(12-08-2014 05:02 PM)spankadelphia Wrote:  Conley's free agency comes up right after Marc's. They have to plan for that too.

Quote:2015 Free Agents:

Marc Gasol --
Kosta Kufos --
Tayshaun Prince --
Nick Calathes --
Beno Udrih ($2.17M Team Option)
John Luer ($1.03M Team Option)

If we sign Marc to the max @ $21.6M/year, we'll be at approx. $63.80M in salary (10 players). The luxury tax kicks in around $77M. That would give us approx. $13M to spend on 2-4 free agents.

We do have to conserve some of that in order to keep Conley and Lee - both contracts expire in 16-17. I'd expect Conley to jump up to $11-12M per and Lee to be $6-$7M per. That will take up $5-$6M more per year so we really only have about $7M to spend on those 2-4 free agents.

That being said, I'd expect to pick up the options on Udrih and Luer for $3M total. Then try to sign Kufos for $2-$3M per (not sure we can get that done)