Jazz to release Shaq Harrison

[NAOS]

It appears it can, since @Handlogten's Heros kind of runs (or at least sets the emotional tone for) this place.

It sounds like Hearsky’s mom helps, fwiw

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Jazz should try to pick up GR3, imo. He's a 3D wing who is a couple inches taller/longer than Royce.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Chances are, someone who can help the team will get waived prior to the deadline.

I'm wondering what the front office deems the greatest need at the moment.

Then wait for them to be available.

This isn’t a basketball decision. But yeah, the Jazz are gonna go $45 milli in the hole next year.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Okay so we are 1.2M above the tax... If someone picks up Shaq we are $430k away... only way to drop below would be to trade a player making more than the min. I think we could nab a guy that was drafted in second round through a trade and sneak under.

Doesn't make sense to be barely in the tax... either fill out the roster or get under the tax. Anything in between in the worst kind of penny pinching.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

My prediction is that Trent Forrest is converted to an NBA contract.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

My prediction is that Trent Forrest is converted to an NBA contract.

After we do the 10 day dance that would make sense. Not sure it gets us all the way out of the tax.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I guess if no one claims Shaq then we will be in the tax no matter what... basically. So that is something to watch.

 

[The Jazz Wonderbra]

Okay so we are 1.2M above the tax... If someone picks up Shaq we are $430k away... only way to drop below would be to trade a player making more than the min. I think we could nab a guy that was drafted in second round through a trade and sneak under.

Doesn't make sense to be barely in the tax... either fill out the roster or get under the tax. Anything in between in the worst kind of penny pinching.

I doubt that we trade any of our top 9 rotational players through Miye.

And our lowest cost 2 way players can't make any less (Jarrell Brantley and Trent Forrest).

So that means, if we are going to get under the cap we are talking about dumping:

Elijah Hughes ($898,000)
Juwan Morgan ($1,517,000)
Udoka Azibuike ($1,977,000)

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So called "capoligists" out there... If Udoka qualifies as an injured player exception does that mean that part of his salary doesn't count against the cap? Or are we still on the books?

 

[idiot]

My prediction is that Trent Forrest is converted to an NBA contract.

If so, I think it will be for basketball reasons. I don't see how it helps in any way financially.

(Edit: I should have said that it wouldn't help with the luxury tax, I think. If we picked up Forrest and nobody else and then didn't replace him as a two-way, then I suppose it would save a couple hundred thousand of 2-way salary, perhaps.)

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I doubt that we trade any of our top 9 rotational players through Miye.

And our lowest cost 2 way players can't make any less (Jarrell Brantley and Trent Forrest).

So that means, if we are going to get under the cap we are talking about dumping:

Elijah Hughes ($898,000)
Juwan Morgan ($1,517,000)
Udoka Azibuike ($1,977,000)

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So called "capoligists" out there... If Udoka qualifies as an injured player exception does that mean that part of his salary doesn't count against the cap? Or are we still on the books?

But we can't just dump them. We need to get to 13 players so you'd need to flip Morgan for a guy who was drafted in the second round this year that has a salary similar to Hughes. It has to be a guy taken in the second round because a rookie that wasn't drafted has the same cap hit as a minimum deal (there is a reason this is the case).

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Only way to do this is if Udoka took less than 120% of his rookie salary scale. No idea how to confirm this.

 

[The Jazz Wonderbra]

But we can't just dump them. We need to get to 13 players so you'd need to flip Morgan for a guy who was drafted in the second round this year that has a salary similar to Hughes. It has to be a guy taken in the second round because a rookie that wasn't drafted has the same cap hit as a minimum deal (there is a reason this is the case).

Of course. Morgan for a 2nd round pick for example. Then sign a minimum salary player (a la Trent). That saves close to $1 million right?