After securing their own No. 7 pick in Wednesday's draft lottery, the Warriors have four picks, which can be used to trade up in the draft or for an experienced small forward. They could use a playmaking forward, like Andre Iguodala or Lamar Odom, or a defensive-minded guy, like Nic Batum, Luol Deng, Luc Mbah a Moute or Josh Smith Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/31/SP2H1OQ8DD.DTL#ixzz1wZLYtehA
Maybe they are interested in Lu and maybe they aren't. The paragraph addressing specific veterans seems to read as the writer's speculation.
The Warriors have the cap space to make Batum a big enough offer that Portland may not match it. I'm not really seeing much on the Warriors that they'd part with that would make sense for a Deng trade.
Huh? I'm pretty sure the Warriors will have no cap space. This article suggests they could move the #7 pick for Deng. Hes way overpaid but he would be a good fit on the GS roster. Dunno if they pull the trigger on that though as they may think they can get him for less if Chicago is dumping salary.
http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages/data/salaries/warriors.jsp Looks like $56M plus $2.3M for the #7 pick, $850K for the #30, and the cap was $58M last season. If they can offer MLE for first two years and $10M+ year 3, I think Portland may pass on matching.
Batum can get us to sign him at a contract starting at 8-9 million per.... And his agent wants nothing less than that. If GS signed him to a MLE type contract for two years with it going up to 10 million in year 3 and 4, Portland immediately matches.
Unless I missed some extreme provision in the new CBA that allows teams do drastically raise a salary from one year to the next then that is impossible. There's a limit on how much a salary can increase from year to year to prevent teams willing to go over the lux from offering a minimum deal in year 1 and then jacking it up the rest of the years. MLE won't get him.
Yeah, Denny, the most GSW could offer, without a sign and trade, is the MLE. Run: The Bulls don't need to dump salary to get under the tax threshold, they could do that by merely not picking up Korver and Brewer's office. And for that matter, shipping Deng doesn't give them any flexibility -- they would still be above the cap. I also think you're underestimating Deng's value a little bit. In addition to being productive on both sides of the ball, he eats a ton of minutes. There's a huge gap between Deng and Lebron Jameses of the world, but I don't think 14-15M a season is that overpaid. I wouldn't move him for a number 7 pick. There really isn't a good scenario for a Bulls-GSW trade.
For a 3 year contract, the offer can be $5M, $5M, $10M, but for the signing team, $20M/3 is used per year for the cap calculation.
Denny, I think you're referring to the Arenas scale, which is a special provision that only applies to players who are coming off their first or second years in the league. For all the other players, the contract limitations are as follows: five years with 7.5 percent raises for Bird free agents; four years with 4.5 percent raises for other players.
