Good article from RealGm. Maybe Bima can confirm the salary figures but it doesn't seem all that complicated. If article is true and the salary difference in the first four years is only 5 million total........I don't see the Magic taking that risk. Howard will be traded......and he will be traded to a team that he wants to sign an extension. I don't see this being good for h-towns hopes. Over the coming weeks and possibly months, the eventual resolution of the Dwight Howard situation will be the first major test of how, if at all, the new CBA has shifted the dynamics behind the efforts of teams to retain their franchise players. The new rules were designed to increase team leverage while reducing the power players possess to dictate when and where they will be moved. The home team, which holds the player’s Bird Rights, can offer 7.5% annual salary raises, compared to 4.5% annual raises for all other teams. The home team can also offer a fifth contract year while all other teams are limited to four. And perhaps most significantly, a loophole has been closed: The player can no longer receive the larger annual raises and extra contract year with a sign-and-trade from the home team to another team. The only way, as a free agent, that the player can receive these twin benefits is by staying put. Another scenario is for the player to be traded, prior to free agency, transferring Bird Rights to the acquiring team which would then be able to offer the larger raises and an extra year. This, of course, is the essence of Howard’s request that the Magic deal him to one of his preferred destinations – reportedly New Jersey or Dallas – before this year’s March 15th trade deadline. Will the new rules be sufficient to keep superstars like Howard, who have expressed a strong desire to relocate, with their current teams? Whether the Magic front office feels comfortable enough to press its advantages at the risk of losing Howard without compensation if he simply signs elsewhere – and how Howard’s camp would then respond, as a real measure of how strongly Howard values a change of scenery over financial security – will answer the question in this case. Jerry West stated recently that if he found himself in the middle of such a dilemma, he would opt to try calling the player’s bluff. “If I were an executive on a team where a player says he’s going to leave, let him leave,” West said. Otis Smith, general manager of the Magic, might agree with West. “He can still walk, but with a $30 million haircut,” Smith said of Howard. It’s difficult to say, of course, whether Smith is truly prepared to follow this course of action or is simply posturing. Below are the actual salary figures of the free-agent contract that the Magic can offer Howard compared to any other team, like the Nets or Mavericks, both of which project to have the available salary cap room to sign Howard outright this coming offseason. Such a maximum-salary contract offer from Orlando would be $29.8 million larger than any other in total, but over the same four years, the difference is just $5.1M. Said another way, approximately 83% of Orlando’s financial edge comes from the extra fifth season, with the rest a product of the larger annual raises over the first four years. The lion’s share of Orlando’s leverage could be decided by how confident Howard is in earning a maximum-salary contract in the season after his contract with New Jersey or Dallas would expire. Howard would be 31-and-one-half years of age when he went back on the free-agent market again (if he did not extend his contract before then, which certainly should not be taken as a given). The first year of Howard's second contract with a new team, otherwise known as Year 5 if he remains with the Magic, would be no less than $21,741,334. Orlando’s Free-Agent Max Offer to Howard Year 1: $18,996,359 Year 2: $20,421,086 Year 3: $21,845,813 Year 4: $23,270,540 Year 5: $24,695,267 ________________ $109,229,065 Other Teams’ Free-Agent Max Offer to Howard Year 1: $18,996,359 Year 2: $19,566,250 Year 3: $20,136,141 Year 4: $20,706,032 ________________ $79,404,782 Read more: http://basketball.realgm.com/wireta...t_Howards_Options_Under_New_CBA#ixzz1nI40492Z http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/219156/A_Financial_Look_At_Dwight_Howards_Options_Under_New_CBA
I wouldn't trade howard. I would rather let him walk and rebuild. If I knew I was gonna let him walk, I would start purging the roster by getting shorter contracts.
So if you are the Magic you turn down a Howard/Hedo deal to the Rockets that is centered around Lowry/Scola/09ers/Budd/Knicks pick and another future first rounder? That trade does nothing to hurt them long term and allows them to get rid of Hedo's horrendous contract. I don't see how it helps your franchise to not take an offer like that.
Couldnt Dwight sign a 1yr deal or a deal with a 1yr opt out? If so he could resign after 1 year without losing anything theoretically. Or would he miss only get a 3% increase his first year instead of 5%?
If I'm Houston I don't send out Kyle Lowry in such a trade because then Howard won't sign an extension with us.
but then again you can still sign Deron Williams pg-DWill sg-Martin sf-Hedo/Parsons/Morris pf-Patterson/Dmo C-Dwight/Dmo
Dwight leaves in the offseason and him and D-Will go together to whatever team they want. If you trade Lowry for Howard you have no centerpiece to trade for D-Will.
With a starting lineup of Dragic/Martin/Hedo/PPat/Howard we are instantly the second best team in the West right behind the Thunder. Martin gets a lot of disrespect on this board but he is perfect if you have a dominate big man like Howard. You also still have Lee, Dalembert, Parsons, Morris, and Flynn off the bench (I'd guess that we keep Flynn as the backup pg). As much as I love Lowry I'd have to make that trade.
Why would you need to trade for DWill, he will be a FA this off season no? But then again, I don't know what the salary situation will be like after we trade for Howard Worst case scenario though is Howard walks and signs where DWill signs and we go lottery.
I like how people really think that 80m over 4 vs 110m over 5 for people who earn that much or more in endorsements on top is that big of a deal as compared to being able to win a title or more. It's actually kind of quaint in a mentally challenged fashion.
So you miss the chance to package him with Hedo's huge contract plus draft picks...to rebuild...without picks or a decent player? And you think any free agent will sign there, to play with Jameer, Anderson and Big Baby?
They will let him walk just like Toronto and Cleveland let Bosh/James walk. In the end they will end up taking a sign and trade for much less if they try are stubborn and don't trade him.
DeVos doesn't want to trade Howard (and i genuinely don't think he will sign off on it), doesn't really matter what Smith wants.
He's taking a hard stance now but even Gilbert caved in and ok'ed a sign and trade with Lebron. Might turn out different this time around though.
the sign and trade they will do, especially now that it doesn't really benefit the player anymore (S&T is now set to the free agent 4 yr 4.5%, rather than the Bird right 5 yr 7.5), to get something out of it. But trade him this season i highly doubt,
The Magic are (22-12), it is unthinkable if the team blow it up now. Raptors and Cavs have the same attendance, or better than the Rockets, despite their poor records. I think Howard can be traded, if the Magic lose more games before the deadline, or Howard forcefully ask to be traded. I don't see how they can blow it up when they are the top 4 teams from the East.
If D-Will isn't already on the team then Howard won't re-sign in the offseason. He and D-Will will just team up somewhere in free agency which probably won't be here.
This is most likely true. However, if the team was good enough to be in the playoffs and win a round or two then that might change. The other thing I'm thinking is if we could trade for DWill and get over the cap, then we have the ability to use the full MLE and any trade exceptions we can accumulate through these trades. So, trading for DWill instead of signing him outright could wind up allowing us more flexibility this summer.
