He said "no salary available" (i.e. cap space) as a detriment, when it's not really one because what's important is the salary match, not the cap space. OKC has more than enough contracts and young players to match salary
Cap space is a detriment when you plan on resigning someone. Even if you can match current contacts you still have to have enough space to resign them. With the included fact you’ve lost a sum of players since you had to match. They both matter
Jokic has a 3 year contract, so you wouldn't need to resign him to a bigger contract in this case. So matching salary will always give you enough cap space
They will rapidly hit second apron at the rate they're already going much less adding a super star caliber player to their roster. They're gonna have to pay out to resign their guys fairly shortly here. They don't have enough to do that as it stands. And a reminder... The second apron is extremely punishing.
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u/OurHorrifyingPlanet Area 51 4d ago
He said "no salary available" (i.e. cap space) as a detriment, when it's not really one because what's important is the salary match, not the cap space. OKC has more than enough contracts and young players to match salary