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regarding re signings, I'd see the following salaries:
JR - around 7M/year;
Shumpert - around 5/6M year;
Thompson - around 13M/year;
Mozgov - around 14M/year
So it totals a raise of around 23M at 16/17 season + new Love / LeBron max. This would put the new total around maybe 110M at that season, considering the Cavs simply keep their guys.
So basically, next MLE 3.5M and draft are the last remaining moves left to Griffin. He's got to get it right. After that there will be no more room. Gotta roll with it for 3-4 years.
Actually, this is another reason you don't want to overpay your own players just because you can do so, or because it would be too hard to find a replacement player. So long as your players are on reasonable, market-rate contracts, they are tradeable assets and you will retain some measure of flexibility in terms of your roster.
It will be really interesting to see what Thompson gets this summer because I can't see him being worth to any other team what he is worth to the Cavs, and every other team must know that the Cavs will match any offer that is reasonable and even an offer that is not entirely reasonable.
Cavs will of course have $3.5M+ MLE every year, plus the biannual exception every other year, so long as they aren't over the apron, and they can try to buy a pick in 2016, or any other year, if they wish to use their $3.3M+ annual allotment for that purpose.
They have shown this year that with Lebron they hold some attraction to veterans who have been willing in some cases to sacrifice money. Maybe they can get Mo Williams this off-season on this basis. This is a fairly significant tool at their disposal.
It will be really helpful if they are able to draft late in the first as well as teams like OKC and Chicago have been able to do, but I am not optimistic.