Ernie Grunfeld=Jesus

by da sleeper on Jun 27, 2009 11:14 PM EDT

So, I’m doing yardwork today and as is the case with menial tasks, I started to day-dream. Well more like “dialogue”. Me and my subconscious were talking to each other about the draft.

Me: “Damn, how did Ernie screw this up the draft?”

My subconscious: “Really, what did he do wrong?”

Me: “Didn’t you hear? He traded the 5th pick for a couple of marginal players. That pick could have been Ricky Rubio, the best point guard prospect in the draft! And to top it off he passed on he passed on Dejuan Blair. He could be a great offensive rebounder. The team needs rebounding!”

My subconscious: “ I think you’re being to negative”

Me: “Huh, are you kidding? This sucks!!”

My subconscious: “Well, didn’t they get a 6’9” 2 guard in Mike Miller in the trade?”

Me: “Yea, so…”

My subconscious: “Well, he averages quite a few rebounds a game. Plus he’ll be a big upgrade over Deshawn Stevenson. And he gives a 4th scoring option”

Me: “Yea that’s true. But what about the prospects, Blair and Rubio?”

My Subconscious: “Well, don’t we already have a first ballot hall-of-famer point guard? So, why draft Rubio? And as for Blair…weren’t you complaining last year that the Wiz needed to play their young bigs more all last year? Well, now here’s McGee and Blatche’s chance.”

Me: “Yea…I guess your right about the picks. But why didn’t Ernie pick up the big free agent. He needed to “swing for the fences!”…why didn’t he get Bosh or Amare? They were there for the taking!”

My Subconscious: “Yea, but wouldn’t we have to give up one of our big 3 to get them? That’s dumb. Did you realize with the new contracts we now have over $25.5 million coming of the books next year?”

Me: “Really? That’s enough a lot of spending cash.”

My Subconscious: “Yea, so now you could bring in any free agent in 2010 that you want. You could even sign them to a max contract. And that’s with the big three.”

Me: “Holy crap! You mean we could sign Bosh straight up next year to a max deal while keeping the big three? Or maybe Amare? Or Nowitski? Or Lebron(blasphemous!!)?

My subconscious: “That’s right”

Me: “That’s friggin awesome!! We’d be a powerhouse for the next 5 years!”

My subconscious: “I know.”

Me: “Ernie Grunfeld’s a genius. Like Einstein…or Jesus”

My Subconsious: “like Jesus…he’s come to save the Wizards.”

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ernie does have a method to his madness

by wizchamp on Jun 28, 2009 12:13 AM EDT reply actions

My Subconscious: "Yea, but wouldn’t we have to give up one of our big 3 to get them? That’s dumb. Did you realize with the new contracts we now have over $25.5 million coming of the books next year?"

Me: "Really? That’s enough a lot of spending cash."

My Subconscious: "Yea, so now you could bring in any free agent in 2010 that you want. You could even sign them to a max contract. And that’s with the big three."

This is false.

You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on Jun 28, 2009 12:22 AM EDT reply actions

yup.

we won’t be under salary cap, just lux tax.

we’ll also have to re-sign haywood, miller, and foye.

by DarrellWalkerFan on Jun 28, 2009 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions

We will be under the cap

About $9mil under the cap (about $11m if we don’t pick up Crittendon’s option). This leaves us with enough room to re-sign Haywood, but not keep Foye or Miller unless we are willing to pay the luxury tax (or one of them takes the MLE).

…… I think ;P

by Manimal Smith on Jun 28, 2009 2:48 AM EDT up reply actions

really?

even still, we’d have to renounce haywood, foye, and miller, and then we’d only have 9 million to throw at a free agent, right?

i wonder how expensive miller will be at age 30? also wonder how much haywood and foye will demand after this year… all unknowns.

we’ll come back to this later on i’m sure, will be interesting to see the numbers.

by DarrellWalkerFan on Jun 28, 2009 3:00 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm no capologist

Just think it leaves us with about $56m committed – but I don’t know about the cap holds of our free agents and how that factors into things. My understanding is that it means we can commit up to ~9m on a real free agent from another team because that’s how much we have under the projected cap for that year ($65m). I think technically we could re-sign all of our guys AND spend $9m on outside help, but then we’d have a huge luxury tax bill.

Please correct me if I am fundamentally misunderstanding part of this.

by Manimal Smith on Jun 28, 2009 3:16 AM EDT up reply actions

Keep in mind that exceptions count against cap

so – if a team has not yet used their MLE, that is counted as part of the salary.

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by Rook6980 on Jun 28, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions

He could be more or less expensive, depending on how we do in the playoffs

I figure that, on the one hand, he could come up big and be able to demand Turkoglu money, or he could just as easily decide he wants to play for a winner and make another deep playoff run, which could mean that we’ll be able to pay him MLE-type money. He seems like a decent guy to re-sign despite his age, too, since he can move to small forward as he slows down, seems to have a high basketball iq, and it’s not like he’s going to forget how to shoot or something. I mean, even in his worst year playing on a team without a lot of firepower, he still had a higher true shooting percentage than anyone on the Wizards.

by pantslessyoda1 on Jun 28, 2009 9:12 AM EDT up reply actions