What Teams Could Offer Jefferson the Max this Offseason?

[The Midnight]

You can't bring up "commercial reality" in one sentence and then say the Jazz are willing to throw away next season by letting Al and Paul walk.

If commercial reality is important to the Jazz, then Al will be back. The Jazz have to spend the money anyways, Al likes it here, he puts up good numbers, and the Jazz are very profitable for a small market team.

You can't have it both ways.

If commercial reality is important, Al will be the "guy" this year and the next five.

If winning a title is their goal, Al won't play anymore this year.

If you can't we that...

Actually to be honest, Cap flexibility is arguably more important now too with revenue sharing.

So if anything they'll lean towards cap flexibility (i.e., not signing a bad, long term contract for Al) rather than selling more tickets.

 

[The Midnight]

That doesn't explain why Al is playing so much and taking so many shots.

Either they like him more than Kanter/Favors or they don't. This is a business and they play the players they like.

The Jazz will not let Al and Paul walk. One will be back with a bad contract to save face. Every move the Jazz make on the court screams Al will be back.

It's a balancing act. Commerciality VS Flexibility.

Flexibility: depends on what they'll be asking - which is something in the future right?

Commerciality: we can control right now by winning.

So we keep the focus on winning, deal with flexibility when the offseason comes.

 

[green]

Hotttnickkk-keep the faith and I hope your right.

I just watched my last full Jazz game this year tonight.

I hope you're right so I can enjoy next year knowing we wasted another year of potential development.

 

[vegas]

I believe sign and trade option can only occur with a team under the cap in this new CBA!!

Yes, also the new team can offer the same amount as the previous team, so there the player doesn't have incentive to push for it.

Here is an article of who will have cap space next year. It's really complicated to figure out, due to having to re-sign current players with options first etc.
https://www.hoopsworld.com/nba-am-wholl-have-salary-cap-space-in-2013/

Teams with cap space are also very important, because they are our potential S&T suitors. And yes, we will have to give up an asset to score a TPE.

 

[GVC]

Uh...Teams over the cap can participate in Sign-and-Trades.

 

[vegas]

Uh...Teams over the cap can participate in Sign-and-Trades.

No your right..

A player is really only forced to seek a sign-and-trade if he wants to go to a team that is capped-out (or doesn't have enough cap room to give the player his full starting salary) and can't sign him directly.

https://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q91

 

[GVC]

Teams that are either over the LT apron (don't care to check, but I think that's ~$4mm above the LT line) or have used the tax-payer MLE can not participate in Sign-and-Trades. That'll only be a few teams this summer.

 

[underKANTER]

Jefferson is one of the most overrated players in the NBA. He is pretty much the next Boozer. But Jefferson does not miss games and is not the douchebag Boozer is.

But they have a very similar game with Boozer being less of a Blackhole.

Neither Boozer nor Jefferson deserve/deserved max money.

 

[Getting Traded]

I can't wait for this board to explode when the Jazz resign Big Al to the max. The melt down will be epic.

I will defect and start rooting for another team despite 20 years of Jazz loyalty.

 

[green]

Jefferson is one of the most overrated players in the NBA. He is pretty much the next Boozer. But Jefferson does not miss games and is not the douchebag Boozer is.

But they have a very similar game with Boozer being less of a Blackhole.

Neither Boozer nor Jefferson deserve/deserved max money.

Boozer is a much better player than Jefferson.

But, they both suck.