What about Bogut?
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Bogut at 13 mil would greatly reduce chances of signing a legt SF. unless we amnesty salmons.. still wouldn't be enough to sign iggy or AK. Unless GS wants to do some sort of threeway where we ship off a contract or 2 of our own. Bogut for hayes and jimmer and they go elsewhere would free up another 7 mil or so. thats it amnesty salmons do a 3way of some sort with GS for Bogut leaving us about 14 mil under the cap sign Iggy.
Vasquez/IT/mccallum
Maclemore/Thornton
Iggy/Outlaw
Bogut/jt/ppat
Cousins/JT
sign some project rookie SF from summer league for backup.
Vasquez/IT/mccallum
Maclemore/Thornton
Iggy/Outlaw
Bogut/jt/ppat
Cousins/JT
sign some project rookie SF from summer league for backup.
2nd thought. Id tell GS look if you really want Howard Bogut and his 13 mil has to go. We will only do it if we get Barnes. for that we would do it without giving anything back. we would have to amnesty salmons to do it though unless like a said another team takes Hayes + small filler. just hayes or just jimmer might work.
Right now GS wants their cake and eat it to. They want to get rid of Bogut and get nothing in return but don't want to give up on of the other top 3 they have. I say they have to give up 1. maybe Vivek and Malone have some pull and could make it happen across the bay. How many of us would be happy with a -Tyreke +Bogut, Vasquez, Barnes offseason?
I wonder a lot about Barnes.
Is he the invisible inconsistent medicority of the regular season? Or is the impact guy of the playoffs? Kind of an important question if you are thinking of picking him up, because he could easily make it 6 years in a row without a competent SF if he's the .439 shooting 9ppg scorer.
Is he the invisible inconsistent medicority of the regular season? Or is the impact guy of the playoffs? Kind of an important question if you are thinking of picking him up, because he could easily make it 6 years in a row without a competent SF if he's the .439 shooting 9ppg scorer.
I'd love Bogut on the Kings. for all those clamouring about an infusion of basketball IQ, he's the guy you're looking for, whilst also being a darn good defender. yeah, he comes with question marks concerning his health, but so what? it's a one year commitment and it's not as if GS would want anything for him in return. absorb that salary, let him teach boogie defense and if he can't play, let him go next offseason, I don't see much downside (then again, I don't really care for any of the high-priced SFs that could be gotten with our new salary flexibility).
Given that Bogut has played in 32 and 12 games the last two seasons, and last year got paid $13mil for 5.8pts 7.7reb...yeah. I'd say there are just a few health concerns. 
Now that we have let Tyreke go, blow it up and rebuild around Cousins and maybe Mclemore (depends on what he shows) and preserve cap space for next season. Hopefully strike it big in the draft, sign a couple of very good free agents with the cap space and off we go! As of right now, we on the hook for about $24 million next year. Re-sign Cousins and that is around $40 million which would give us about $20 million to play with. Move some of our bad contract for expirings and picks and we could turn in around as early as the season after next!
The Sacramento Kings can't though. That's a big market strategy, but it fails for the Kings because after blowing it up, having another stinky season, which might very well endanger Cousins mindset as his power agent takes him into free agency, Sacramento is just not going to be able to sign very good free agents. And if you did get one, you would have to overpay him so severely people would be wishing they had Reke at $11mil.
There is a strike while the iron and fan interest is hot element to this too. They are off to a ****ty start with that, but the premise stands. Vivek and co aren't working on blank slate. They are working off of 7 straight years of losing, and as much as they are the new organization, they are the old, and they have the old fans. All those people signing up for season tickets aren't going to want to sit through another year of crap.
There is a strike while the iron and fan interest is hot element to this too. They are off to a ****ty start with that, but the premise stands. Vivek and co aren't working on blank slate. They are working off of 7 straight years of losing, and as much as they are the new organization, they are the old, and they have the old fans. All those people signing up for season tickets aren't going to want to sit through another year of crap.