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David Levine -> RE: 2024-25 Postmortem Offseason and Draft (6/30/2025 12:46:58 PM)
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Ingles is back for the minimum.
That's fine. We were always going to sign one player for the minimum, so it might as well be a well liked one that doesn't expect to play. Looks like we can still use the full tax-payer exception.
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Dane:
The Wolves now have 13 players under contract for next season, and must roster a minimum of 14. So at least one free agent to go.
The question is how much can they spend on that free agent. And I believe the answer is the full taxpayer mid-level exception ($5.685M).
I have the Wolves $7,540,297 below the 2nd apron -- assuming Randle and Reid's contracts both scale up with 8% raises annually.
However, Donte DiVincenzo ($750k) and Jaden McDaniels ($1M) have "unlikely bonuses" in their contracts for next season -- and those incentives do count against the 2nd apron.
(Julius Randle also had $1.5M in unlikely bonuses in his previous deal, but by *not* opting in to his player option and instead signing for basically the same number but without the unlikely incentives, at the personal advantage of locking up more long-term money, that $1.5M that would have counted against the 2nd apron is no longer there. I need to confirm that's what happened with Randle's incentives -- but I know it was trending that way to be the plan.)
So we take the $7,540,297 (current space) - $1,750,000 (McDaniels and DiVincenzo incentives) and that leaves the Wolves with $5,790,297 in spending power below the 2nd apron.
It would be *tight* up against the 2nd apron, and they would be hard-capped at the 2nd apron if they used it, but the Wolves *could* use the taxpayer midlevel exception to sign a free agent for up to $5,685,000.
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