Wait, are you actually agreeing that if the Knicks had paid Precious the maximum that they could have given current constraints, the league would have investigated the Knicks for salary cap circumvention?

No, not at all. I wrote that we paid him less than we could have and less than I expected (but still probably more than he would get from another team). We could have paid him a lot more and the league wouldn’t have cared.

By the way, I don’t understand why paying more would have blocked the TPMLE, but I believe TNFH when he wrote that it does. That could certainly be the reason we ended up paying what we did. But I’m not sure any useful players will be available for that amount.

If we want to have that much matching salary, we can just sign literally anyone with the TPMLE and trade them. We’ll have the salary if we want it.

Yeah but with an extra player.

That presents no problem if you’re trading for someone making $10-11MM. You just do a 2-for-1.

Let’s say we want to trade for a center making $15mm, though.

Now you’re combining Precious, the TPMLE guy, Cam Payne, and Jericho Sims to get over $15mm. That’s a 4-for-1 trade with three guys the other team probably doesn’t want, and they have to cut three players to make it work. Probably not gonna happen.

Having the single salary would have been useful. IMO more useful than having the TPMLE.

I wonder if Leiter Jr. takes the closer spot from Holmes…

I get the unhappiness with Holmes, but tonight two swinging bunt infield hits, another hit too slow to turn two and then Torres muffed the transfer on a second dp ball.

Nah, attention-seeking is saying stupid shit that is unverifiable because it is so stupid that it never made sense in the first place. Just take the L and learn, asshole, and stop with the lame “victory lap” bullshit. The blog would be better for it.