MIN Will Eat your 2009-10 Salary. Any Takers?
Posted: Thu Apr 2, 2009 4:26 pm
I threw this up on the Trade Board, which I think is a very good path for the Wolves to take this summer. Do you have thoughts on this? I'll let you know if there are any interesting offers.
shrink wrote: Minnesota is in a perfect position right now to eat 2009-10 salary to help get teams under the lux, or to shave off more room under the cap. They don't have urgent goals in 2009, and they don't have enough room under the cap in 2009 themselves to do anything, or offer it in trade. However, they have the flexibility to take on 2009-10 salary in trade, and the talent of the players involvd isn't an issue.
Expirings for expirings.
MIN can't take on 2010-11 salary, because every dollar would reduce its raw cap space next summer. However, they could certainly trade their expirings for another team's expirings that cost more (within 25% + $100,000), to give the other team raw cap space.
For example, I'd be looking at deals like:
MINNESOTA GETS: Bad expirings ($16) + "incentive"
OTHER TEAM GETS: Mike Miller ($10) + Madsen ($3) + $3 mil TPE.
Right now, MIN has only two players with 2010-11 salary on the books .. Al Jefferson and Sebastian Telfair. Every other player is an expiring, and in my mind, an expiring that could be traded, so the Wolves have expirings in all sorts of sizes and usefulness. They also have lots of picks to smooth out a deal.
MIL and WAS seem like good places to start, but who else would like to improve their finances this year? Who would like to dump non-productive expirings for a player or two that could help them on the court?