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| quote: | Originally posted by slingshot
Hump and Quincy Douby are out for Antoine Wright and Deavan George...looks like AP is on his way to Cleveland as well.
Shit, we're are going to have such a different looking team next year. If I remember correctly...we still retain a mid-level exception and that's the main reason why we did a sign and trade with Marion? If Marion would have signed as a FA we would have lost that? Am I correct here? |
I think the Raps have the mid-level exception regardless. My guess is they go after a PG now with some/all of it?
The issue was losing Marion for nothing and needing to work under the cap to fill the holes on the bench.
this is my understanding of how this sign and trade would benefit everyone (after spending WAY too much time reading about the nuances of the CBA, which is just fucked):
Raps
- don't lose Marion for nothing. they get George and Wright.
- gain some cap room now and next year. Humphries has this year + a player option @ 3.2 mil each year (and he would have exercised that option, most likely). that's now gone. so is Douby's 855k this year. that allowed them to take George and Wright (since being at the cap once Turkoglu signs wouldn't let them sign anyone to fill the bench), but their contracts are up after this year, so that's cap room for next year.
Dallas:
- didn't have the cap room sign Marion as an unrestricted a free agent, plus they would risk losing him to another team.
- George and Wright's contracts (1.6 and 2.1 mil) are gone as is Stackhouse's 7 (though only 2 was guaranteed, i.e. he could be bought out). So they shed 11 mil, which lets them take on the contracts of Marion, Humphries and (unfortunately) Buckner. Buckner's shit contract was part of the price of getting this done for Dallas.
Grizzlies:
- ditch Buckner's bad contract which is 4 mil this year, with a player option for 4.27 next year that he would surely have exercised.
- if they get "Stackhouse, Douby and cash"...Douby only makes 855k in this last year of his contract. Stackhouse, as mentioned, makes 7+mil this year, but only 2 mil is guaranteed. So they can keep him or buy him out for 2 mil., but free up 7 mil in cap room (I think that's how that works). either way, he's off the books by next year.
- they have the most cap room in the league right right now and will be positioned *really* well to lure in big names this year and/or especially next year (and resign there own guys at some point)
Marion:
- gets the contract he wants, because no team who actually wants him has the cap room to give him 8 mil/year. the sign-and-trade also requires a contract of at least 3 yrs. He was otherwise facing settling for the mid-level exception somewhere and might have only got that for a year or two. that would have been a nasty hit to the wallet (and his ego).
If anyone sees holes...please, point them out.
The rules and exceptions under the CBA are just ridiculous. I think you need a team of lawyers and accountants to even begin to *really* understand it, haha.
edit: so now the talk is that Turkoglu will also be done under a sign-and-trade, with Orlando getting a trade exception in the deal. I don't get how this all has the Raptors UNDER the cap, as they now apparently have room to sign another player? unless that's not right and they are referring to the mid-level exception?
so maybe Delfino and Rasho coming back...
Last edited by MarkT on Jul-09-2009 at 14:21
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