cpfsf wrote:GDG wrote:cpfsf wrote::o
Horrible for the Wolves. Hinrich is nothing like the player he once was. Ridnour is paid half Hinrich's salary.
Hinrich has only one year left on his contract after this season though... it's not
that bad.
I think it might be worse for the Wizards.
Any remaining cap space that we could have had would be spent on Hinrich. That's 4,320,000 that could have been spent on another free agent. Darko Milicic by comparison is making 4,325,000 this year. That potential free agent may or may not be as good as Darko, but the fact remains that we're losing both Luke and our cap space.
First off, I'm not responding because I really want to make a case to get Hinrich. I could just see the possible benefit of having a versatile, defensive, veteran guard in Hinrich for a year and a half.
So here are my meandering ramblings in term of his contract. I am by no means a salary and cap expert. I am actually usually a little confused about it.
But in my mind, we would be trading Hinrich for Ridnour straight up and taking the 4-5 mil cap space hit next year. If we can manage to include another piece in the trade (Pekovic, Flynn, or even Ellington or Hayward), that would lighten next years cap hit.
So, in that mode of thinking, I could see the merit of adding Hinrich (just because of defense alone) if we were able to get him for the price of... lets just say Ridnour and Flynn. Washington would have a veteran backup to Wall and a possible 3rd PG project in Flynn. Not so bad, but I still wouldn't do it if I were Washington.
Or lets just say Ridnour and Pekovic. Of course, if we traded Pekovic, we'd probably want to look at getting a Hilton Armstrong in return just for big-man depth for the rest of the season. Pekovic may represent and interesting project big for Washington? And it would really take the edge of the financial hit of Hinrich's 9mil next year... leaving us at virtually the same salary figure that we would've been at before the trade (by my math anyways, feel free to correct me if I am wrong of course). Again, I'm not sure I would do it if I were Washington though.
I dunno, the more I type, the more complicated adding Hinrich becomes. Hmmmm.
But there you have it, a rambling and possibly paper-thin argument for why I believe...
GDG wrote:it's not that bad.
