Center JC Tretter

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(03-16-2022, 05:51 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Restructuring just means you're paying the guy the game amount. I don't want Waynes at $15m in 2022, I don't want Waynes at $10m in 2022. I don't want Waynes. They have the best possible restructure of cutting him and saving $10.8m right there.

The $5m cap hit is going to happen regardless. He already got that money so you can't include that in a restructure. So 3yr/$14-15m deal cap-wise means you're signing up for $19-20m in cap hits for Trae Waynes over the next three years, $17m of it guaranteed so you have no possible out. Why would you possibly throw good money after bad? It was a bad signing. Don't keep throwing money into that pit. Move on.

Wrong, you said yourself if we cut him we lost the 5 million. So remove it from the equation, it is already paid.

I am saying sign him for 3 years guaranteeing him say 10 million. Why would he do it, he would do it because he is not guaranteed 4 million in 2022. Why would we do it, because we could convert it to 9 million in year 1 signing bonus, then pay him 4 million in 2023 and 4 million in 2024.

Cap hit goes from almost 11 million in 2022 to 3 million so save 8 million. In 2023 cap hit is 7 million, but only 1 million if we cut him. 7 million in 2024 but no dead cap if we cut him.

Is there another starting CB we could get for this price? No there is not. If he gets back to being healthy and playing well we keep him and have a good CB on a very reasonable deal. If not, we cut him and lose nothing since we were going to pay him 11 million in 2022.

Simply we are asking him to take a pay cut to be guaranteed most of his 2022 salary. I am not saying we should not cut him, but if they decide to not cut him, this would be my approach to him if I was the team GM.