The future is bright in SLC (salary cap analysis)

[candrew]

Excellent work - we have cap space.

Here are the outstanding issues.

What FA's do you sign?
Where are your trade assets?
Jazz are 28th in salary this year. Do you realistically think they'll crack the top 20 next year? Supposedly they've been losing money the last few years.
The conversation we're having about Hayward now we're going to have about Kanter and Burks next year. And their market value is going to be harder to gauge being Corbin's inability to handle either one of them correctly.

 

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On his podcast, David Locke has addressed this issue a number of times. Now, I don't necessarily consider Locke the final word on this or anything else, but he is relatively well-informed, and according to him, there is not really any significant salary constraints at this point. We could resign Hayward at, say, $12 million without taking a big hit on the salary cap given how the current salary structure exists and the timing when we need to resign other players (Burke specifically). Based on what he says, the oft-expressed concern here that resigning Hayward at or around the above price will hamstring the Jazz financially is simply not true. Locke also seems to think that is it highly likely that Hayward resigns. Whether this is true, we'll see, but it appears that so much worrying and gnashing of teeth about salary and salary cap issues is perhaps not warranted at this point.

I highly doubt Hay resigns. He's got a good, long career in front of him.

 

[The Thriller]

Horrible post and any optimism is NOT allowed here, don't you know the rules? Everything about the Jazz is bad, the FO, the coach, the players. Any other opinion is dumb and a blind homer or working for PR.

So is Lebron going to sign?

Lol.

The money is useless if the free agents we want don't want Utah. I love how folks think that further additions of role players will take us from being a lotto team to a contender. We need a franchise player. That ain't comin via free agency.

 

[Stifle Tower]

On his podcast, David Locke has addressed this issue a number of times. Now, I don't necessarily consider Locke the final word on this or anything else, but he is relatively well-informed, and according to him, there is not really any significant salary constraints at this point. We could resign Hayward at, say, $12 million without taking a big hit on the salary cap given how the current salary structure exists and the timing when we need to resign other players (Burke specifically). Based on what he says, the oft-expressed concern here that resigning Hayward at or around the above price will hamstring the Jazz financially is simply not true. Locke also seems to think that is it highly likely that Hayward resigns. Whether this is true, we'll see, but it appears that so much worrying and gnashing of teeth about salary and salary cap issues is perhaps not warranted at this point.

Agree. Jazz really don't need to worry about tax issues until it comes time to give Favors and Hayward their next contracts. I see the Jazz bringing in a vet or two on 2 year deals. As the OP noted, Jazz could go with a couple that are in the mid-level range, or spend big on a player at $8M or so. I think Lindsey does the latter if the right guy is available. Jazz have/will have pretty good depth after the draft, but need another top player.