[Jason14h]

You're not saving cap space, you're delaying it. Peter-to-pay-paul type of deal

Nope on a buyout you have paid less real money and less cap over the course of the deal.

Pay your players what they're worth. If they're worth it, you'll win. If they're not, they leave and you retool.

You are paying them what they are worth either way. 24 million. That's the point. It's the same $$ amount, same worth

If they had paid Brouwer more money up front on a shorter deal, they would have been rid of a bad contract, possibly without even buying it out. But in the specific case of Brouwer, you're talking about a guy who was a poor signing the day of, as his analytics were awful. I remember thinking Brouwer at ~3M x 3Y at the time was poor value for the level of player he was, and then we signed him to that albatross.

Yup, but who WOULDN'T they have had the money to sign 4 and 3 years ago? They spent to the cap. So someone wouldn't have been on the team then and the team would have been weaker.

His deal was 4 years and 18million (4.5$ million) If they had signed him to a 3 years 18 million deal (6 million a year) they would have had 1.5 million in cap room less for 3 year, and have opened up 4.5 in the last year.

This means the team is weaker for 3 years in the current term, for the potential to need the cap in the 4th (It's the same TOTAL cap over the life of the deal)

In the longer deal you get the advantages of :
1. The player can still be good
2. You can reduce the total cap hit over life of deal with buyout

There's a reason that Tre, Burke, etc have constantly said "Term is the killer".

because Term is the killer.

Because no player, EVER would sign a longer term deal for the same $$!!! Think about that. Hey do you want a 4 year 6 million deal or a 6 year 4 million deal.... Hmmmm I wonder which they take.

So term is the killer because the total value of the contact goes higher in value as you are paying for more years AND more $$ total,.

But if the total cost of the contract over the life (and that's the argument from the beginning) is the same, you would never want to pay the same over a short term unless you are under the cap for only the specific period of the contract (I guess rebuilding and knowing in 3 years you will now spend to the cap and the player you are signing isn't in your long term plans?)

In that case not sure why you are signing the player at all unless it is to hit the cap floor