Dan Gilbert will use all his Quicken money and pay the luxury tax to win championships. He doesn't care about the tax and badly wants to win and win big. He would absolutely pay Love and Thompson max contracts. If Love tells him he will re-sign but doesn't want to play with Thompson, then the Cavs will let Thompson go. Frankly I think they can both get their minutes by playing them together with Thompson at the center. So something like C - Mozgov (25), Thompson (18), Varejao (5) and PF - Love (35), Thompson (13). Play Varejao more when injuries or foul trouble arise. I think that gets everyone their minutes and keeps everyone relatively happy.
I don't think you understand the nature of Thompson's and James' relationship. Thompson has the same agent as James. There have been reports that James is going to make sure that Thompson gets a max deal with the Cavs.
Yeah reports
!! absolutely nothing concrete to suggest lebron is forcing them to pay him the max. Anyway he is a RFA so they will match whatever offer he gets. I do not see a single team in the league offering him a max. I see him settling for 4yrs 44mil
Love has no leverage. Gilbert has no leverage. This James' team, and if he wants Thompson, then Love has to make a decision.
Again just a bunch of speculation insinuating that James is holding the team hostage. If Lebron wants to win like everyone thinks he does, why wouldnt he want Love and TT on his team?
There are 96 minutes for bigs in a game - Love will want at least 32. Thompson will deserve, for his money, at least 32. Mozgov's rim protection is making him valuable for at least 24.
Yup thats how it will be not sure what the problem is
That means you are paying Varajoe 10 million a year for 8 minutes a game. That is terrible cap management. You cannot put 50+ million a year into 4 bigs, and pay Lebron 30 million a year, and pay Irving 20 million a year.
AV is made of glass, in 30s and will prob be washed up a bit by the time his back. He has been a Cavs his whole career and the contract they gave him was more like a thank you for being here kind thing. Dont see how he will **** about playing time. He aint that kind of player
BY the way KI didnt qualify for the super max. He didnt make first team all NBA or start the All star game this yr so his max is the normal 14mill not 20mill
Anyway yes their luxury bill will be high but the cap will go up and Dan G has never had a problem paying tax for a winning team. Esp when he is cashing in with Lebron on his squad. Everything else you saying really doesnt matter