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Houston, New Orleans, and possibly Chicago clearing cap room

Please DL, pull the trigger and get T Jones. Call Kanter, get him out of bed, tell him to pack his bags to Houston and let's welcome T Jones at the airport. Get'er done DL.
 
I don't know why we even have a salary cap. The Salary cap is literally worthless to my knowledge. Just say.....This is the minimum you have to spend. This is the luxury tax. End of story.

Is there any penalties for going over the salary cap? Again luxury tax is different.
 
sojodave said:
Please DL, pull the trigger and get T Jones. Call Kanter, get him out of bed, tell him to pack his bags to Houston and let's welcome T Jones at the airport. Get'er done DL.
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Kanter gets paid more then Jones. They are trying to clear cap space. Not increase it.
 
Twin Towers said:
Is there any penalties for going over the salary cap? Again luxury tax is different.
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Good post.
I would like to know the answer as well
 
Duck Rodgers said:
Looks like Jeremy Lin to the Lakers. Kobe should just retire.
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I don't get the Jeremy Lin hate. Dude has produced well and I am surprised the Lakers didn't ask for T. Jones(maybe they did). Kobe isn't going to retire with all that money on board. Kobe only has himself to blame if they can't bring in any major free agents. Lin going to the Lakers though probably is the end to Carmelo joining them. Rumor is Carmelo didn't like Lin.
 
b_line said:
Guys, does anyone have Dennis Lindsay's cell phone number? Not sure if he knows about this whole fire sale thing. He is probably out mowing his lawn or something, maybe getting fry sauce with his little brother.
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He is probably still celebrating a pickup of Novak. That's 7.2 mil well spent, and with second round pick to boot, he is probably pleasuring himself right now, while other teams pickup first rounders for a lot less.
 
Twin Towers said:
I don't know why we even have a salary cap. The Salary cap is literally worthless to my knowledge. Just say.....This is the minimum you have to spend. This is the luxury tax. End of story.

Is there any penalties for going over the salary cap? Again luxury tax is different.
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I think the salary cap is working exactly how it's designed.
A hard cap is unrealistic with only 13-15 players per team. It would just be too easy to steal a player by paying him $1 more than the team has in cap space.
Look at Miami; they were able to have their Big3 but could only sign a weak bench beyond that. And they won 2 championships. With no cap, they could have signed one more great player - or a couple of very good ones - and just ran away with every title, Cleveland is having to get rid of some assets to get a Big3 (if they acquire Love). Houston has to shed some decent players to get Bosh.

I think what teams are seeing now is that they need a "Big3" + 1. You have your three all-stars, but then need 1-2 players on rookie deals to win. And the rookie can then be upped, if needed, by matching a RFA offer sheet. Cleveland may have that with James, Irving, Love and players like Thompson and Waiters. Houston has that with Bosh, Howard, Harden and Parsons.

Hard cap works in football because you have 53 players. There should be some kind of cap in baseball, IMO. Probably some structure like the NBA. Only will happen, though if we see 20 years of only the Dodgers and Yankees winning titles, which hasn't happened.
 
cowhide said:
I don't get the Jeremy Lin hate. Dude has produced well and I am surprised the Lakers didn't ask for T. Jones(maybe they did). Kobe isn't going to retire with all that money on board. Kobe only has himself to blame if they can't bring in any major free agents. Lin going to the Lakers though probably is the end to Carmelo joining them. Rumor is Carmelo didn't like Lin.
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Lin called Carmelo a big **** and 'Melo replied, "you're just jealous."
 
Borat said:
He is probably still celebrating a pickup of Novak. That's 7.2 mil well spent, and with second round pick to boot, he is probably pleasuring himself right now, while other teams pickup first rounders for a lot less.
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I agree Boston got a good deal. However, Lin has a cap hit of $8M, but is due $15M. In most drafts, late 1sts can be had for around $3M. Not that great of a deal for LA, but I guess since payroll is a "sunk cost" up to the floor, it really doesn't matter to them.

If nothing overwhelms Dennis, he may just hold on to the cap space until the trade deadline. After last summer, you can be sure Lindsey is not a sit-around-on-his-*** GM. But he's not going to jump on just any trade.
 
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