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The summer breaks down like this: Bulls have about: $47.31M in guaranteed contracts + $711k Non-guaranteed contract to Gray we probably pick up. I'm not betting we do the same for Curry. + $1.8M or thereabouts for our 1st round pick (currently tracking at #10) = $49.83M The luxury tax (if it increases at about the same levels in the past ~ 4%) is estimated to be about $70.58M Thus, we've got about $20.75M to work with to resign Deng and/or Gordon before we exceed the luxury tax threshold. Gordon's QO is $6.404M So if he signs that, we can pay Deng up to $14.35M before we exceed the cap. That looks pretty feasible to me. At the moment, I think the only teams likely to be that much under the cap are Philly and Memphis. Memphis will have max money to dish out if they choose, though it's unclear if Deng or Gordon really fit with the rest of their team. Philly has two significant FAs of their own to deal with; Andre Iguodala and Louis Williams. It's very conceivable that they might have $10-12M left over after signing those guys, but so they're a bit of a danger to go after one of ours. Nobody else is, at least without some sort of major changes --------------- Other considerations: 1. Resigning Duhon, Shannon brown or Cedric Simmons? Could probably squeeze em in if they don't ask for much. 2. Looking ahead to re-signing Gooden. Especially if Gordon isn't resigned, it'd be nice to lock up Gooden. However, the Bulls could be looking at $20M or so to spend in 2010 along with a solid core of players locked up. I'd probably pick between signing one of those two guys to resign, and only do it then if I could move Nocioni for a shorter contract. I think that's feasible, but it's no sure thing either. Perhaps Gordon going out in a sign and trade takes Noc with him and brings a player on a shorter contract?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MikeDC @ Feb 21 2008, 08:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The summer breaks down like this: Bulls have about: $47.31M in guaranteed contracts + $711k Non-guaranteed contract to Gray we probably pick up. I'm not betting we do the same for Curry. + $1.8M or thereabouts for our 1st round pick (currently tracking at #10) = $49.83M The luxury tax (if it increases at about the same levels in the past ~ 4%) is estimated to be about $70.58M Thus, we've got about $20.75M to work with to resign Deng and/or Gordon before we exceed the luxury tax threshold. Gordon's QO is $6.404M So if he signs that, we can pay Deng up to $14.35M before we exceed the cap. That looks pretty feasible to me. At the moment, I think the only teams likely to be that much under the cap are Philly and Memphis. Memphis will have max money to dish out if they choose, though it's unclear if Deng or Gordon really fit with the rest of their team. Philly has two significant FAs of their own to deal with; Andre Iguodala and Louis Williams. It's very conceivable that they might have $10-12M left over after signing those guys, but so they're a bit of a danger to go after one of ours. Nobody else is, at least without some sort of major changes --------------- Other considerations: 1. Resigning Duhon, Shannon brown or Cedric Simmons? Could probably squeeze em in if they don't ask for much. 2. Looking ahead to re-signing Gooden. Especially if Gordon isn't resigned, it'd be nice to lock up Gooden. However, the Bulls could be looking at $20M or so to spend in 2010 along with a solid core of players locked up. I'd probably pick between signing one of those two guys to resign, and only do it then if I could move Nocioni for a shorter contract. I think that's feasible, but it's no sure thing either. Perhaps Gordon going out in a sign and trade takes Noc with him and brings a player on a shorter contract?</div> I think it's unlikely that we'll have to deal with a team doing to us what the Heat did to the Clippers. With Mike Miller and Rudy Gay, I'm not sure where Luol Deng fits over there, and they Memphis has a slew of small guards already. Plus they're always broke. I guess that leaves Philly, but I have a hard time imagining their management doing something that competent . One silver lining of this piss poor season has been that both of our guys have probably played themselves out of mega money deals. I can't imagine any team with the money gearing up for a near max offer, which means we should have enough money to sign both of them, should we choose.
Yes indeed, although after looking through the contracts again I figured out that Seattle is now likely to be $8-10M under the cap. If I were them I'd hold out one more year (at which point they'll free up even more money), but they're another team one has a hard time picturing attracting big name players. Who the heck wants to move to Oklahoma City? As a side note, why are the Sonics bent on this? I mean, haven't they watched Memphis slowly dying? I can think of a good 5-10 places that'd be better off for a team than Oklahoma City. Seattle's a good place. If they're insisting on moving, why not Louisville or Las Vegas or a second team in Chicago? San Diego? St. Louis? Pittsburgh or Cincinnati? I mean, there's just so many places that are much bigger, much nicer, and in many cases have a much better history for supporting basketball.
