I'm not one of those sal. cap know it alls. I'm sure its been discussed before; but if the Rox don't trade Rice, and he is not resigned, what happens to his cap space? From what I believe it really doesn't help it any and we will be in the same cap situation with one less player. If this is true then they are almost forced to trade him if they want to improve our cap value. Now I'm not sure so can someone help me out with this. Is it time to bag Rice? If this is the case we should be tring to get someone really good and not just try to trade for equal value like KT for Posey and then still lose the player. What I mean is we will have to get someone with high talent but with an even higher price tag in order for the team to give them up(overpaid or highly paid). The reason we shouldn't trade for equal value is if we are to be a playoff team this year we will not have a 1st round draft pick and will be stuck in a standstill sitution for a few years as far as improvement. BUT who's avalible that would honestly help? And I would rather have the player to start training camp instead of trading sometime during the season. But I don't matter
We may just keep Rice. Why? Veteran influence and great big cap savings next summer when some really good FAs are available.
I get this weird feeling that we'll be trading Rice for Camby... But that'll give us another logjam at the 4, and he never stays healthy. I hope it doesn't happen, and I'm not sure if the contracts match up, but I think Denver would do it, and I think JVG and CD might do it. I hope this doesn't happen. I wonder if the acquisition of Posey has made Wesley Person expendable? West loves Miller, Gasol occaisionally plays the 3, and a few articles have said that JP is a likely starter. Again, I don't know if the contracts match up, but it's worth a gander... I don't know, I don't know anything really, just speculating here.
But if I'm not wrong he will be off the books but we will not have any more cap room to sign any free agents. We will still be at the lux tax threshold. If thats the case then we better trade him o we just wasted alot of money on a way overpaid, overthehill, allwaysinjured player.
If we keep all of Rice's money, we'll still be over the salary cap. However, we will move away from the luxury tax. I'd expect to see Rice move for a player AND an expiring contract. We need to shave 2-3 million to avoid lux tax., we can pick up a player with the rest at 6-7 mil. That is, unless there's a special opportunity, like SAR or Sheed, where the player coming back also has a really short contract.
Right, Steve's max contract kicks in next year and he will take up the cap space. Ifwe move Rice, we can get another player, but that player's salary will hit us the next year when/if the luxury tax kicks in. I think that Les does not want to pay that tax. I know that that is 2 years away, but would not be surprised if Les is thinking that far ahead.
Are you serious? I don't even think they can trade him until midway through the season because they just signed him. Anyways, he is their present and future, you are gonna be waiting forever.
I think it is plain the team is best served by keeping Rice and letting his contract pass away. We didn't keep Posey because we're on the edge of the luxury tax. We will continue to lose our up-and-coming players to luxury tax fears until we reduce payroll. Rice's $10 million will be some nice relief in that regard. If we don't trade Mo Taylor and Kelvin Cato, they'll probably walk without compensation in a couple of years as well.
