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Contract Considerations Heading Into the Season
With Jerry Zgoda's post last night about Corey Brewer and all the talk about Ryan Gomes' contract, there's a good deal of cap consideration for the Wolves before reaching free agency next year (or even this year's trade deadline, for that matter). As always, you can find Wolves cap information at...
CBA CLE Basics
I recently went to a Continuing Legal Education course put on the Suns. In addition to getting one of the fifteen hours I need every year, I got this picture, a sales pitch and I heard Steve Kerr use the phrase "salary dump." I thought I'd take a minute to pass on some of the highlights of the...
How the Wizards can use the lower-than-expected 2010 cap projection to their advantage
So by now you have all probably heard about the NBA issuing a memo to teams telling them to expect a significantly lower salary cap and luxury tax level in 2010/11 (that's next year, not this year). The numbers aren't pretty, as the cap could fall to as low as $50.4 million, with the luxury tax...
Flexibility for later
There are few buzzwords that annoy me more in sports than "flexibility." Taken literally, it means providing yourselves, as a sports team, the chance to improve your roster later on even while following the parameters of the salary cap. Taken figuratively, it can be a cynic's way of attacking a...
Six reasons why the Wizards aren't looking to cut salary when they put the fifth pick on the market
Dear writers and fans of opposing teams; I've noticed in my daily reading that some of you are still set on the Wizards using their fifth pick solely to get under the luxury tax. I don't necessarily come here to say you folks are dead-wrong, because none of us are prophets. It's true that the...
NY Times: A Conversation With Josh Childress
Augmenting the story Ben linked to in this FanShot, Pete Thamel conducts the lengthiest interview with Childress I've yet seen published. A taste... WHAT’S YOUR CONTRACTUAL SITUATION WITH THE HAWKS? The interesting thing is that I’m on their books for like $10 million. It makes it...
Payroll musings and avoiding the luxury tax in the future
Editor's Note: Bumping this back to the top for further discussion. -PM Warning: Long post One of the biggest criticisms of our offseason is that we killed our salary cap and luxury tax flexibility for a team that is not quite a championship contender. The idea is that we're basically stuck with...
So whadda we have to spend?
As mentioned in this FanPost, the salary cap and luxury tax figures became official last night. For our purposes, the only number that matters is the luxury tax. It will be at 71.15 million next year. To review: In theory, the luxury tax does not serve as a hard cap. Teams are allowed to pass...
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