So I know we have no picks in either round, and can't trade 2015 picks either, but what about $? On contract for next year, we have: LA- 15 mil (expiring) Nic- 11 mil (2 yrs remaining) Wes- 7 mil (expiring) Rolo- 5 mil (team option/ expiring) TRob- 4 mil Dame- 3 mil Joel- 3 mil (expiring) DWright- 3 mil (expiring) CJ- 2mil Leonard- 2 mil Vic- 1 mil (QO in 2015) Crabbe- 800K Will- 800K So Mo opting out, leave us with a payroll of ~56 mil, and approx 7 mil under the cap. So we lose our exceptions, etc, and we're still left with some solid cap space. What do we do with 7 mil?
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9947573/nba-free-agents-2014-2015 Rodney Stuckey and Hinrich would be some obvious targets I'm thinking
Man, I really get the feeling Wes is about to get paid, and I don't think he's worth the money he's going to get. If we can keep him around 7.5 though, that would be workable. It's scary because LA is going to sign a max extension, Dame is going to get a big deal, Rolo is due for a salary bump, and then there's Wes. I get the feeling someone will have to go.
I really like Stuckey off the bench. He can play both positions and he's a scary good scorer at times.
I know a lot of you guys don't like him, but Nick Young could score a lot of points off of the bench too.
I'm not the best with the NBA cap but isn't it possible to resign everyone and go over the cap if they've been on the team for 3 + years? isn't that called bird rights? So if the cap is 20$ and you're @ 19$. Your able to go into luxury tax and pay a penalty. I know there's a hard cap. But it's hard to imagine not being able to resign everyone if wanted to. I mean OKC has 4 players with big contracts, If they wanted to they could have signed Harden to a big one also. But they lowballed and traded him. I mean the nets are what. 80+mil over the cap? due to the luxury tax? I know that was done on trades but I believe players that have been with a team for 3+ years allow teams to resign over the cap.
If so, that does change things slightly. But our closets are still pretty damn bare. We really don't have much to work with
I'm not even fully sure how the new CBA works, but it seems like having a ton of huge contracts doesn't work anymore.
I've seen people on other boards bring up Marvin Williams, but he seems like a crappy tweener so who knows.
I believe we can use our cap space then still get a small exception. They added that saying teams over the cap had an advantage by being able to use an exception, while teams under the cap were stuck at the cap.
Well, I think I've said it in other threads, but I really like Paul Pierce and Pau Gasol. I don't know what kind of deals they're going to get, but they would be amazing off our bench.
Just double checked if we are under the cap we get to use our cap space plus a "room exception" which is 2.7 mil this summer.
Mo is our only FA this summer. And I think since he was only here one season there are no rights to renounce.
So 7mil + another 2.7? We have to be smart with spending our $ this year with all those upcoming extensions.
