Francisco García

THELANDLORD · Mar 6, 2013

RichardH said: ↑

Ha ha, that means nothing to McHale. McHale doesn't value those.
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Is that a joke? All he wants is veteran leadership. By watching his body language on the bench I'm sure he loves having him around.. He even said so in a recent interview

Gimmmethemike · Mar 6, 2013

LivinLikeLarry said: ↑

Francisco Garcia about to show the world he's on Joey Dorsey's level.
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Shut up

Gimmmethemike · Mar 6, 2013

basketballholic said: ↑

Garcia's trade value this offseason is basically nil unless his contract is modified to remove the team option and extended with 2 non-guaranteed years. Nobody is going to want to pay Garcia $6.4 million for next season with the exercise of his team option and for him to be traded, the team option either has to be exercised or removed and his contract extended.

Between now and June 30, Garcia's contract can be modified to remove the team option per (60) of cbafaq.com. It can then be extended for 2 years non-guaranteed with a signing bonus as long as we have salary cap space this year to swallow the bonus. As long as this bonus is paid after July 1, 2013, then it is not considered a renegotiation but the bonus is charged to our 2012/13 cap. Once again, this can only happen if we have the cap space left in 2012/13 to swallow the signing bonus.

If Morey and Garcia's camp agree to the above, it allows Morey to control his contract throughout the offseason and it is a non-guaranteed contract that can be traded. The benefit to Garcia is he gets some extra cash (signing bonus) for allowing Morey to control his contract.

In my opinion, if there was not a renegotiation of Garcia's contract before March 1, (possibly happened as part of trade and just hasn't been announced) then it would make a lot of sense for Morey to be negotiating this modification and extension to be able to control Garcia's contract this offseason. The rub would probably be how much would he have to pay Garcia in the signing bonus for Garcia to give Morey control of his contract while the free agent offseason is going on. Perhaps Garcia thinks he could sign a long-term contract for more money early in free agency than he could get by waiting while Morey decided what to do with him. But, once again, in my humble opinion, unless somehow Garcia jumps into our rotation and proves he is a good contributor to a playoff rotation then I seriously doubt he is worth more than vet minimum next season. If Morey offers a modification and extension with signing bonus Garcia should jump on it.

The importance of all of our non-guaranteed contracts is they give Morey the flexibility to make multiple trades using the 50% rule and the $5 million rule since we are under the luxury tax. For instance if we could make Garcia's contract a non-guaranteed deal, then we could conceivably trade his contract plus Brooks non-guaranteed deal and Delfino's non-guaranteed deal and TJones and Greg Smith for Pau Gasol. We give the Lakers one or two young players that they can use and they can dump the rest of the salary (something the Lakers are most likely going to try to do with Pau to lower the huge repeater's tax they are scheduled for). Alternatively, we could cut a bunch of guys and trade TJones for Pau almost straight up. But if we do that it limits our ability to make other trades since we've cut a bunch of salary and we are pushing the cap. There is greater flexibility in having a large $$$ in non-guaranteed contracts that you can use in trade that allow you to push past the salary cap. You can repeat this same scenario and insert Dwight instead of Pau if you wish.

I've got a lot more to say about this off season but this is not the thread to say it in.
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good stuff!! post more incentive posts please

wil55n · Mar 6, 2013

Really liking Garcia's attitude.

dxdx · Mar 6, 2013

Classy player and person. Brings a bit of experience to the team, good for the young ones to learn a thing or two.

I'm personally liking how the rockets' players are pretty much classy individuals with little to no egos. I think one of this team's greatest strengths is its chemistry, and its good to see that they have kept it in tact even with Ppat, Marcus Morris, Cole and TD leaving.

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