JLop wrote:heater4life wrote:gom wrote:
You can sign him in July. You will have about 12M cap space because the salary cap is changing and you don't have to resign Shannon Brown.
Sure you can, technically speaking, but again, will he accept 12M/year? With his output,age, and potential? Highly unlikely. Even if it were the case, he takes the pay cut, it comes at the expense of Deng and Cole. As you have to renounce their rights to use the cap space.
This is only an example: let's say that we sign Greg Monroe to a four years contract for the amount of $64 million ($16 million per year). In the year 2015 Monroe will receive $10 million, in the year 2016 Monroe will receive $16 million, in the year 2017 Monroe will receive $18 million, and in the year 2018 Monroe will receive $20 million. It might not be the best example, but at least it will give you an idea.
The Heat cannot sign Monroe unless many people take paycuts and they renounce rights to some key players. Hence trade ideas. End of story.
Your trying to explain something to me that im already aware of and thats irrelevant to an initial signing. You and gom need to brush up on how the CBA and cap works a bit.
I dont mean it as an offense; were just having redundant discussion on things that dont work under the cap.
Edit: Also, your making up numbers for the contract you illustrated. Annual raises in the NBA are fixed to a certain percentage, you cant raise a salary from 10M to 16M the following year like in your example.