Its supply and demand. Supply(decent free agents) is low and demand(teams with significant cap space, and its alot of teams) is high, you have to pay more to get the FA you want rather then have another team sign him.
"Only" 4 years and 23 million are guranteed apparently. There is an opt out after year 4. Also, if he doesn't play 60 games in year 5, I believe year 6 becomes a team option as well? Can't rememebr exactly what I read, but it's durely not all guaranteed. They are signing McDyess to the 6M in capspace they had, and using Rasheed's bird rights to sign him to whatever he wants, which they can do even if over the cap.
Quite obviously, CD was ahead of his time by giving marginal players 6 year contracts. Who knew that he was changing the face of the game?
Here's another angle: With the bargaining agreement, there's presumably only so much money that in the aggregate can be thrown at FA's. So doesn't this mean that these insane contracts getting tossed around are going to soak up the available funds, leaving some extreme bargains among the leftovers? As someone pointed out in another thread, this is pretty much how we got JJ at such a good price last year. So maybe CD has learned a lesson after all, and there's someone out there that he doesn't think is going to get snapped up with one of the premium contracts.
No they're not. Detroit has about 33 million committed for next year. In order to be able to resign Sheed with his Bird rights they must keep him unrenounced (along with QO for Mehmet Okur, and I think Mike James)- he's counting against the cap for the max right now, which would put Detroit at about 45 mill in committed salary- clearly not enough to sign McDyess with cap space. Since they're around the cap level with Sheed unrenounced, they still have use of their MLE. This was a full MLE deal. ------ I still like to think this is the league reacting in frenzy to the combo of Yao and TMac.
I think most people, if they take a step back from the criticism he's faced in his career (what, with his HUGE prior contract), would have to feel that Juwan is well worth the MLE he got last year. It's just that, with the presence of Mo Taylor, Juwan does not give us much that we didn't already have. The five years remaining on his deal isn't great, either.
Gives us better rebounding, thats about it, when compared to Mo taylor. They're both equally consistent shooters, but supposedly Juwan has more post up moves. If we had to get rid of one of the two, I'd say Mo.
