1. Am I reading this right? That would say they could pick up someone with 5 years left on his contract, waive him, and not take the cap hit? 2. If this were truly the case, I'm sure the Rockets would use their exception to take White off their hands if it came attached with the #3 overall pick in the draft. Use him as Yao's backup for a year then he goes away, and gives the team the ability to move Cato somewhere where he's wanted/needed.
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Charlotte's strategy is to take young guys and to keep their cap as low as possible and build the team through the draft and free agency. That means that they're going to take the following: 1) Young guys with potential and low contracts. Of course, there won't be many of these in the draft. 2) Players that they are compensated to take. i.e. Chad Ford's example of them getting a first round pick to take Jahadi White and another to take Elden Campbell. 3) Restricted Free Agents or players with team options next year. I don't think that the Rockets will make anyone available in the draft that would interest Charlotte. I also don't believe that we're going to give them a first round pick to take a player off of our hands. So, how is their draft going to help the Rockets? Are you thinking that somebody gives Charlotte a pick to select a player and then the Bobcats turn around and trade the player to Houston? In a scenario like that, it would be alot easier for the other two teams to just make a deal and not use Charlotte as a middle man. If a team is willing to give up a first round pick just to get Charlotte to take a player, then that pretty much means that that player is untradeable, so I don't think that the Rockets would be interested in any of those guys. Charlotte is kind of like the Texans were a couple of years ago. They want to go with young guys and build the team for the future, but they don't want to get too good too soon. They need those high draft picks for the first few years. Sure, they'll be pretty bad next year, but if Ford's scenario came true, they'd have 3 first rounders next year,a high pick the following year and tons of cap space. That's a pretty good foundation for the future.
Nike, 1. Yes there is no cap hit, but you do still have to pay the salary. So, Charlotte can claim White and release him. He wouldn't hit their cap, but they'd still have to pay him his guarenteed $6.2M, so there is a cost to doing that. And of course, if the player had multiple years left on the deal, then it gets even more expensive to do that. 2. Yeah, I think Chad Ford is reaching a bit when he speculates that Phoenix would give up their own pick. Phoenix owns several first round picks over the next few years, so I'd have to believe that they'd trade one of those instead of their own. Of course, if Ford was correct, then I'd agree that I'd be more than willing to use our exception to help them out.
yeah, i had to read the jahidi thing a few times to make sure i wasn't crazy. phoenix is going to give up the 3rd freaking overall pick in the draft just for jahidi's cap room? unless kobe actually says i'm signing with the suns beforehand, that is way too much to pay. like NIKE said, i'd gladly help them out with the TE for that price. so after a night of sleeping on it, i realized charlotte just waives whoever they want, still pays them, and whoever picks them up can just pay that guy some minimum salary like the way it works for every other team now. man, they really could get a nice amount of picks and a ton of cap room out of this. true, they have to suck massively to do it, but maybe that'll be worth it. does their cap immediately go up to 100% of the cap in year 2 or is it phased in? i'm assuming it goes straight up and if so they'd have caproom all over the place to sign people. unlike other bad teams with cap room, they won't have a history of being terrible or anything and might offer the prospect of being a team's first legitimate star and that could be attractive to FA's possibly.
