JUNE 29: The Pacers are guaranteeing Bogdanovic’s $10.5MM salary for the 2018/19 season, league sources confirm to Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports (Twitter link). Today was the deadline for Indiana to waive Bogdanovic in order to avoid that guarantee.
JUNE 24: The Pacers plan to retain veteran forward Bojan Bogdanovic through his salary guarantee date later this week, a source familiar with the team’s plans tells Ben Gibson of 8Points9Seconds.com.
Having signed a two-year deal with Indiana last summer, Bogdanovic is under contract for the 2018/19 season, but his $10.5MM salary is currently only partially guaranteed for $1.5MM. The club could clear $9MM from its books for next season by waiving him before June 29, but apparently has no plans to do so.
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The Pacers’ intentions for Bogdanovic come as no surprise, since the former second-round pick excelled during his first season with the team, setting new career highs in PPG (14.3), FG% (.474), and 3PT% (.402), among other categories. Bogdanovic started 80 regular season games for Indiana, and the club would be comfortable keeping the 29-year-old in the starting lineup entering the 2018/19 campaign, Gibson writes.
Bogdanovic’s contract is structured similar to Darren Collison‘s, and the Pacers reportedly plan on guaranteeing the point guard’s 2018/19 salary as well. Keeping both players on the roster will reduce Indiana’s potential cap room this July, but the team should still have a good amount cap flexibility.
Even if Bogdanovic’s and Collison’s salaries become fully guaranteed and Thaddeus Young‘s player option is exercised, the Pacers’ guaranteed salaries for 2018/19 would only total about $78.6MM. The club also barely has any guaranteed money on its 2019/20 cap.
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Thaddeus Young and Trevor Ariza take discounted salaries and go to the Warriors. Just hoping. I don’t know anything (a statement many would agree with LOL.)
Change Thaddeus Young to Dwight Howard and you have a good chance of that happening
Dwight will go to Boston. GSW will offer him the vetran minimum and he wont take that.
Ainge won’t take selfish players: DHoward in spades. Can’t shoot free throws….bad teammate. Zero for three.
Ainge has wanted him for awhile FYI. As go for his FT%… he shot 57% last year. Not terribale tbh
Every bit as bad as your spelling.
He wouldn’t need to start. Greg Monroe had similar concerns: only effective around the basket, unable to guard pick n rolls, expected role is bigger than realistic role. A team like Boston would bring Dwight off the bench and use him in spurts to increase rebounding potential and rim runs on pick n rolls with prodigious shooting lineups. A team like the Warriors would try to do that by having him start. He has talent and a real NBA coach will be able to use him correctly.
Howard to mavs? Carlisle would lose the rest of his hair, but Cuban might roll the dice.
Never heard anything about DH12 been a bad team mate, all the opposite he seems to be quite a happy type of guy, tbh. & his numbers are pretty good, as I mentioned before, when he started in Orlando I think people got it wrong when they said he was the 2nd coming of Shaq or even better, overvalued. But since then they have underrated him a lot, is a very good player, very consistent & you know what you get, apart of a happy guy… so why all the hate.
His character is what’s in question, not his game which, having been slowed by injuries, is that of a reliable defensive 14/10 centre.
His multiple children to different women, continually reported clashes with coaches and in-game finger pointing and eye-rolling convinces me he is of weak moral fortitude.
I also don’t get players with talent who don’t work. He NEVER developed a post game or shot… Makes headlines ten years into his career for having a session with Dream, and says last offseason he’s been shooting threes… Just a bit of an ‘it’s everyone’s fault but mine’ type guy…
and he says hes a Christian therefore he has to be a good team mate right?
Would fit in well with GSW bible study, which I think has a bigger impact on their ability to compromise and work together despite having 4 all-stars than people would think. They are all very disciplined and righteous people who care very much about the decisions they make and the people their decisions effect. I’m not religious at all but don’t bash Christianity when it’s probably worked wonders for the Warriors.
I don’t think that’s been a thing since Mark Jackson forced them all to pray. I think they are just high character guys, nothing to do with faith.
If the Pacers keep their roster, they’ll have $82 million in cap space next year if the cap goes up to $108 million. Expect at least $40 million of that split between Turner and Sabonis.