Darkwing Duck
Well-Known Member
Granted, I'm not the best at the cap rules, but why couldn't we exceed the cap? Isn't that what the luxury tax is in place for? For teams who exceed the cap? With that being the case, we most certainly could exceed the cap regardless of MLEs or biannual exceptions.
And if it gets us one step closer to a championship - via this (increasingly) hypothetical Superstar Free Agent X - then so be it. Again, and maybe I'm alone on this, I don't really care if we go into luxury tax thresholds.
You cannot exceed the salary cap with free agents you don't have Bird rights to, namely other teams' free agents (Wesley Matthews is an exception; no one has Bird rights for him). Right now the Jazz are going to be about 4-6 million under. Subract the 3 or so million that the ninth pick's cap hold will be, and the Jazz will be about 2 million under the cap. This means the Jazz can ONLY spend 2 million dollars on free agents. The ONLY exceptions to this are Kyle Korver, Carlos Boozer, and Kyrylo Fesenko, all of whom the Jazz can offer up to the max salary scaled to years played in the league.