Rejoint: juill. 2021
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A lot of arguing about the salary cap and LTIR here, but I want to talk about the trade. The benefits for Tampa are obvious -- they were desperate to get rid of Johnson's cap hit and Seabrook's won't count against them -- but I'm surprised that Chicago was interested. With the moves they've made over the last couple of weeks it's clear that they're going for it, so why are they giving up most of their remaining cap space for another team's salary dump and only a 2nd round pick two years out? This puts them within $2.5M of the cap with still a couple of RFAs to sign, so they can't really afford to be taking other teams' salary dumps. Johnson did play well in the playoffs this year, so the Hawks must think he's still worth $15M over the next 3 years; otherwise they would have been better off to spend that cap space on something else.