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Lockout is OVER!!! NBA is back according to sources

There had been talk of making amnesty available annually but that might have been excessive, fueling the perception that GMs make chronic spending mistakes
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Assuming they would still have to actually pay the guy they amnesty off the team, this could be really a huge problem. Can you imagine the Hawks amnesting Joe Johnson's 120+ million contract and still having to pay him and then have all that cap room only to tell the fans sorry we don't have any money to sign him or even worse actually spending it on another non superstar.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
More like it was a "We don't want to go to court and waste time and money" move. The threat of a lawsuit really gave the players that tid bit of leverage they needed to swing a couple of system issues in their favor.
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My point is that this was suppose to be about making the league more competitive for small market teams and it turned into money grab and possibly an amnesty system that favors large market teams with money to bid on amnesty players.
 
GoJazz said:
My point is that this was suppose to be about making the league more competitive for small market teams and it turned into money grab and possibly an amnesty system that favors large market teams with money to bid on amnesty players.
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Since it is only a one-time amnesty, then it doesn't benefit the large-market teams chronically. Just once. Still could be a big shift. Depends on how many players are amnestied.
 
GoJazz said:
My point is that this was suppose to be about making the league more competitive for small market teams and it turned into money grab and possibly an amnesty system that favors large market teams with money to bid on amnesty players.
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It is always about the money!! Stern was just using that as an excuse when talks failed. In the end the NBA is about making money. It is only the fans who care about the game.
 
I think there's a lot of things that could benefit the Jazz:

* Luxury Tax heavy penalties after year 3 of the agreement. AND the extra hit if the teams pay the LT 4 out of 5 years.
* Teams more than $4M over the LT get their MLE reduced by 1 year in length and to almost half in value.
* Bird player's raises are more than double the raises a player can get on the market. That enhances player's sticking with one team.
* Raises in contracts have been significantly reduced making them more in touch with inflation. (altough the 7.5% raise in Bird contracts seems still excessive).
* The Jazz have only 4 contracts in the books by the time the new LT rules set in. Not only that but I believe I read the Jazz will be debt free by next year (on the arena deal). Revenue sharing that isn't on the CBA is said to be increasing at least 3 fold. That puts the Jazz in position to move forward very well. About as well as any team.


Now consider Dallas that will have a 3 Year contract starting at $3M to sign Chandler and JJ Barea. They will have to amnesty Haywood and get Chandler's contract into that slot.
 
It sounds like the Jazz can have a contract with some player for 12 million a year, waive him, still pay him the 12 million, and the guy can go play for the Lakers or Miami for 2 million.
 
I believe that of the player signs with the Lakers for $2M the Jazz would have to pay him $12M - $2M = $10M.

But this kind of move would be a one time thing set to help teams in financial needs.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
https://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7287323/nba-season-run-dec-25-april-26-source-says

Says every team will play 3 games in 3 nights at least once, at most 3 times for some. This is crazy. A loss can almost be guaranteed on the third night.
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It'd be nice if a team on a third B2B played another team on a third B2B. I doubt it. I could see the Jazz playing the Heat in Miami on a third game in three nights while the heat come off a couple days rest since their last home game. That's how it usually seems to work.
 
Also, I'm going to have to put Kenneth Farried in the potential ROY talks, only because Denver is going to be missing Martin and Chandler. He is going to have a lot of minutes and rebounds.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Also, I'm going to have to put Kenneth Farried in the potential ROY talks, only because Denver is going to be missing Martin and Chandler. He is going to have a lot of minutes and rebounds.
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If he gets the minutes, he'll get his share of rebounds and blocks .. though I think ROY is a stretch.
 
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