Magilla_Gorilla wrote:MGB8 wrote:DerrickRose025 wrote:Rick Reeves @NBAReeves 32s
MT “@IraHeatBeat: Heat's use of exceptions is a game-changer with Bosh. There no longer is any need to ask him to take significantly less.
I don't understand this. The big 3 opted out, right? That means that the Heat were under the cap.
If I remember right from our discussions about Mirotic, all the exceptions count towards the cap.
Looking again at Coons FAQ, that seems right. (
http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q26)
The question then would go, for resigning guys, how far over could the Heat go. I guess that would be the "apron" of 4 million over the Tax line? (
http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q28)
But then you have the issue of "cap holds" on the big 3, since in order to resign them and go over the cap, the Heat will need to exercise "Bird rights." (
http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q37 and
http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q38).
If, somehow, 2 of the big 3 got their bird rights renounced to eliminate the cap holds, but still signed, and everything was timed just right... maybe?
If the Heat use the Full MLE they will be hard capped at 81 million.
The Heat could re-sign the big 3 at max for each and they'd still be under the apron.
I get that (now), but how much room would they have to sign any non-Heat free agents?
The cap holds are supposed to get in the way of that, and if I read Coons FAQ right, the cap holds are a whopping 150% of the last salary - 30 million a piece for the big 3.
So I'm wondering how they would have to time things to sign anyone using something other than the exceptions or minimums. Lets say Wade takes a deal starting at 11M (50 over 4 years). Haslem resigns for 4 years, 8 million, 2M per. You have McBob at 5.7, Cole at 2.1, Granger at 2.1, Shabbaz at 1. 24 million is, total. And assuming 4 other players at the minimum, another 2 million is "held" - 26 million, right?
You still have no cap space because of Bosh and Wade. Now, if Bosh leaves, then you have Lebron's 30 million dollar cap hold + the 26 million for everyone else, plus 30... that gives you 7 million to find a replacement for Bosh?
That's my big question - now that they've signed McBob and Granger using the exceptions, do they really have room for bringing in anyone else? Because of the cap hold, the only way they can go over the cap is if one of the big 3 "signs last," and given the size of the cap holds, that eliminates the ability to sign other teams veterans unless all 3 take big pay cuts... but then they can't use the MLE to go over the cap because they have already been under it?
