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  • bb1432@alien.topBtoNBA - Main@nba.spaceSengun ≠ Baby Jokic
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    10 months ago

    Pau averaged 3.2 APG for his career, with a high of 4.6. That’s about on par with Karl Towns.

    Tim Duncan averaged 3.0 with a high of 3.9. Timmy was not a great passer.

    Kevin Garnett averaged 3.7 with a high of 6.0. Nobody talks about KG as a passer anymore.

    Joakim Noah averaged 2.8 with a high of 5.6. People don’t think about his passing chops.

    Karl Malone averaged 3.6 with a high of 4.7. Anybody ever remember “Malone to Stockton?”



  • They could have paid him more a couple summers ago.

    Supposedly, he took a paycut with a wink-wink (read: illegal) agreement that he’d get it back on the back end.

    Why do that? Two reasons:

    1. Luxury tax limitation. If you’re in a very high tax bracket, pushing a dollar today into tomorrow can have more than a dollar’s worth of impact on your expenses.

    2. Roster-building asset maximization. In this case, by taking a certain amount, they could use the non-taxpayer Mid Level Exception to sign a better player than they could sign with the Taxpayer MLE. Once you sign someone to the Nontax MLE, you are hard-capped for that league year. But the next year, you can blow right past that number while still retaining the guy you signed on the MLE the year before.