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Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985
Even after another year, who in the East is that much better? Rondo is a monster, PP is still really good, same with Ray. The bench just plays hard, Nate and Big Baby are great role players.
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I know that this will be news to you but they have this little thing called the salary cap...
Robingson is a FA, Allen is a FA, Tony Allen is a FA. They were already 27 million + the luxury tax over the cap. The only guys that they have coming off the cap are those 3 plus Scalabrine (-3 million), Daniels (-2 million), Williams (900k), Finley (300k) and 2 guys you never heard of (1.4)
Allen is going to look for a three year deal for around 30 million. You want to be paying him 10 million a year when he is 38? Pierce makes 21 million next year and then is a FA. He is in decline. KG makes 40 million over the next 2 years. Wallace makes 15 million over the same period. The only guy signed to a positive contract is Rondo. They caught a huge break signing him to a long term, now looking undervalued deal. Perkins has another year then he is going to be a 8-10 million dollar a year player.
So if you sign Allen what do you do after next year?