Is Morey engaging Chicago in a stare down contest for Carloid Boozer?

It does, we are over the cap. We still have our full MLE though, assuming Papanikolaou will sign for BAE.

 

I think I get it now.... So we gained a TPE for Asik and Lin, which kept us over the cap and allowed us to keep our MLE and BAE? So we can't put a bid in on Boozer because we are not under the cap.

 

because MLE is reserved for teams over the cap. we are over teh cap and thus have the MLE.

to say that we have to stay UNDER the cap to hold on to the MLE couldn't be further from correct

 

correct !!

also MLE and BAE count against cap...

if you add MLE/BAE..player salaries and all trade exceptions and are still UNDER the cap..then you lose your exceptions.

 

Gotcha. That's what i thought, but then I end up seeing conflicting reports which makes me second guess what I thought I knew.

 

Dwight Howard $21,436,271
James Harden $14,728,884
Trevor Ariza $8,600,000
Jeremy Lin TPE $8,500,000
Alonzo Gee $3,000,000
Terrence Jones $1,618,680
Donatas Motiejunas $1,483,920
Scotty Hopson $1,450,878
Josh Powell $1,310,286
Troy Daniels Cap Hold $1,016,482
Patrick Beverley $915,243
Isaiah Canaan $816,482
Robert Covington $816,482

Total = $65,693,568

That was our roster before signing Dorsey, Adrian, Capela, Johnson, Papanikolaou and re-signing Daniels. We have always been over the cap, therefor preserving our MLE, BAE and TPE.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Nine teams, by my count, have enough cap space to put in post-amnesty bids for Carlos Boozer: ATL, CHA, HOU, LAL, MIL, ORL, PHI, PHX &amp; UTAH</p>&mdash; Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/statuses/489272192509558785">July 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
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What is the order? Same as the draft?

 

I thought we couldn't bid because we are not under the cap? What gives? This is confusing...

 

I think it's blind bidding; highest initial offer wins Boozer

 

I can see HOU,CHA,ORL and PHX putting in bids.

 

LAL PHX CHA and us are the only ones i think would put in a bid for him

 

His count is wrong

 

This is false because we are operating above the cap. We could go under if we wanted to but it doesn't make sense to do that.

 

We have cap room, but are operating over the cap (by retaining the Lin TPE) in order to make use of the MLE and BAE

 

IIRC players picked via amnesty are not tradable for the for a year.