Deng's an All-Star, CJ Watson wants in on 3-point shootout, Chicago won't be hosting anytime soon,

any all-star bonuses in Deng’s deal when I heard the news of his selection. I didn’t know how it would carry over to the future years as ‘guaranteed’ bumps or ‘need-to-duplicate the selection’ bumps in his salary. Curious to know what percentage increase that would be.

Also, I think the Bulls know they could pull off some trades to get under the tax if they don’t pull off a deal to acquire a superstar. Easy to dump a contract like Korver which is only 500k guaranteed next year (although he is playing well of late) or an expiring deal to avoid the tax.

has been in affect for at least a week. So the bulls management indeed did have the time to wave scal/lucas….plus i thought bonuses were given after the year was over.

Note that the incentives are classified based on the prior season, not on an assessment of the current season.

and then theres this paragraph….

There are three types of allowable incentives: performance incentives, academic/physical achievement incentives, and extra promotional incentives. The latter two types of incentives are always included in team salary. Performance incentives are classified as either “likely to be achieved” or “not likely to be achieved,” and are only included in team salary if they are “likely to be achieved.” The league office determines what is likely and what is not. Their guideline is whether the criterion was achieved in the previous season. For example, if a player had seven assists per game the previous season, then an incentive based on seven assists per game would probably be classified as “likely to be achieved,” but an incentive based on eight assists per game would probably be classified as “not likely to be achieved.” Unlikely bonuses in any season are limited to 25% of the player’s salary in that season. In the first year of a contract the base salary, likely bonuses and unlikely bonuses must all fit within the salary cap or exception. The league also determines a team’s available cap room by adding in the unlikely bonuses for all players who signed that season. This prevents a team from signing multiple players to lower salaries but with lots of unlikely bonuses, and therefore committing to more salary than it has cap room to offer.

So because deng didnt make all-star last year, his contract probably still didnt have all-star as a “likely to be achieved” status, and because of that whatever salary increase would never be put into this years contract. But because he made all-star this year, next year the salary will be reformed to include that bonus, and a “likely to be achieved” stipulation. I think….if im reading it right….

https://webfiles.uci.edu/lcoon/cbafaq/salarycap.htm#Q64

sounds potentially dangerous.

visual evidence of LBJ choking, condensed into a ten second clip.

Hamilton update: Thibodeau said Rip Hamilton, who is dealing with an undisclosed family issue and working through leg injuries, would return to the team "shortly."

link

and kind of wanted to see them play better, because I thought the league is a little more interesting when they’re good. Then this Jeremy Lin thing happened, and today every other story is Kobe vs. Lin, and now I want to take that guy who felt sorry for the Knicks, and throw him down a sizeable hill.

The universe is so unfair

https://twitter.com/#!/LuolDeng9/statuses/167693798716088320

i’m really amused watching hollinger get hammered on twitter.

:D

Glorious

but i heard on the radio just now that mirotic and gar were supposed to be on espn1000 at 4….its possible it was just gar, That Jirko guy likes to say mirtoic’s name. Also they talked about how before luol deng was drafted John Paxson showed carmen DeFalco and Silvy video footage of luol deng playing at duke and said that Paxson had always been high on Deng. I know theres many here who, for whatever reason, hate Paxson, but…dude knows how to draft

especially when most of the people there are hollywood as hell