ESPN Insider: Teams with best Cap Space

thanks for your insightful contradiction...well said

 

But you are wrong, so...

 

Well if I make a statement that you find wrong...back up your opinion. Otherwise its just a waste of a post...

 

Meant to have a new salary cap update up this week, but work's keeping me from finishing it. Hope to have one up in the next few days. It may not be until next week.

Regardless, not much will change from the last one. But I know that people like to have all the information in one place.

Okay, back to work.

 

If we throw a huge offer at any RFA it should be, in order of preference:

1) Roy Hibbert
2) Eric Gordon
3) Nic Batum

Forget Brook Lopez, he sucks.

Huge != max by the way. None of those guys are worth max money yet. Well, I wouldn't break things if we offered the max to Hibbert, but I would ಠ_ಠ

 

Sounds about right.....

Question should be; What are we doing? What direction are we going in next season because it is not makeing much sense up to this point....

 

Family
Rockets
Work

Get you priorities straight.

Personally I do feel that unless we release Lee, Dalembert (paying the small guarantee), don't resign Goran or Camby then we are looking at the same team because the available money will be used up resigning them and our picks. Now we still have the amnesty and we could use it on Martin and just let everyone above go then pick up about 4-5 new pretty good FAs from our big money savings from the FA pile but it would be quite a gamble if we strike out there.

Looking forward to your article.

 

lots of teams with cap space = market inflation. have to agree with Cuban on this one, unless you are netting the marquee player (D-Will) it will probably be best to sit this one out...

 

We still have the amnesty and Dalembert has a team option. That could be an additional 18-19 mil before resigning Lee and Dragic so probably about6-7 mil after

 

Yeah, it's not like the cap space will magically disappear, even if we don't bring anyone in, we can use the cap space in a trade.

 

Pacers willl match
Portland will match...
Maybe NO wont match...but a SG isnt really a need with Lee...probably able to put up similar production on a cheaper contract and Martin still on the team.

 

In one sense, salaries are likely to be higher than normal for players because there's so much cap room floating around, and teams must now spend -- at minimum -- 80% of the cap on player salaries (not sure if that's already in effect, or if it's also being slowly implemented until 2013).

There is, however a competing force: the highly punitive luxury tax threshold incoming in 2013, so teams are going to need to balance both.

 

I feel sure that Coon's numbers are accurate. ESPN's bucketing of where teams fall may be at fault.

However, with Howard opting in for another year and Williams heading to Dallas, is there anyone out there that merits serious attention? The list of UFA's is short and there are few that would be serious upgrades.

The 2013 crowd of UFA's is possibly a more fertile hunting ground.

 

Answer is really no...no one that we wouldnt have to drastically over pay to get ...and most at positions where we have a player almost as good already.