a sticky thread that gets updated on a regular basis with salaries/draft picks/European assets would benefit the site
Hey, someone should create an [OFFICIAL] paging Bimathug, to... you know...sorta make it official I guess?
Is it legal to sign Jason Terry to a partially guaranteed contract for the purposes of a sign-and-thread. For instance, could we sign him to a 6 million dollar one year contract with only 1 million guaranteed and trade it to Portland as part of a deal for LMA? I know you can't do it with a retired player like Keith VanHorn, but can you do it with our own player?
Nope. Sign-and-trade deals must be a minimum of three years in length, with the first year being fully guaranteed. Also, I highly doubt Terry agrees to such a deal at this point in his career. Not unless he's going to a contender or unless the team he's going to will be waiving him (allowing him to sign with a contender) and eating his entire first year's salary.
So we could sign-trade-terry but his first year would be guaranteed. If that is the case, we could potentially sign him for the amount we need to match LMA's salary and send 3 million in cash to cover most of it. Something like Papa Prigs TJones Decker(signed) Harrell (signed) Terry or Brew resigned to 5 million bucks for LMA at 19 million with a one year opt-out.
I have my doubts if an S/T can be done with KJ in a package to Portland, I know it would have to be a separate trade, but if they are in a semi-rebuilding mode, they might be able to use him especially with the Wesley Matthews/ Aaron Afflalo UFA situation.
That is why I didn't put KJ in the trade. Terry is the obvious choice because he is near retirement and would be making a lot of money just to hang out.
We are already out of cap space. We would be in the same situation as we are now and still have our MLE.
A hypothetical question: If Aldridge signs for 12 mill so we can keep Ariza and Dmo and go for a title this year, which i think is his main focus, that why we can bring Lull in for MLE if iam not mistaken How much of a pay cut would Dwight have to take next year for us to resign Aldridge and sign Durant to two Max deals?
K.J. (essentially) cannot be signed-and-traded. The Rockets cannot use (Non-) Bird rights to sign him to more than $1.045 million, and teams cannot sign-and-trade a player using the MLE.
Ridiculous hypothetical, but can't we sign Aldridge at a one year discounted rate (to keep Ariza) and sign Durant at a discount next year, and then after one year we'd hold Durant, Aldridge and Dwight's bird rights to give them all their full max deals? Just a way of worming around the salary cap restrictions to get the four guys on the same team?
