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“When you’re operating over the cap, you cannot replace the player,” the executive said. “This is how Jeff Green got $9 million. Boston was over the cap and looking at Green as a $6 million player. But they had to decide: Do you pay a $6 million player $9 million or replace him with a guy making the minimum? So you pay the $9 million.”
The bolded quote was from Lloyd's article yesterday and I think describes perfectly the problem we are going to have with TT.
He won't be worth $10-12 million a year (although I could actually see a team paying that) as a back-up, but we are so far into cap oblivion that we can't find another 24 year old big who can replicate his production for the minimum.
He should be getting Andy's money, and Andy should be gone if they had done it correctly.
TT has the team over a barrel now because his agents know that we need him for what he does, and that we can't replace him if we let him walk.
Our choices are probably wildly overpay like we did with Andy or relegate ourselves to being the Heat and filling his spot with another aging vet type every year who wants to chase a ring for cheap.
I disagree wholeheartedly and would welcome taking this to the TT thread...wherever that may be.
Overvaluing TT and what he is capable of doing is what LeBron and his management team wants us to do... I have no interest in doing that, I dont care how well he cleans the toilets in the lockerroom.
If we could get a Dion like haul for him as sellers start selling before the deadline, I say we jump on that now (With Brons ummmm... blessing of course)