amk482 wrote:
When draft picks can be bought for straight cash and with the Jazz luxury tax issues, is it really worth it for them to take $5 or so million in dead wood contracts just for CDR and a pick they won't see any time soon? I tend to doubt it. At the very least the filler has to be a player who will play for Utah. Hassell wouldn't see the light of day there
-Hassel wouldnt play agreed, but CDR is a chip for them as well as the pick.
If they want to buy a draft pick, it costs them the same $5M from a cash flow perspective.
(1) they have to pay $3M
(2) they have to pay the player's salary
So I would rather pay salary to Hassel and CDR for $5M total and get a pick, than just shell out $5M for the pick. Granted this eats away at lux tax space but at least they get CDR and future pick for Boozer. Look, they arent that far off from getting under the lux tax. see below.
I assume the following:
1)decline option on Almond
2)eat Harprings $2.5M guarantee, he is not going to earn the $6.5M
3)They pick up option on Fesenko and Brewer
4) resign Milsap starting at $8M with $1M increases each year - $5 years, $50M total
5)resign okur to starting at $8M with $1M increases each year - $5 years, $50M total
6) Korver does not opt out
Lets assume they make the deal I proposed with OKC - just as an example. They would be left with:
AK - 16.5
Miles - 3.7
Milsap - 8.0
deron - 13.8
Hassel - 4.4
CDR - 0.7
Koufus - 1.2
Korver - 5.3
Fesenko - 0.9
harpring - 2.5
Okur - 8.0
brewer - 2.7
# 20 pick - 1.3
total = 69M = most likely under lux tax
Im just saying, it isnt impossible to make this work
Harpring's contract only voided if he missed time due to a right knee injury, which did not happen. His contract is fully guaranteed and as a result your roster plan has the Jazz in the luxury tax. As a result, the cash flow impact of a Hassell/CDR combo is more like $8-9 million rather than the $5 you're estimating it at.
