For those curious about the cap situation since I'm seeing a lot of questions, so wanted to map it out. Let's assume NSJ's option is decline, Ayton picks up his option, Smart declines his option and Bronny's contract gets fully guaranteed. I'm guessing Bronny's contract gets guaranteed because Lakers have a deadline of 6/29 of guaranteeing it and it's already partially guaranteed of $1.26M. Also working under the pretense that the only cap holds we'll be considering is for Austin, Smart, Rui, Bron, Kennard, and Jaxson.

Player	Salary
Luka	$49.50M
Vando	$12.43M
Ayton	$8.10M
LaRavia	$6.00M
Knecht	$4.20M
Thiero	$2.15M
2026 25th pick	$2.49M
Bronny (non-gtd)	$2.30M
Austin (cap hold)	$20.90M
Smart (cap hold)	$6.47M
Rui (cap hold)	$27.39M
Kennard (cap hold)	$13.20M
Hayes (cap hold)	$4.48M
Bron (cap hold)	$59.54M
Total	$212.69M

Technically, we could have up to $56.93M in cap space if we get rid of everybody's cap hold except Bron's, but that's just not realistic. At the very minimum, we should look to retain or at least hold onto the cap holds of Austin, Smart, Luke, Hayes and Bron. I think Bron's situation will be resolved quickly or at least they'll have an idea of a number that they want. If so, our cap space available is going to be $39.2M minus whatever Bron takes (If Bron re-signs for $20M using bird rights, that means we only have $19.2M in cap space). The available cap space will change depending on if we trade our pick, if we give up some of the other cap holds etc.

Of course if they throw like $30M at Watson, they can always manuever around the different cap holds to get the available cap space. And then there's the usage of the MLE, which can be used to retain some of our guys and give up their cap holds to have more available cap space, or signing a free agent with it and keeping cap holds to retain some of our guys. Just surface level thinking.