ESPN is reporting that the Associated Press is reporting that Earl Boykins will opt out of the final year of his contract. They have kind of a funny way of confirming the story — Larry Harris told ESPN that he hadn’t heard from Boykins yet (Boykins has until Saturday to tell Harris he intends to return) and Boykins’ agent wouldn’t return calls.
Anyway, that’s great — by leaving then the Bucks will have the most cap flexibility possible. They could even trade him as part of a draft-day deal to a team that wouldn’t want to take on his salary for next year.
I, for one, am glad that Boykins will be leaving. He’s a nice player and a great story, but you can’t win with a player like him getting big minutes. For all the mismatches his size creates offensively, it creates even bigger problems with his defense that blow up the entire team’s schemes. He’s constantly posted up by whomever is guarding him, forcing double teams and leaving open men. You can’t hide him in a zone, either, because that just allows the opposition to choose who they want to attack him with.
Having Boykins certainly didn’t help the Bucks win at all. But maybe now that he’s going to opt-out and could become a valuable salary cap-loophole creator in a trade, maybe something positive will end up coming out of his Bucks tenure.
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