For a general manager, free agency is like the NBA Finals. And Brooklyn GM Sean Marks has hit a Game 7 winner.
The Nets not only successfully landed Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving but found a creative way to finesse the cap enough to add DeAndre Jordan and Garrett Temple. And Marks and his capologists did it all without having to pare a single player off their roster.
Brooklyn came into free agency with $69 million in cap space, not including restricted free agent D’Angelo Russell. That left them $2 million short of being able to give Durant and Irving their respective four-year, $164 million and four-year, $141 million max deals.
The Nets were facing the prospect of having to trade both Rodions Kurucs and Dzanan Musa just to afford Durant and Irving.
But the Post had reported that Durant and Irving – who’d won 2016 Rio Olympic gold alongside Jordan – had discussed taking less to make room for their longtime friend. And ESPN reported Sunday that’s exactly what the Nets’ new dynamic duo did.
The Nets put in $5.7 million of unlikely but possible bonuses on Durant’s contract, and $4.9 million of similar bonuses in Irving’s deal. They included making the Eastern Conference semis, and reaching 45 wins, according to ESPN. That let them add Jordan on a four-year, $40 million deal.
Ironically, Jordan spent last season with the Knicks, who’d hoped to put this trio together in the Garden.
The Nets have the room exception, with is going to Temple. A solid locker room presence, he’ll replace departing free agents Ed Davis and DeMarre Carroll in that regard and ink a two-year, $10 million contract with the second season a team option.
Carroll is headed to San Antonio in a culture fit if there ever was one. Davis is off to the fast-improving Jazz on a two-year, $10 million deal.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/01/nets-pulled-off-salary-cap-miracle-to-put-talent-around-kevin-durant-kyrie-irving/
2019-07-01 15:54:00Z
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