2015 under contract
Green 9.445 (player option)
Lee 5.675
Sully 2.269 (team option
Melo 2.249 (team option)
2015 key UFA
Rondo
Bradley
Let's say green picks up his option and plays the final year for 9.45 mil, and the C's pickup Sully's team option .
They let Fab Melo go , and Bradley go ( or keep Bradley for Lee's salary if you can get rid of Lee for an expiting contract
in 2014)
-Give Rondo a max contract for 15 Mil a year
That brings the salary to 32.389 MIL(Green,Lee or Bradley, Sully, Rondo)
2015 NBA Free Agents
Top Guards
Eric Gordon ( player option)
Marcus Thorton UFA
Wess Matthews UFA
Top Bigs
Gasol UFA
Aldridge UFA
Love ( Player option)
Hibbert ( player option)
Lopez UFA
Boozer UFA
Jordan UFA
Chandler UFA
2015 salary cap will be around 60 mil , if not more .
-add Gasol,Aldridge or Love for a max contract
brings the salary to 47.389 mil
You would likely have enough cap room to add Marcus Thorton
Fill out the rest of the roster with vet min contracts and draft picks
PG: Rondo / vet min
SG: Thorton / Lee or Bradley
SF: Green /2013 pick
PF: Sully / 2014 pick
c: Gasol,Aldridge or Love / vet min or fab melo(might have enough cap space to keep him)
So what do you think ? is that a championship caliber starting 5 ?
oh by the way if green ends up opting out of his contract , we likely would have enough cap
space to add 2 max big men and be able to resign Rondo to a max( rondo with love or alrdidge AND Gasol)
Thoughts?