Summer of 2010: free agents & cap situation

[dunkonu21]

If he can show me some toughness next year i'll reconsider my *barf*.

[RD&KG2]

we need to start making space for kg when he's avaliable.

[funkatron101]

we need to start making space for kg when he's avaliable.

Al, Love, KG, Miller, Foye.

Sounds like a championship team to me!

It will never happen.

[Klomp]

Garnett won't be available until the 2012 offseason.

There are some pretty good FAs in the 2010 class. They might not all be household names yet, but they will be. Looking at our current roster, my guess is that we could target a SG/SF player or a PF/C player.

Josh Howard
Tayshaun Prince
Rodney Stuckey
Al Thornton
Kobe Bryant (I know, unrealistic)
Richard Jefferson
Michael Redd
Tyson Chandler
Hedo Turkoglu
Sam Dalembert
Thaddeus Young
Brandon Roy
LaMarcus Aldridge
Ronnie Brewer
Kyle Korver
Nick Young

Imagine: Foye/Brew/Thornton/Al/Dalembert
Or better yet: Foye/Roy/Brew/Al/LMA

[NewWulf]

Mcgrady wouldnt be bad

Ford/Foye
Miller/Mccants
Mcgrady/Gomes
Jefferson/Love
Haywood/Pekovic

but a lot can change in a year we have 3 draft picks next year

I'll respectfully disagree. T'Mac's been overrated his entire career. Talented individual talent but last I looked, hoops was a team game.

[NewWulf]

Salaries
Al Jefferson $13.00Mil
Corey Brewer $3.70Mil
Kevin Love $3.64Mil
2009 #9 Pick $2.45Mil
2009 #14 Pick $1.90Mil
2009 #28 Pick $1.08Mil
Total $25.77Mil

Cap Holds
Mike Miller $14.82Mil
Randy Foye $10.74Mil
Total $25.56Mil

Question Marks
Rashad McCants
Ryan Gomes
Craig Smith
Sebastian Telfair
Nikola Pekovic
Two 2009 2nd Round Picks

Salary Cap ~$61Mil

It's too hard to say at this point how much we'll have to work with. We'll have a better idea after Gomes, Smith, and Telfair are dealt with this summer.

Barring somethi8ng unforeseen happening, no way do Foye & Miller eat $25 million in cap in 2010. $15-17 million possible but not likely. I'm guessing $16-19 million in cap space.

[Klomp]

I thought that at first too, but they are only cap holds:

What’s this “cap hold” everyone’s talking about?
“A cap hold is a “pseudo-salary, if you will. In determining how much room a team has underneath the cap, you begin with the salary cap number, reduce that number by all the contracts that you have and then subtract cap holds to arrive at your final figure. The NBA doesn’t want teams to reduce their roster down to just seven or eight players, creating artificial cap room, signing a big free agent or two, and filling up the rest of their roster with minimum contracts."

"To prevent this, the league assigns a cap hold to all the free agents a team has – both restricted and unrestricted.

"Other free agents, not coming out of the first-round rookie contract, have a cap hold equivalent to one and one-half times their last years salary if that salary is above the league average and two times their last years salary if that salary is below the league average. There’s one other limiting factor on a cap hold. The hold cannot be larger than the player’s maximum first-year salary on their new contract.”

Found it here: http://www.nba.com/magic/news/2007_OffS ... 0-800.html

Hopefully that helps explain it better. It helped me. Though I think Foye's number is off, but whatever.

[casey]

Foye's is higher because he'll be coming off his rookie contract. For those players it's two and one-half times their last years salary if that salary is above the league average and three times their last years salary if that salary is below the league average.

Because of those high numbers, they're obviously going to have to be dealt with first. Miller will probably want around $10Mil a year. That's what he'll be getting in 09-10, and I fully expect him to put up big numbers over the next couple years. It's harder to tell what Foye will command. It will depend on how he progresses over the next couple years.