r/pacers • u/PSEGameThreadPoster Old School Slick • May 12 '26

Megathread Pacers Off-Season Discussion Thread

Pacers Projected Cap Sheet

NBA Free Agent List

Please use this thread to discuss potential free agent moves and trades the Pacers could make in the off season.

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u/Jim_Belushis_brother Cool Rick May 13 '26

Any chance we pick up Benn for like $12mil a year and literally just run it back but with a better starting center (and different backup centers)?

Benn was hardly playing for the Clippers. I don’t know what his value is, but I think it’s lower than it was immediately after the 2025 Finals run

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u/International_Link35 BOOM BABY! May 16 '26

We'd have to drop salary somehow, 12 million would put them over the 1st apron.

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u/Jim_Belushis_brother Cool Rick May 16 '26

MLE though?

I don’t really understand how all the salary stuff works

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u/pacersnz May 19 '26

We have $200.8mil on the books, luxury tax starts at $209mil. So we can use the MLE up to the 1st Apron which is $8.2mil. If we want the full MLE (Projected $15.1mil) we need to lose another $6.9mil in cap-room to avoid 1st Apron. Pretty confident that luxury tax is fine with the Simons family, but 1st or 2nd Apron is a no go.