Paying your own, starting with Randle.

There are two ways a team can decide to operate going into the summer: as a cap space team, or as an over-the-cap team with only exceptions at their disposal. How cap space teams allocate their cap room varies depending upon the goals of an organization, and for all intents and purposes the Pelicans will most likely be operating as a cap space team this summer. The following will be with that in mind.

Some teams clear all their room in previous years to attempt to sign max players to long term deals, some teams know that they’re not quite ready to compete so they take contracts for teams trying to save money and get further away from the ever looming tax. The Nets did this past summer taking…