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Updated 2/19 - Acquired Shelvin Mack.

Current Cap Space: $5,182,127.00
Maximum Cap Space: $5,182,127.00 (if all options/guarantees were not picked up, all FAs renounced, no Draft Picks were to be signed this season, and all Exceptions were renounced)
Luxury Tax Space: $19,853,399.00
Tax Apron Space: $23,853,399.00
2016-2017 Maximum Cap Space: $34,895,769.00

How I got there:

Guaranteed Contracts (15): Trevor Booker, Trey Burke, Alex Burks, Dante Exum, Derrick Favors, Rudy Gobert, Gordon Hayward, Rodney Hood, Joe Ingles, Christapher Johnson, Trey Lyles, Shelvin Mack, Raul Neto, Tibor Pleiss, Jeff Withey

Partial/Non-Guaranteed Contracts (0): None

Free Agents (0): None

First Round Draft Pick Holds (0): None

Carried Money (10): $6,178.00 (Eric Atkins), $75,000.00 (Treveon Graham), $49,709.00 (Erick Green 1), $49,709.00 (Erick Green 2), $947,276.00 (Grant Jerrett), $362,878.00 (Elijah Millsap), $75,000.00 (J.J. O'Brien 1), $30,888.00 (J.J. O'Brien 2), $11,144.00 (Phil Pressey), $50,000.00 (E.J. Singler)

Unsigned Second Round Picks (5): Mario Austin, Peter Fehse, Shan Foster, Olivier Hanlan, Ante Tomic

Exceptions: Room Exception at $2,814,000.00. No Bi-Annual Exception due to being under the Cap. No TPEs.

Excellent write-up, Smitty, and I agree with everything you've written.

I will be curious to see what happens with our non-Kanter capspace...if we try to sign a long-term piece, or short-term vets like we did with Booker, or sell it like we did with Biedrins/R-Jeff/Novak.

I would love to sign Joe Johnson. Getting this team playoff experience has to be a priority, and I think Johnson would have a lot of value in terms of his scoring and ability to mentor Alec and Hayward who have a lot of similar attributes.

babyjax13 wrote:I would love to sign Joe Johnson. Getting this team playoff experience has to be a priority, and I think Johnson would have a lot of value in terms of his scoring and ability to mentor Alec and Hayward who have a lot of similar attributes.

Joe Johnson isn't a FA and I can't see the Jazz willingly taking on 24+ million for him next year. I'm sure Brooklyn would be happy to dump him for almost anything at this point. Even a high protected 2nd that will never convey.

Yeah, I have always liked JJ a lot and would be happy to have him as a veteran presence/scorer for a year...but his salary makes it quite impossible. We don't even have crap expirings to send back as filler any more.

Updated OP on 3/30 with recent transactions and updated projections.