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What's the best 2023-2024 8-man rotation you can put together under the salary cap? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by schwockem@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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The 2023-2024 salary cap is $136.021 million. What is the best 8-man rotation you can put together that comes under that figure for this season?

Assumptions:

This is a single season evaluation just for the 2023-2024 season (use this season's salary for a player and ignore future contract value)
Player performance is based on this season's performance (you're getting 38 year old Lebron, not Heatles Lebron)
Just choose 8 players (act as if you will fill in the rest of the 15-man roster with players that will not play meaningful minutes)
Fit matters (balancing positions, play styles, strengths / weaknesses etc is a factor)
Postseason matters (act as if success is a ship, so playoff experience is a plus)

For consistency, use this source for player 2023-2024 salaries: https://www.espn.com/nba/salaries

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[–] rraddii@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

C Jokic 47M

PF Markkanen 17M

SF Anunoby 18 M

SG Malik Monk 9M

PG Dejounte Murray 18M

Bench

SF Bridges 22M

G Lonnie Walker 2M

C Drummond 3M

Total of 136M, team could use some more interior defense and ball handling, but I would be pretty confident they are the finals favorite. Depth got cut off at the end so there could be some better options but without rookie contracts it's the best/quickest I could think of.