Yep. I believe if Love was off the books they would be at around $85M (including Allen). So that means even paying Sexton in two years they will be just fine. Garland, if extended, won’t kick in until what the 24-25 season? They will be fine salary wise.
Very true....but they have a longer window in MLB and if smaller markets will pay guys that's where they usually go. True, it's more often LA paying guys these days but IF another team offered the same to their guy to stay they likely stay.
It’s called a rebuild for a reason. For example, the Lakers spent how many seasons rebuilding before they got Lebron? If for example they couldn’t attract stars like CLE how long would that rebuild take and who would still be on that roster bc of money, fit, etc. It took Lonzo 4 years to develop into something more than just a young guy on a bad team and we still haven’t seen him prove he is more than that. We will see if he can in his 5th season. The rebuild is 1,000x harder than just attracting stars. You have to start somewhere.
Probably because of that ugly ass uniform
I can agree Haliburton looks like he is/could be better than Okoro, but no way Cavs were taking him at 5. Really, I doubt any team was taking him at 5.
Right...that was a silly (or, yes, absurd) comment to make. By that "logic" who cares we passed on Haliburton as of now and there are many really good players on bad teams.
and when you start the rebuild with no cap money (with or without Love extension) AND in a city like Cleveland it makes it that much tougher.
Buyout candidate.
so wish our owner would have done that, but he just had the fire sale without chasing the ring while still in our window. could have gone the way SD has or to a lesser extent Milwaukee or the Twins (a couple years ago) but he chose not to.
and that $85 mil would be if they never used that money on anyone to replace Love (or sign other players) so likely we'd still be at the cap or just below regardless.
He actually did go all out that year and following season (by signing EE). Of course, by all out I mean spending league average. according to Forbes, even when they did go "all out" they had an operating income of $25-30 mil....and in a contending window with arguably the best rotation in the game he still cut $44 mil from the payroll then another $50 mil. I mean, why even own a team, especially the one you allegedly cheer for?
Yeah choking in 2016 hurt, and then 2017 was really the best shot and they just didn’t get it done
2017 was definitely their most talented team (and, yeah, 2016 sucked). after that, I get they wouldn't pay Lindor a megadeal, but you need to either go all out to win with him or if you wont then dump him a year sooner and get more.
Yeah smart fo hamstrung by the worst owner name in sports
