If Rockets get out of the Taylor Contract; they can be a player in the '06 FA class

That sounds good..I guess we'll have to be very patient lol.

I would definitely go for a power forward if we still do not have one by then..and then get an athletic, young shooting guard or small forward who can play defense and knock down perimter shots with Tmac.

 

what you were not taking into account are contracts yet to be signed or extended. i think the rockets will give barry and deke 2 year deals this summer (if deke doesn't retire). and i think padgett is due for an extention sometime next year. it is popular belief that we will sign a PG this summer using part or most of the MLE. and cd is dead set on keeping this draft pick.

with that all added, i do not think we will be under that cap anytime soon. it is possible to be under the cap however, we are not in a rebuilding mode. all we need to do is add a couple of players and we have a championship.

 

Sigh. Another waste of a thread.

Assuming the CBA stays similar, and in this regard it almost certainly will, unsigned free agents count against your cap unless you renounce them. If renounced, you lose all Bird Rights to said free agent.

The cap hit an unrenounced free agent is greater than 100% of the player's previous salary, depending on years of service, etc. but not to exceed the player's max possible salary.

For Yao, this cap hit will in all likelihood be the max, or if not, very close to it. He will count as a max player against our cap until he signs. Further, the Rockets are more likely to give him an extension before he reaches free agency.

Basically, your entire premise is flawed.

 

They have tried to unload Taylor for 3 years, but no luck.

 

Delete - invoke of the NIKESTRAD rule.

 

Everyone just except the fact that we arent going to be big FA players with a Max Tmac and a soon to be Max Yao on this team. We have the foundation. Now we build via the MLE, some trades to fill some holes, and via the draft.

 

THREAD REJECTED

 

The draft will be important. We need to get a good player with some experience at either the college or international level who can fit in fairly quickly. Unfortunately our trading assets are limited. The MLE might yield us a good player if we are lucky but it's going to be difficult to acquire talent because of our salary cap position.

 

It would be nice to figure out how to shed MoT's contract a year early, so that we can be enough under the luxury tax threshold to be a player on the MLE market.

 

yeah that's what I'm hoping for. Mo's regressed..doesn't fit here.

We have foundation set. We need to replace the old guys with younger guys who will play similar roles as old guys are now. Old guys can stay as bench players..but yeah we need a shooting guard and a power forward.

 

arent there players still counting against our cap not listed on that site, such as matt maloney?

 

Let's look at this summer:

Hopefully we resign Barry and Deke to a 1-year vet. minimum contract.

We let Barrett, Bowen, and Strickland walk. They have small contracts so it really won't help that much.

Sign Antonio Daniels for the MLE and trade MoT for a TE, which I believe could actually be done. Then we deal the TE for a PF, via sign and trade, Swift or Chandler would be nice.

Then we would have Spoon's deal coming off the books the next summer just in time for Yao's deal.

Next years lineup (hopefully):

AD-Barry
Wesley-Sura
TMac-draft pick
Swift-Howard
Yao-Deke

 

Because they were under the cap including Duncan.

Now I had to go look at the numbers- under the current CBA, it's 250% for a player in Yao's situation. He'll count as the max.

Unrenounced Free Agency

I shouldn't even really provide that much.

 

Who is AD?

 

Antonio Daniels

 

I hate to be like this but why is this thread still open? Anyone who does not get that MoT is not ever going to be traded for ending contracts after all this time is living in a dream world.

MoT IS NOT GOING TO BETRADED B4 HIS LAST YEAR WHEN HE BECOMES AN ENDING CONTRACT !!!!!!!!

He is a poster child for wink,wink agreements. He has his millions and is not interested in earning them and has shown this for 3 years. That is why he is not tradeable. If he just once spent an off season in the weight room, (rumor was he did so last summer. I don't see it) he could be a real NBA 4. He has not, is not and will not be. We are stuck with him until season of 2006/7. We are stuck with 'spoon until 2005/6 when they are in the last contract year and are worth something to cap relief seeking, re-building teams. Otherwise they will bring us cap relief a year later. Fortunately our new, old guys probably have enough left in the tank to keep us cometitive for a year or two when we have some money to spend.

If all of my threads get pulled because I do not contribute then why in the heck is this re-hashed, dea horse issue allowed to remain. At least mine are fresh and invite new discussion.

 

I don't know about threads being wasted. Time is a different matter.