#TheStormIsComing | Nashville Expansion Story Pt. 2 | NBA 2K18

[orlegend0208]

Quote: Originally Posted by Killuminati

Following! Great read so far! I love how you are breaking down all of the top players, and how you organized the draft and expansion draft, it's really easy to follow and keep track of what's going on I have a quick question, are you giving your expansion team any cap restrictions? I remember looking it up a few years ago and the NBA had rules in place to limit the cap room of new expansion teams to prevent them from throwing big money at star players right off the bat I believe in season 1, expansion teams only have 66% of the salary cap that other teams have, and in season 2 it bumps up to 75% of other teams cap room, then in season 3 they get 100% of the cap room I'm not sure if they have changed things since then, or if that is a rule that even matters in 2k associations lol, but it makes it super hard to put together a team for the first few seasons Sent from my N9560 using Operation Sports mobile app

I honestly had no idea that was the rule! I just looked it up and I found exactly what you were talking:

"Charlotte will have a Salary Cap in its first season equal to 66% of the Salary Cap applicable to the rest of the league and a Salary Cap in its second season equal to 75% of the Salary Cap applicable to the rest of the league."

I can't find anything different, so I'll definitely implement that this season. I just have to remember that in Year 1, my Salary has to be below $65.40M and in Year 2 my Salary has to be below $74.32M. So I'll adjust my plans for free agency accordingly.

Thanks for point that out and thanks for following!

[orlegend0208]

Free Agency: Nashville Recap

Before anyone signed, I made one final trade to make sure we'd stay within the $65M salary cap we were held to this season.

I packaged Tyson Chandler and Nemanja Bjelica to see what teams were offering. I got this solid trade from the Nets and I accepted the offer:

Nashville Receives: Toronto's 2018 1st Round Pick and PG Isaiah Whitehead
Brooklyn Receives: C Tyson Chandler and PF Nemanja Bjelica

The Nets had recently traded Brook Lopez to the Nets as apart of the DeAngelo Russell deal. So before the deal was made, Timofey Mozgov was slotted to be the starting Center. Apparently, they weren't to thrilled with the thought of that, which convinced them to make the trade revolving around Tyson Chandler.

We pick up a nice, young PG in Isaiah Whitehead. The 22 year old is pretty athletic with solid ball handling skills. He's not a very good perimeter defender and he's still developing a perimeter shot. Once he does, with his size and athleticism, he'll become a pretty solid player.

And then we picked up that 1st Round Pick... Since it's the Raptors, there's a really good chance that the pick will end up late in the 1st Round... But, it's a 1st round pick nonetheless.

There was one big reason that I made this trade. Tyson Chandler is going to make $13M this season and Nemanja Bjelica is going to make $3.95M this season. While, Isaiah Whitehead is only going to make $1.31M this season. So, by going through with this trade, we cleared up $15.64M in cap space, along with acquiring a 1st Round Pick.


Later on in the day, four free agents signed contracts with us: Blake Griffin, Jared Sullinger, Wayne Ellington, and Tony Snell.

Before the 4 of them signed with us, we had $46.69M in cap space ($65.40M salary cap for year 1). Then after the four of them signed, we had $8.83M in cap space.

However, we did get some bad news today... Kentavious Caldwell-Pope ended up signing with Utah. The Jazz came out of absolutely nowhere, offered KCP a 3 year, $51.75M contract and he damn near accepted on the spot.

So, there was one final free agent that I wanted to pursue. That was PG Patty Mills, the San Antonio Spurs backup PG. Mills was a huge part of their recent championship run in 2013-14. Not only did Mills only want the minimum, but he was exactly what we were looking for in terms of a backup PG to complement De'Aaron Fox. He was a veteran PG, with experience in big games, and he had a great perimeter shot.

Thankfully, we offered Mills a 1 year, $1.42M deal on the 2nd day of Free Agency and he signed with us the following day.

After an off-season with a ton of moves, we finally had our roster set for the start of our inaugural season. Here is a look at the 2017-18 Nashville Storm:

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[orlegend0208]

NBA Free Agency Recap: Key Signings

Atlanta Hawks

Sign SF Andre Iguodala to 2 year, $14.50M deal

Boston Celtics

Sign SF Gordon Hayward to 4 year, $129.91M deal
Sign PF Zach Randolph to 2 year, $7.44M deal

Brooklyn Nets

Sign PG Michael Carter-Williams to 1 year, $2.05M deal
Re-Sign SG Sean Kilpatrick to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Chicago Bulls

Sign SF Kevin Durant 4 year, $149.13M deal
Sign PF David West 1 year, $1.42M deal

Cleveland Cavaliers

Sign C JaVale McGee to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Dallas Mavericks

Re-Sign C Nerlens Noel to 3 year, $66.23M deal
Sign SF James Johnson to 3 year, $30.96M deal
Sign SG J.J. Redick to 2 year, $22.64M deal

Denver Nuggets

Sign PG Jeff Teague to 3 year, $82.22M deal
Sign SF Thabo Sefolosha to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Detroit Nuggets

PF Nikola Mirotic to 2 year, $8.67M deal

Golden State Warriors

Re-Sign PG Stephen Curry to 5 year, $194.05M deal
Sign PF Thomas Robinson to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Houston Rockets

Sign PF Amir Johnson to 2 year, $5.93M deal
Sign C Jordan Hill to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Indiana Pacers

Sign PG Jrue Holiday to 3 year, $45.98M deal
Sign SF Bojan Bogdanovic to 2 year, $11.82M deal

Los Angeles Clippers

Sign PF Ersan Ilyasova to 2 year, $9.57M deal
Sign SG Ian Clark to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Los Angeles Lakers

Sign SG Tim Hardaway Jr. to 3 year, $45.49M deal

Memphis Grizzlies

Sign PF Taj Gibson to 2 year, $13.76M deal
Sign PF Dirk Nowitzki to 1 year, $4.04M deal
Re-Sign SG Tony Allen to 1 year, $1.42M deal
Sign SG Jordan Crawford to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Miami Heat

Re-Sign SG Dion Waiters to 3 year, $46.85M deal
Sign SF Tyreke Evans to 2 year, $11.63M deal
Sign C Festus Ezeli to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Milwaukee Bucks

Sign SF Jeff Green to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Minnesota Timberwolves

Re-Sign SF Shabazz Muhammad to 2 year, $14.66M deal
Sign PF Alan Williams to 2 year, $9.60M deal
Sign PG Ty Lawson to 2 year, $7.59M deal
Sign PF JaMychal Green to 2 year, $5.19M deal
Sign PG Derron Williams to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Nashville Storm

Sign PF Blake Griffin to 3 year, $93.64M deal
Sign C Jared Sullinger to 2 year, $10.25M deal
Sign SF Tony Snell to 1 year, $1.84M deal
Sign PG Patrick Mills to 1 year, $1.42M deal
Sign SG Wayne Ellington to 1 year, $1.42M deal

New York Knicks

Re-Sign PG Derrick Rose to 4 year, $98.60M deal
Sign SF P.J. Tucker to 1 year, $1.70M deal

Oklahoma City Thunder

Sign PG Shelvin Mack to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Orlando Magic

Sign SF Rudy Gay to 3 year, $69.79M deal
Sign C Alex Len to 2 year, $6.25M deal
Sign C Kelly Olynyk to 2 year, $4.94M deal

Philadelphia 76ers

Sign PG George Hill to 3 year, $82.76M deal

Phoenix Suns

Sign PF Paul Millsap to 4 year, $136.26M deal
Sign C Mason Plumlee to 2 year, $20.82M deal

Sacramento Kings

Re-Sign PG Darren Collison to 3 year, $32.53M deal

San Antonio Spurs

Sign SG Kyle Korver to 1 year, $1.42M deal
Re-Sign SG Manu Ginobili to 1 year, $1.42M deal
Sign PG Rajon Rondo to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Toronto Raptors

Re-Sign PG Kyle Lowry to 5 year, $188.64M deal
Re-Sign PF Serge Ibaka to 3 year, $55.56M deal
Sign PG Brandon Jennings to 1 year, $1.42M deal

Utah Jazz

Sign SG Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to 3 year, $51.75M deal

Washington Wizards

Re-Sign SF Otto Porter to 4 year, $97.76M deal

[Slyone14]

Followed the last one, and you know ill be following this one

[orlegend0208]

Quote: Originally Posted by Slyone14

Followed the last one, and you know ill be following this one

Thanks! I appreciate that!

[Killuminati]

Rondo to the Spurs and Dirk left Dallas?! Now that was an interesting free agency period

Will you be keeping track of some of the other teams during this association? Seeing all those signings makes me interested to see how things are going to play out around the league

One that stood out to me was Brandon Jennings signing a tiny contract to back up Lowry in Toronto. Isn't that crazy how his career took such a turn? Remember when he was the man on the Bucks? I still play NBA 2k13 and Jennings always wants close to a max contract as a free agent. It'd be interesting to see how things go for him and others around the league, and of course on your team as well

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[orlegend0208]

Quote: Originally Posted by Killuminati

Rondo to the Spurs and Dirk left Dallas?! Now that was an interesting free agency period Will you be keeping track of some of the other teams during this association? Seeing all those signings makes me interested to see how things are going to play out around the league One that stood out to me was Brandon Jennings signing a tiny contract to back up Lowry in Toronto. Isn't that crazy how his career took such a turn? Remember when he was the man on the Bucks? I still play NBA 2k13 and Jennings always wants close to a max contract as a free agent. It'd be interesting to see how things go for him and others around the league, and of course on your team as well Sent from my N9560 using Operation Sports mobile app

I thought about manually using the Mavericks to re-sign Dirk... And manually using the Spurs to make sure they didn't sign Rondo. I can almost guarantee you, Rondo will never play for the Spurs. But then again, despite a couple moves that I thought probably wouldn't happen in real life, it did give this MyLeague some interesting story lines heading into this season.

For example... How about KD to the Bulls after one season with the Warriors? It was crazy because on the first Moratorium day, KD had an offer from Golden State, but Steph didn't. Then, next thing I know, Steph isn't on the Free Agent list anymore. So I backed out to see what was up with that (then I realized he wouldn't come up in the Transactions list yet because he hadn't officially signed... I'm still trying to get used to the Moratorium period) and when I try to go back into Free Agency I see a "social media post" on the side of the screen saying that the Warriors gave up their rights to KD. Weird stuff lol.

But yeah, I'll do a better job this time around by making sure I keep you all up to date on the standings, and other big stories around the league.

It's funny that you bring up Brandon Jennings in 2K13... I remember on 2K13 I always used to try and bring him in once he hit Free Agency... I just loved using him in that game. But yeah, it is crazy to see him and some other guys taking the Minimum.


Thanks for the comment!

[Slyone14]

Did you design the court and unis yourself? Heard the downloading court expansion is broken?

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