So with that i bring you our cap situation.
Toronto Raptors Salaries:
Jose Calderon$9,780,992 (10% Trade Kicker)
Andrea Bargnani$9,250,000 (5% Trade Kicker, & Performance Incentives)
Leandro Barbosa$7,600,000 (player option, not yet exercised)
Amir Johnson$5,500,000 (5% Trade Kicker, Performance Bonuses listed as unlikely)
Linas Kleiza$4,605,000
Jerryd Bayless$3,042,280
DeMar Derozan$2,625,000
Ed Davis$2,063,040
James Johnson$1,833,120
Solomon Alabi$830,000
= $47,129,432
* Without our #5 pick
Our pick has a cap hold that will count against this number
Our Draft Pick (#5)
$3,248,112 (Demarcus Cousins salary last year)
= $50,377,544
* Barbosa opting out
= 42,777,544
Possible Cap Space Under Old Cap (58 million)
10,870,568
Possible Cap Space Under New Cap (62 million)
14,870,568
Cap Holds:
Sonny Weems:$1,091,100
Joey Dorsey$1,091,100
Alex Ajincia$2,263,409
Julian Wright$8,574,171
Reggie Evans$10,160,000
what this means is if we want to make Sonny, Dorsey a RFA we extend the QO to them of that amount. Obviously Evans, Wright wont be getting that much but Dorsey and Weems i think are 2 players that we could extend a QO offer to.
Our Free Agents:
Sonny Weems
Joey Dorsey
Alex Ajincia
Julian Wright
Reggie Evans
Conclusion:
$50,504,072 is the number were looking at assuming Barbosa picks up his PO and no trades are made. Going off this years salary cap numbers that would leave us with $7,495,928 million roughly to spend in free agency. That means though letting Dorsey, Weems go and not extending a QO to them. Thats also not factoring in the new CBA, the salary cap could be different but as of right now
$7,495,928 is how much cap space we currently have. This means Marc Gasol, Deandre Jordan, Greg Oden,Tyson Chandler or even Samuel Dalembert are all unrealistic baring a trade to free up more room. W.Chandler/Gren/Young might be options at that price but i dont know if those teams will let them go for that. If you have any questions regarding the CBA, trades, etc ill try and help the best i can.
Things To Remember:
1.Until July 1st comes around when dealing with trades the rule is players salary X 1.25 (or 125%) + 100,000 which is the maximum you can take back in a trade. Example trading Leandro Barbosa (7,600,000) X 1.25 + 100,000 = 9,600,000 which is the maximum salary we can take back in that deal. Meaning we would add 2 million maximum to our total salary which brings down our cap space. Our we could increase it by taking the minmum amount back for example in the Barbosa case it would be $5,980,000 giving us about 1.8 more in cap space.
2.We still have the Bosh Trade Exception which has $9,055,960 and with that you can acquire a player making that salary + 100,000 meaning the most we can take back would be $9,155,960. This expires July 10th, 2011 (one year to the date of acquired which i believe was July 10 2010).
Links:
Sham Sports
http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages/Trade Idea Thread
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1111838Draft Thread:
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1113961Free Agents Position-by-position:
http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=18192ESPN Free Agent List:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/stor ... ents-11-12ESPN Trade Machine
http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachineReal GM Trade Checker
http://basketball.realgm.com/tradechecker
Labor Negotiation News:
Possible No S&Ts in New CBA
The league likewise has proposed to eliminate sign-and-trades in the next labor agreement. In a provision conceived by the league to inspire loyalty, teams are presently allowed to pay their own free agents more than anyone else. But that ability to offer a contract one year longer than the competition often has resulted in marquee free agents getting traded to the team they choose in free agency after first signing a larger contract with their original team, as seen with both James and Bosh last summer.
Possible 62 million Cap
Adrian Wojnarowski reports that David Stern is targeting a $62 million salary cap in negotiations.It seems like the owners have backed off of their demand for a hard cap, which is positive news because the players would never accept that. The "flex cap" would allow certain teams to go exceed the limit or operate beneath it, so it should be interesting to see where negotiations move from this point. Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said the new flex cap
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