(04-28-2017 03:21 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(04-28-2017 01:54 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(04-24-2017 06:43 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Yeah, IMO Doc Rivers is gone if the Clips don't make the second round.

And I'd be very surprised if Chris Paul is there next season. He can opt out of his contract and go chase a ring with a contender. Spurs are a likely option for that move.

Griffin might stay with the Clippers because other teams might not be willing to pay him as much as the Clippers, given his injury history.

He should be done but I think all Ballmer will do is pull Doc's GM hat. But they have got to move Blake. I don't know what the contracts are like but maybe the Clips could a trade for Paul George straight up.

To be traded this summer, Griffin would have to opt-in to the last year on his contract, and he won't do that if he can make more money by opting out. So he either leaves as a free agent or he's playing for the Clippers next season.

The salary cap rules always seem to be a mess to me, but apparently the Clippers can pay CP3 more if he stays than other teams can if he leaves - but that depends on the Clippers wanting to give 5 max years to a player who will be 36 or 37 in the last year of the contract, and it depends on CP3 deciding that the extra money is worth playing his entire career without ever having a legitimate shot at a title. He's never even played in a conference final.

Thanks for the info. As you said, NBA deals are wonky and the Clips can pay Paul $70 mil/5 years more than anywhere else. That's not chump change obviously, but if he re-ups with LAC then I just don't see how CP3 ever makes it to the conference final. Someone suggested maybe the Spurs would be a good fit for him.