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2017 Offseason. Going through the motions

Posted on February 11, 2014 at 09:10 PM.

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So that discussion that Jordan and I were supposed to have after the celebration party, never happened. I got a call from him the next day saying we would have to postpone. But to continue on working and everything would be taken care of. I just led the team to back-to-back championships, so no worries. I figured we would take care of the official stuff later concerning my contract.

Therefore, I continued on with the normal offseason tasks.

First off were the options we accepted:
Parker 5.89mil
Embiid 2.59mil
Holden 2.22mil

Then we put in the qualifying offers for restricted FA:
Zeller 1yr/7.01mil
Stokes 1/1.35mil
And we declined to offer McCollum 1yr/3.30mil

This gave us about 11mil under the cap to shore up the bench and find a 6th man replacement for McCollum. He was going to ask for about 9-10mil for 4 years and I wasn't willing to pay that much.

2017 Draft:
This draft was top loaded with some crazy talent as always. Winning the title however put us in spot 30. But glad to swap the high picks for titles anyday.
Draft day was very active on the trade front as well. Much more than usual it seemed. We had a couple of offers to move up, but decided to stay put until our pick.

Along the way these trades were completed during the draft:
Bucks - 1st Rd #6 and Ekpe Udoh for
Raptors - Rudy gay and 2018 2nd Rd

Pacers - 1st Rd #7 and George Hill for
Nuggets - D. Gallinari

Kings - 1st Rd #12 and Will Lanier for
Celtics - Jeff Green

Hawks - 1st Rd #15 for
Suns - G. Dragic and 2nd Rd #3

Knicks - 1st Rd #24 and Blevins for
Mavs - Alonzo Black and 2nd Rd #4

Not seeing anyone I was really keen on taking and looking for some depth I made this trade when it came to my pick:
Bobcats - 1st Rd #30, Chris Terrell, and Andrew Harrison for
Bucks - Ashley Walker, Jordan McRae, and 2nd Rd #5

The Bucks then swapped that pick:
Bucks - 1st Rd #30 and 2018 2nd Rd for
Bulls - Tony Snell

My second round picks were nobody that I ended up releasing during pre-season.

NBA 2017 Draft - Round 1 Recap
Pick	Team	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt
1	Brooklyn Nets	Detroit Johnson	PG
2	Los Angeles Lakers	Dee Allen	PG
3	Phoenix Suns	Kyrie Haywood	C
4	Boston Celtics	Darius Spencer	C
5	Dallas Mavericks (rights traded to Knicks)	Alfonzo Black	PG
6	Toronto Raptors (from Bucks)	Taijuan Conway	PF
7	Denver Nuggets (from Pacers)	Jabbar Wilson	PF
8	Memphis Grizzlies	Jerrit Crosby	SG
9	Cleveland Cavaliers	Rj Rideaux	PG
10	Philadelphia 76ers	Che King	SG
11	Washington Wizards	Trey Tripplett	SG
12	Boston Celtics (from Kings)	Antonio Ramirez	SG
13	Golden State Warriors	Bill Cheadle	PF
14	Utah Jazz	Xavier Rhodes	SG
15	Phoenix Suns (from Hawks)	Deandre Sallis	PF
16	Orlando Magic	Sian Strickland	SG
17	Miami Heat	Mtyas Csontos	SG
18	Minnesota Timberwolves	Dee Hemingway	SG
19	Denver Nuggets	DionTinsley	SF
20	Toronto Raptors	Vernon Maxiell	SF
21	Oklahoma City Thunder	Ameen Gunn	C
22	Detroit Pistons	Kelenna Davis	SF
23	Chicago Bulls	Laquille Outlaw	SF
24	Dallas Mavericks (from Knicks)	Fabijan Novoselec	PF
25	Los Angeles Clippers	Saran Kolkman	C
26	New Orleans Pelicans	Rayshaun Smith	PG
27	Portland Trailblazers	Ekpe N'Diaye	C
28	Utah Jazz	Cheikna Dembele	C
29	San Antonio Spurs	Scotty Horace	PF
30	Chicago Bulls (from Bucks)	Jonah Bolden	PF

The final stage of the FA saw us matching the offer sheet to Cody Zeller for 4yr/26mil and Jarnell Stokes for 3yr/11mil.
We also added front court depth in Zac Randolph for 1yr/2mil and Perry Jones for 2yr/3mil.
This put us over the cap in meeting those offers for Zeller and Stokes, but left us with the full 5mil exception to use during the year if injuries required us to.

Charlotte Bobcats Depth Chart - 2017-18
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
PG	Kyrie Irving	Ashley Walker
SG	Dion Waiters	Jordan McRae
SF	Jabari Parker	Dylan McDermott	Vince Price
PF	Kurtis Holden	Cody Zeller	Jarnel Stokes	Perry Jones
C	Joel Embiid	B.J. Mullens	Z. Randolph

Now to get my contract taken care of and start the pursuit of a threepeat baby!!

Comments

# 1 BlindSideNZ @ Feb 11

Dayumn man! Such a fine read. I wish you all the past in that quest for title number 3. Me and the raptors are looking pretty lowly right now. MJ has to take care of you else he has lost his mind. Excellent trade on draft day. Depending on how they developed Walker you've found a fantastic sixth man. He does everything for me. And I will keep him at any cost haha! Looking forward to another update!

# 2 darkwolf80 @ Feb 11

I have never played with Walker before, but I remembered you singing his praises. I needed some SG depth and was looking to get rid of Harrison and his 5mil contract. I could never shoot with him. So I was pretty happy with the trade.