Ryan S. asks: How soon can the 49ers cut their losses on Ford and Weston Richburg? They’re two of the highest-paid players on the team who cannot stay on the field. That money needs to go to Fred Warner and Trent Williams.
I’m sure the 49ers see the same connection. One possible hang-up: Ford, who’s been dealing with a back injury, has to be healthy before the 49ers can release him. If he can’t pass a physical by April 1, then they might be on the hook for a big chunk of his 2021 salary — $11.6 million. It’s something to monitor as the offseason begins.
https://theathletic.com/2235323/2020/12/02/javon-kinlaw-49ers-mailbag/
The Warriors’ team payroll this season, according to Spotrac, is the highest in the NBA at $174,342,591. Their luxury-tax bill is also scheduled to be the highest: $41,715,591. The highest the Warriors’ active salary-cap figure climbed during the Kevin Durant era was $144 million and change.
The Warriors having the highest payroll is combined with having the largest need for fans at games. Warriors owner Joe Lacob has said his team is losing more than any other by the absence of fans. Chase Center is still an infant in arena years and needs to be fed with fans. Instead of offsetting shortfalls by cutting salary, Warriors ownership has spent even more. The Warriors still have millions available to spend through their taxpayer midlevel exception and the disabled player exception expected to be granted by the league due to the injury to Klay Thompson.
14. Golden State Warriors
Average wins: 31.2
Playoffs: 8%
Is it realistic that the Warriors might not be competitive for a playoff spot after Klay Thompson's Achilles injury ended his 2020-21 season before it started?
The first four games of the 2019-20 season suggest so. Golden State was 1-2 and on its way to a third lopsided loss in four games when Stephen Currysuffered a broken bone in his left hand that sent the Warriors into the tank.
It's certainly possible the Warriors' newcomers will outperform projections accumulated without the same kind of talent around them, but Golden State also can't count on Curry staying healthy. He missed an average of 22 games in 2017-18 and 2018-19, long before the Warriors were worried about draft positioning. Without Curry, projected to play 54 games, Golden State will again be lacking in efficient shot creation
VEGAS: 36.5 WINS — .500 — 36-36 = TO 41-41 OVER 82
DAVID ALDRIDGE: 21ST BEST OFF SEASON-
21. Golden State Warriors
2019-20 record: 15-50; did not make playoffs
Added: F Kelly Oubre (acquired from Oklahoma City); G Brad Wanamaker (one year, $2.25M); F Kent Bazemore (one year); C James Wiseman (first round, second pick overall); G Nico Mannion (second round, 48th pick overall)
Lost: G Ky Bowman (waived)
Retained: None
The Skinny: It is no one’s fault, of course, that Klay Thompson — for a second straight season — will not play a game. But you don’t lose someone as dynamic as he is, and who is as much a part of the Warriors’ DNA as Steph Curry, and think you’re better entering a season. The Dubs did the best they could with a limited window, using their $17 million trade exception from the Andre Iguodala deal last year to bring in the athletic Oubre, who’ll step in at Thompson’s spot and give GSW some length and defensive chops it sorely lacked last season. He’s clearly not the floor-spacer Thompson was, so Steve Kerr will have to re-imagine his offense around slashers like Oubre and Andrew Wiggins and a post outlet in Wiseman rather than the Splash Brothers ho
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On Tuesday night, less than 24 hours before the deadline for teams to offer contracts to unsigned members of their 40-man rosters, two agents predicted that the number of players thrust into the free-agent market could reach 100.
The final number of “non-tenders,” 59, was a record but much lower than some expected, in part because an unprecedented 59 players agreed to pre-deadline deals, some out of fear. Fear of unpredictable decisions in arbitration coming off a 60-game season. Fear of a flooded free-agent market further depressing salaries.
The end result was the same. While some clubs also were more inclined to settle, others got the capitulations they wanted from many players, and the likelihood of lower free-agent prices for many others. Tempting as it might be to blame the pandemic, the economic fallout from COVID-19 merely exacerbated a trend in recent years of teams seeking to reduce the salaries of players who are less than elite.
MLB moves:
https://theathletic.com/2230828/2020/12/03/mlb-trade-free-agency-tracker-news-signings-trades/
FIANCES: LIONS AHVE TO TAKE 24.8M CAP HIT, 49ERS WOULD HAVE TO PAY CAP NUMBER OF 34M AND 27M NEXT 2 SEASONS.
San Francisco 49ers: Coach Kyle Shanahan helped Ryan become the league MVP and reach a Super Bowl. He just knocked the Los Angeles Rams out of first place in the NFC West with Nick Mullens subbing for Jimmy Garoppolo at quarterback. Think Shanahan could win big with Stafford? His Falcons offenses were more pass-oriented than his 49ers offenses have become for a simple reason. Shanahan had greater faith throwing the ball with Ryan than he has throwing the ball with the quarterbacks in San Francisco. Stafford would open the playbook.
“They would win a Super Bowl,” an offensive coach said. “Stafford would be in a real organization finally. He would bend to Shanahan and that offense because there is such a history of success with that system. And Stafford would know he’s not going to get hit in the head all the time like in Detroit.”
TO ME:
1- JIMMY
2- DARNOLD (JETS GET LAWRENCE)
3- STAFFORD (LIONS DRAFT QB)
4- DRAFT A QB
NO:
COUSINS 41M DEAd cap
MATT RYAN 49M dead cap, 2022 goes down to 24m dead cap
CARSON WENTZ CAP HIT 34M CAP HIT DEAD
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