It's honestly about time. I knew it would happen eventually. Now to make the Batum offer and hope it isn't matched.
Even with the Darko amnesty, they don't have enough to offer Batum more than 4/20M. They only have 4.4M in cap space right now. They could waive Miller and Webster to open up enough space, but that takes 7 days from when they were waived. They can't offer a 4/46M sheet today.
With Darko on the team, the salary for this year is at $48,791,800 as we have not officially signed anyone. Subtract Darko's $5,228,000 that would count against the cap and we are at $43,563,800 with the cap set at $58.04m. That leaves us with around $14m before the Miller and Webster contracts are dealt with. http://hoopshype.com/salaries/minnesota.htm Where did you come up with the $4.4m?
because you can't NOT deal with Webster's and Miller's contracts. You're at 53.6M until Webster and Miller are waived. That's a 7-day process. Love 12,922,194 Martell Webster 5,712,000 Darko Milicic Brad Miller 5,104,000 Nikola Pekovic 4,837,200 Derrick Williams 4,809,840 Jose Barea 4,493,500 Wesley Johnson 4,285,560 Luke Ridnour 4,000,000 Ricky Rubio 3,741,120 Wayne Ellington 2,083,042 Chase Budinger 885,120 Malcolm Lee 762,195 Total: 53,635,771 After waivers (7 days from requested): Love 12,922,194 Martell Webster 600,000 Darko Milicic Brad Miller 800,000 Nikola Pekovic 4,837,200 Derrick Williams 4,809,840 Jose Barea 4,493,500 Wesley Johnson 4,285,560 Luke Ridnour 4,000,000 Ricky Rubio 3,741,120 Wayne Ellington 2,083,042 Chase Budinger 885,120 Malcolm Lee 762,195 Total: 44,219,771
The deadline date for the options on Webster and Miller were extended so they don't count fully against the cap. There is a portion of each that is guaranteed the does count against the cap but all of it does not.
