That could be an option. To pursue that, Portland would loose the rights to Whiteside, Hood, and the ability to use the MLE.
Portland could get to ~$12M of cap space. In so doing, Portland would have to renounce the MLE, all TPE, Whiteside, and Hood. After that move, Portland could only fill out the roster with the BAE and minimum contracts. Not gaining the $3M of cap space (over the MLE) is worth loosing out on the flexibility of the other tools. ***EDIT*** So in re-reading the CBAFAQ.com Portland would loose the BAE as well. However, apparently Portland could still re-sign Hood, Whiteside, & Melo using the 'non-bird' exception. This allows for a 1-yr deal with a salary starting at up to 120% of his salary in the previous season.
My math could be off, I'm showing us at 98,535,113 with 9 players on the roster. That's waiving all holds. But we'd have to add in 3 roster charges, I believe. Don't have ther exact amount, but let's just say it is 500K, that brings our salary to 100,000,000, which leaves us with cap space equal to the MLE, basically.
(shakes head) Back when he was healthy he was worth $6 Mil. After an achilles injury and missing pretty much an entire season he thinks he is worth more?? Who was the last player who improved after an achilles injury? Seriously.
The requirement for Early Bird rights is playing for a team for 2 seasons. Although I think it's just 2 consecutive seasons, not 2 complete consecutive seasons.
Will he be back? What does this mean? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...s-free-agent&usg=AOvVaw37yR70u7HGFHJ3ngqWyDJg
OK, so I misunderstood. I was worried I'd fallen into a rip in the space-time continuum. 2020 and all.
I hit some of the cap space questions in my post in another thread - http://www.sportstwo.com/posts/5041308/
Not necessarily the same team for 2 years. It's not changing teams as a FA for 2 consecutive seasons. If a player with bird rights is acquired via a trade (say at the trade deadline) - the new team will still have bird rights even if the player was only on the team for 3 months.
I'm sure he always intended to opt out, but after rupturing his achilles? Maybe he wants a longer contract? If I was Olshey I would pack his contract with incentives, so that if he doesn't make them he actually ends up with less than $6M/per.
We absolutely need to re-sign him. I wouldn't expect it to be for much more than 6m per year, but having him signed on for 3 or 4 years would be great for all.
