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Yes.Frozenropers":1vgwu86w said:pinksheets":1vgwu86w said:Sgt. Largent":1vgwu86w said:pinksheets":1vgwu86w said:The dead money is basically irrelevant to whether he gets moved or not.
It's absolutely relevant. In fact, it's probably the most relevant part of this entire equation, for all sides involved. Wilson, the Hawks and any new team trying to fit Russell's remaining contract under their own cap....which is almost 20M less than it was last year.
Ask the Patriots, the reason they cheaped out and got Cam Newton last year is because they had almost 15M of dead cap of Brady's contract to get off the books.
Times that by almost three, and that's our situation if Wilson's traded.
And then he's off the books next year. It's absolutely something the Hawks could choose to do rather than drag this out.
But, again, there are clear and easy paths for Russ to lower that dead money hit significantly if he wants out. That's likely what would happen, and I don't get why we're talking like the $39m is set in stone when it's plainly not.
The idea that the dead money, especially when it can be significantly lowered easily, is a hard blocker here and would make a trade unlikely even if both parties want to part ways just isn't the reality.
Easy?
All that needs to happen is Russ pays back some of his signing bonus, which his new team could pay him back in a restructure easily. If Russ wants to go, this dead money hit won't stop him.