I would have a great attitude. I’m in my 40s, only played basketball as a kid with my friends, and I’m 5’10… but a really good attitude! I’d accept the minimum salary
Great point . Fingers crossed that the Rockets do the right thing and waive Williams! Sometimes emotions play a big part and I am sure Udoka is itching to get Cam outta here. I am a manager at work and there is nothing worse than dealing with disgruntled employees with a negative attitude (even if extremely talented).
I would like to see if we can use whitmore as a vin wafer type role. Come in and score against backups and let kd rest
Nobody that doesn’t play defense will have a role on Ime’s team. If he can show significant improvement on team defense he will have a roll. It’s as simple as that.
Great post! Your analogy of Von Wafer is spot on. Cam reminds me a lot of Wafer with the high level scoring, but yet having other basketball issues keeping him from maximizing court time.
We don't save millions of dollars by waiving or trading Cam, we are not in Lux tax land, if we have to get under, you wave Jeenathan Williams. We are hard capped now, with all these days, all we can do is take back an equal salary for Cam - or picks, and taking two 2nd round picks is ridiculous for his talent. And Cam is so much better than Von Wafer, whom I liked as an instant offense guy...but Cam is a star in the making....Von was always a role player. DD
The Rockets are in luxury tax land and barely under the first apron for which the Rockets are hard capped. As Cam makes over a million more than the vet minimum, trading Cam for picks would literally save the Rockets millions. I wouldn't trade Cam for less than a FRP, but that doesn't change that trading him saves the Rockets millions.
yes I know, but there’s a limit on how much salary a team can stretch in a given yr. The Suns are already stretching two other players so the rest of that annual allotment is less than Beal’s annual stretched salary. So they have to come to an agreement with Beal if they want to waive and stretch him. They can’t do it unilaterally like a normal team could. He basically has to take a buyout for less money if he wants to leave the Suns. But he might be willing to if the money he’s leaving on the table can be made up by signing with another team. And unfortunately we don’t have any real money left. That’s all I was saying.
3.5 million to be exact and maybe a little in luxury taxes. I still think this is the plan, but correct me if I’m wrong, it can happen anytime before the trade deadline. Unless a decent FRP is being offered now, I don’t see the point of trading him before he gets another shot at being a good teammate. He does have some obvious tools and provides some more depth at SG/SF.
Of course, but the Warriors are asking for a "promising young player" so they'll need to include someone better.
It's impossible for them to stretch him, since the stretch provision only allows 15% of the salary cap to be 'dead cap' (ie stretched players). The Suns have Little and Liddel taking up 3.8M in dead salary. 15% of the cap is 23M, meaning 19.2M in 'stretch space' Stretch Beals 110M remaining over 5 years and you get 22M 22 > 19.2 therefore they cannot stretch him UNLESS he agrees to drop his buyout number by 13M. Will Beal make 13M over the next 5 years? I would bet so. Even vet minimum contracts will get him there. Will he take a buyout? Depends on whether he wants to screw the Suns, fade into retirement, or play some ball. I would not mind at all if we got some picks for Cam and Beal 2 years at min salary.
So cutting Jeenathan's 2.2 m doesn't fix that? Also, as Tax is collected AFTER the season, they have all year to get under it if they desire to do so. DD
I see no value in trading talented head case for talented head case that would be buried on the depth chart no matter what.
interesting that the minimum salary over 5 yrs will make up the difference. But don’t you think he’s gonna sign a shorter contract for more than the minimum?
