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https://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7026680/welcome-amnesty-20-nba

According to the Oregonian's John Canzano last week, the owners have already decided to include an amnesty clause in the yet-signed labor agreement. The big difference: Teams can pick one player to waive, then pay off the rest of his contract … only this time, that player's deal won't count against the salary cap (not just the luxury tax).
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Simmons and Abrams are both predicting the Jazz would use the new amnesty clause to dump Memo:

UTAH JAZZ

Abrams: Mehmet Okur, who suffered through an injury-plagued 2010-11 and would save the Jazz $10.9 million in 2011-12 by being Curry Cured.

Simmons: Agreed. Could more things be falling Utah's way? It fleeced New Jersey with the Deron Williams trade, won a top-three lottery pick and shed Andrei Kirilenko's onerous salary, now it's dumping Memo's last year … oh, wait, we're not going to have an NBA season. I keep forgetting.
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Memo is the only one that makes any sense here, and that is only if the Jazz have serious designs on the free agency market in a very immediate way (Marc Gasol?).

One interesting possibility is Memo just re-signing for the league minimum for a year as part of the waive (if that's permissible).
 
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NUMBERICA said:
One interesting possibility is Memo just re-signing for the league minimum for a year as part of the waive (if that's permissible).
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it was not permissible last time:

Q: Can a team re-sign its own amnesty player at a later date?

A: No. Amnesty players are strictly prohibited from re-signing with the team that released them for the life of the terminated contract.

The league also snuffed out the possibility that teams might try to trade around this stipulation by including the June 21 deadline for players to be eligible to be released via the amnesty clause.

Let's say Dallas wanted to trade Michael Finley to Toronto in exchange for Jalen Rose, with the Mavericks and Raptors agreeing to use their amnesty slot to release each player so both could sign back with their original teams at a reduced price. Because such a trade couldn't be completed before June 21, neither player could be released with amnesty, meaning that the Mavericks and Raptors would get no tax break from such an arrangement.
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https://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc&id=2112912
 
And for the record, I am not a fan of there being an amnesty provision such as this (besides that it clearly shows just how full of hot air and bull **** the owners are, anyway). It rewards the richest of the owners and the most hapless of management.
 
Who would not have used this kind of clause on Ak. I would have and I like Ak. He is a good player but his contract stunk.
 
If the Jazz could have dumped AK's contract under an Amnesty clause a year ago, they would probably have been more able and willing to keep Wesley Matthews.
 
There should be a prediction thread about what players around the league will be subject to this when the season starts. I think it is obvious that Rashard Lewis and Gilbert Arenas would be guys that fall into that category. Any other guesses?
 
NUMBERICA said:
Memo is the only one that makes any sense here, and that is only if the Jazz have serious designs on the free agency market in a very immediate way (Marc Gasol?).

One interesting possibility is Memo just re-signing for the league minimum for a year as part of the waive (if that's permissible).
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I agree it would probably be Memo, but remember a guy named Raja?
 
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