[Salary Cap update] Projected at $58.5M

if the cap is barely increasing can it be assumed that NBA revenues in general are stagnant?

 

I would think it helps us by .456M

 

No. Remember, under the new CBA, the players are guaranteed a significantly reduced percentage of Basketball Related Income (BRI) (in the 49-51% range, down from 57% in 2010-11). The owners and players union agreed to keep the salary cap and luxury tax levels at $58.044 million and $70.307 million, respectively, for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons, regardless of actual BRI.

This July will be the first time under the new CBA in which actual BRI will determine the salary cap. BRI may have increased by a decent amount since 2010-11. If 57% of BRI equated to a $58.044 million salary cap and ~50% of BRI now equates to a $58.5 million salary cap, then it's safe to assume that BRI has grown at a decent clip over the past three years.

Just not quite as nicely as the sides would have liked.

 

I know this limits what we can do and therefore we'd have to make a few more moves to open d12 max space, but I'm assuming also this makes it harder for other teams too? Hopefully we can take advantage of a more cap restrictive market somehow.

 

Well if the cap is increased from $58.044M to $58.5M ,then the cap would be less restrictive, no?

 

Cheap ass nba squeezing teams dry and screwing over the rockets. If it were 60 million then we could have easily paid a team $3 million to take the $1.7 million cap hit for royce white and had the cap space to sign dwight, an extra roster spot, and most importantly white out of houston.

 

Hi Bima! Glad you're on today.

Obviously the cap projection increases our difficulty in freeing the room to sign Dwight outright.

Moving T-Rob (3.5m) is no longer enough even with waiving all non-guarantees except for Parsons and Beverley.

Best Option
Get Dwight to agree to a deal about $987,691k short of max

Alternative One
Pay another team 2.1m cash to take Royce White's contract for a future second round pick.

Alternative Two
Trade either T-Jones or T-Mo in a package with T-Rob for a future first round pick

Alternative Three
Waive and Stretch Royce White's contract

After we sign Dwight, we can fill out the roster with our exceptions.

We can hopefully re-sign G.Smith, Anderson and another using the 2.6m room exception.

Brooks to the 1.5m vet min.

Only thing the 58.5m cap projection changes from more optimistic 60m projections is that we have to send out one more PF.

 

More restrictive in that its less than what some had hoped for ($60 mil).

 

Thanks Fair, I know ppl have been giving you a hard time for your posting volume and I know that you've covered this info already in the other threads, but I did find this helpful to have it summarized and condensed. Appreciate it...

 

But .114mil goes to Harden for signing his super-max as he gets 25% of any salary cap increases.

 

I don't believe so. Only Harden's because his max is actually tied to the salary cap. Dwight's is not because his is just due to the rule that a player may get 105% of his previous contract as their new max, instead of the cap-related max that depends on yrs in league.

 

The Rockets cannot pay a team $3M to take a contract off their hands until July 10th because they used a part of their cash allowance this year in the Thomas Robinson trade.

 

Didn't they use only $1 million leaving them $2.1 million left of their cash allowance. The allowance re-ups for next season so it's wise to use it now to pay a team to take White (not that it's likely anyways).

 

It's actually a little less than 25%.

http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q16

 

I know he's been a major headache, but i have trouble believing that if we paid almost all of his salary somebody wouldn't be willing to take free flyer on royce white.

 

it pretty much makes it impossible for any team to sign both cp3 and dwight, even atlanta will struggle, and the mavs are definitely out.

 

Basically, we have to give up Garica, Delfino, Brooks, Anderson, Ohlbrecht, and also need to trade TRob too.

There are probably two ways to sign D12:

First Way: Trade TRob + White for further pick(s), and release/trade G. Smith
Second Way: Trade TRob + D. Mo/T. Jones for further pick(s), stretch R. White and keep G. Smith

First way is better, but it depends on TRob's trade value.

After signed Howard, we can sign 34th rookie and other players using minimum salary, and use non-taxpayer MLE to sign SF/SG (maybe F. Garica).

 

There is a simple way to trade Lin

 

do tell