What needs to happen to offer the max in 2010?

If you traded Scola/Battier/Cook for Bosh and then you only have committed:

Yao - 17.6
Ariza - 7
Bosh - Max deal
Taylor - 1
Buddinger - 1

Landry/Hayes/Brooks are team options
Lowry/White are qualifying offers
Dorsey is nonguaranteed

Yao has a player option so couldn't he opt out and then resign a deal at a lesser amount given his injury problems? Maybe wishiful thinking but we could restructure it to lower that cap amount. Didn't Duncan do something similar?

So just because I am bored a max year deal for Bosh woul be 5 years 99 Million according to this: http://raptortalk.com/2009/02/04/th...osh-if-the-right-deal-came-along.aspx?ref=rss

So let's say you traded for Bosh and signed Wade both at this amount, with starting 2010 salaries of say 16.5 each.

Yao - 17.6
Bosh - 16.5
Wade - 16.5
Ariza - 7
Landry - 3
Brooks - 2
Lowry - 3
Taylor - 1
Buddinger - 1

That's almost 67 the rest would have to be filled with minimum players, not sure what the cap will be but if you could get Yao to opt out and restructure this might be able to work.

Maybe I'm wrong but if the Celts were able to fit Allen/Pierce/Garnett at all max deals I'm sure it could be done.

 

The salary cap will likely be around $58M. The Rockets would be nowhere close to being able to offer two max contracts. Nice try, though.

 

You could let Lowry go and try to draft a backup PG. Maybe Bosh and Wade would each take a little less than the max? Like $14 million a year?

Isn't Chris Paul a FA in 2011? If Yao can't keep it together, imagine adding him to Bosh and Wade.

 

We could sign Lowry and Scola to extensions and make some of this problem disappear, couldn't we?

 

31. Why do free agents continue to count against a team's cap?

It closes another loophole. Teams otherwise would be able to sign other teams' free agents using their cap room, and then turn their attention to their own free agents using the Bird exceptions. This rule restricts their ability to do that. It doesn't close this loophole completely -- for example, in 2005 Michael Redd's free agent amount was $6 million, even though the Bucks intended to re-sign him for the maximum salary. By waiting to sign Redd last, the Bucks were able to take advantage of the difference by signing Bobby Simmons. Had they signed Redd first, they would have had no cap room to sign Simmons.
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