Ok … 15.75m or $17m contracted money is not a huge difference …
Like I said earlier…It’s about the guaranteed money which will see him through 3 years most likely… time will tell if they keep him on the books after that..
We don’t know yet… they don’t need much space for D Hop as they can backload the crap out of it like Von’s contract that cost them like $5m last year on the cap
The only possible “logic” i can think of is that they want to free up some money for an acquisition this year ( D Hop? ) and don’t want to kick any (more) money down the road for Tre and Dawkins