowry. But they've got lots of flexibility for the summer of 2015, when there's a far better FA class. Let's say they resign Lowry, Vasquez, and Patterson, for around $20 million total. Add in DeRozan, Ross, and JV, two first-rounders (this years and next years). If they can get rid of Novak without taking on additional salary, they'll have 8 rotation players under contract for about $40 million, plus roughly $20 million in cap space, enough to be in the market for any FA. From that point onward, they'll need to go into the tax to keep the team together.
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Originally Posted by darklord700
Lowry's excellent play in the playoff might be contract year driven. Good as he was in the playoff, I'm afraid he has peaked. $10M per is a lot of dough for a borderline all star.
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$10 million is a reasonable value for a borderline all-star. A salary of $10 million would put Lowry just inside the top 60, and I'd certainly argue that Lowry is one of the top 60 players in the league. There would be very few non-rookie-contract all-stars making less than him. I believe Millsap, Curry, and DeRozan were the only non-rookie-contract all-stars making less than $11 million this year. Of the 50 players making $11 million or more, only 15 of them were all-stars this year.