Not trying to derail this thread, but how is this situation different than what the Blazers went through with Brandon Roy? If not for those stupid 5 games with the T'Wolves, he would have been off our cap too!!
Only difference I can see is that BRoy wouldn't die on the court from a knee injury but Bosh could from a blood clot
The difference is we used the amnesty clause on Roy, not a medical retirement. We were on the hook for what we owed Roy, whether he played zero games or 1000, but the money we owed him didn't count against our cap. Of course, the reason we didn't go the medical retirement route is Paul didn't want to risk a Darius Miles 2.0 situation where Roy played a handful of games somewhere else and then ended up counting against our cap space for years to come. There is no amnesty provision in the current CBA. Edit: just to be clear, after waiving Roy, he did not count against our cap. That's the whole point of the amnesty provision. "The decision comes with major financial impacts. Roy will receive the balance of the $63 million guaranteed to him on a mini-Max extension signed in 2009. Roy's $15 million salary for 2011-2012 will be removed from Portland's salary cap and its luxury tax bill. His future salaries will also no longer count against Portland's cap figure or luxury tax. He was on the books through 2014-2015." The issue with Roy playing in MIN was about insurance, not the salary cap. By playing in those 5 games, insurance no longer picked up 80% (or whatever the figure was) of Roy's remaining salary. BNM
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/19452371/chris-bosh-miami-heat-agree-part-ways Bosh and Miami have agreed to part ways. Does this mean he will try to play somewhere else?
I think it does. I am betting Miami knew that they could get his cap number removed from the books. They waited till this summer so that he did not pull a Darius Miles and screw it up.
My first guess is he would want to go to CLE and play with LeBron for another chance at a title. They have Love but Bosh would play some '4' and some small '5' to make it work. If that didn't work out, then maybe Portland has a small chance if they have added PG13.
Bosh wasn't happy when Lebron left Miami after he took a big paycut to bring Lebron in just to watch him leave again. They had some bad blood at the end..I don't see him going to Cleveland....Spurs maybe....still think he should retire in Toronto
