Salary Cap Stuff

[Darkwing Duck]

Just to give an example:

The Jazz may be able to to add a big money free agent in a sign-and-trade who wouldn't fit under the cap even if all the Jazz's cap holds and unguaranteed players were renounced (there would have to be outgoing salary, of course). The Jazz could then turn around, and still add Tomic with the MLE. So, effectively, The Tomic/big name player or free agent equation isn''t necessarily an either/or. The Jazz could even potentially keep Booker, add Tomic, and still pull off a maneuver like this to add another player through a trade or sign-and-trade.

Jazz don't have the contracts to get to 150%, though, unless you trade Hayward or Favors. Possibly Burks. That might be the only way. Add Burke and Burks and you get 11.8M. Can get a 17M player for that. That'll work in sign and trade.

 

[gregbroncs]

We are already at the salary floor... we still have room under the cap to spend. We don't have to spend anything else. You will likely see one more Cotton like signing, because the salary can be used to match contracts in a trade during draft time. The player can be cut for nothing if no matching is needed.

bad assumption by me. I assumed he meant floor when he said we had to spend it. I didn't look up the #'s.

 

[GVC]

Jazz don't have the contracts to get to 150%, though, unless you trade Hayward or Favors. Possibly Burks. That might be the only way. Add Burke and Burks and you get 11.8M. Can get a 17M player for that. That'll work in sign and trade.

It depends on how much these fringe guys are signing for on this unguaranteed deals, but, yeah, you'd pretty much need to include someone with a decent salary to do all I listed. It's not that realistic.

 

[GVC]

The starting salary on a max contract for a player with 0-6 years of service time should be about $15.5mil next season. Teams over the cap need to send out at least $10.5mil to receive $15.5mil in a trade.

Alec alone will make ~$9.8mil next season, just $700k less than the salary needed to take back $15.5mil. Trey + Booker will make $7.4mil next season, about $3mil short. If Kawhi, Jimmy Butler or Draymond Green (or not) could be had for some combination of the above and unguaranteed players, it'd be HUGE. The Jazz could potentially have the salary to take on two big free agents in sign-and-trades, and then use the MLE on Tomic.