It could, or it could mean that they're 100% sure he has no offers from teams trying to win and they're just preserving any and all flexibility as long as possible again like they've done a couple of other times this offseason.
Jazz Sign Patty Mills
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I think the 3.3 mil for one year is the rock bottom salary you can offer a ten year veteran
So it's maybe the best Mills can get right now
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I'm not sure. I mean it could mean they have a salary dump with that spot in the works but don't have to cut down to 15 until the season.
So who would they cut? Someone they just signed?
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The player that gets salary dumped. You can go over 15... so not sure why they would wait for Patty. Maybe its easier or something IDK. But our @Elizah Huge added some light with a tweet
My thoughts on this....The Jazz are holding out hope they can receive a salary dump before the season. Given that there are many teams with their MLE's open, I doubt it will happen for us, but better safe than sorry. This is also true just in case we take in an extra player in any other potential deal.
The Jazz want to sign their exhibit 10 guys first before Patty....why??? If you're an exhibit 10 guy, you probably want to ink up a contract soon to know where you're going to camp and eventually the G-League. If you're Patty, you don't really care and there isn't anxiety to find a place right now. So instead of leaving roster spots open that could be taken by exhibit 10 guy, they keep Patty's spot open just in case the salary dump comes about. It's better to keep Patty in the waiting room and not miss out on an exhibit 10 guy you wanted to take a flier on. I expect we'll see a couple more exhibit 10's come through soon.
The Jazz want to sign their exhibit 10 guys first before Patty....why??? If you're an exhibit 10 guy, you probably want to ink up a contract soon to know where you're going to camp and eventually the G-League. If you're Patty, you don't really care and there isn't anxiety to find a place right now. So instead of leaving roster spots open that could be taken by exhibit 10 guy, they keep Patty's spot open just in case the salary dump comes about. It's better to keep Patty in the waiting room and not miss out on an exhibit 10 guy you wanted to take a flier on. I expect we'll see a couple more exhibit 10's come through soon.
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If I recall two years the Jazz had 17 guaranteed deals going into camp and waived Saben Lee, Stanley Johnson and Jared Butler at cutdown time.
Sorry, what? My understanding is that you can only do that with space under the cap or a sufficiently large trade exception.
We have the room MLE. Starting this year, you can acquire player through trade using MLE's.
I told u it makes no sense to sign him to fill the cap when there is an exception we could use.
This sounds very wrong and I can’t find anything about this. Can you cite your source?