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Report: Batum getting his money from Charlotte, doubt he even meets with other teams

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3 hours ago, Panther49er said:

Yeah, wtf is "max money"?! No way Batum is worth as much as the max a superstar player can get such as Curry or LeFlop

"The max" in this case refers to the maximum percentage of the cap that a given contract can take up.

The numbers will be eye opening since this is a new market we aren't used to and it's not likely Nic will live up to the deal, but like we just saw with Josh Norman, it only takes one team to set the market. It says alot that Nic is turning down overtures from a very good team in Toronto and a big market in New York.

The free agent market is so barren this year, outside of KD, you could make the case Nic is the best player available, and with the new TV money coming in, every team has cash to spend. Cho and everyone else knew this was coming, hence why he bought low on Kemba and MKG.

Just to get it out of the way, no, we shouldn't be burning this team down to save money for the first 200 million dollar contract in NBA history next year in Steph Curry. The Suns did this this past offseason to take whatever tiny chance they had at Aldridge and it failed miserably. However, if for some reason Curry was interested, you can bet the front office would do whatever it could to make room.

The priority right now should be keeping this squad together with a few tweaks and trying to establish some year to year consistency.

 

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