there were a lot of flaws in monson's article. mostly, the ill-conceived notion that if the jazz let boozer walk this summer and AK walk next summer, the jazz will have cap space. they won't. or at least, they won't have enough to sign anybody of consequence.
deron, sap and memo alone constitute 35M of salary commitments for the summer of 2011. add somewhere around 4M for wesley's second-year salary of his new contract. add money for hayward and next year's lotto pick (we're not making the playoffs if we are playing the cap space game and only signing guys who are ok with 1-year deals), so that's another 5M. now say we opt out of koufos' and miles' deals. we go into the 2011 offseason with a late lotto pick, enough cap space to sign a tier-2 guy, and a roster of deron, memo, millsap, matthews, hayward, and we fill in with minimum salary guys because we don't have any salary cap exceptions.
no way that team makes the playoffs, and no way deron sticks around through a rebuilding effort. so then in the summer of 2012 we lose deron, probably lose memo. our team is now led by millsap and the tier 2 guy we picked up in 2011, along with hayward, a couple of late lotto picks, and matthews. that team doesn't win 35 games.
