Warning: This is a summer NBA doldrums sort of thread. The Bulls dumped salary in preparation for the 2010 Free Agency Sweepstakes. They came away with Carlos Boozer and a few "Bench Mob" stalwarts and won a league-high 62 games. Team salaries were just under the $58mil salary cap. To re-assemble that 2010-11 Bulls team would now cost you over $90million: Player-2013-14 salary Carlos Boozer $15,300,000 Luol Deng $14,275,000 Derrick Rose $17,632,688 Kyle Korver $6,760,563 Ronnie Brewer $884,293* C.J. Watson $2,016,000 Joakim Noah $11,100,000 Kurt Thomas $884,293* Omer Asik $8,374,646 Keith Bogans $5,058,198 Brian Scalabrine $884,293* Taj Gibson $7,550,000 John Lucas $884,293* Total: $91,604,267 * Not signed...vet minimum salary assumed Admittedly, part of the story here is Keith Bogans being in the right place at the right time. As you may have read, in order to get the salaries to match for the Brooklyn-Boston trade (featured Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce going to the Nets), Brooklyn signed and traded Bogans to Boston with a $5mil+ 2013-14 salary. Yeah, it's good to be Keith Bogans.
Asik would cost the Bulls $5M, $5M, then $15M. Roughly. The $8.3M figure you use is that $25M averaged over his 3 year contract per modified Arenas rule. Fire Bogans already. Scalabrine is an announcer or coach or something. So what's the real differences in that roster to what we have today? Korver at $6.7M vs. Kirk at $4M. CJ at $2M vs. a 1st round pick.
if the Bulls matched, his salary would have been $5M the first year, $5M the second, $15 the third. The $15 balloon is what made the Bulls balk at re-signing him. The 8.3M figure is a CBA rule for the team that signed him (Houston), they have to average the $25M evenly over the 3 years.
