Official Speculation & Free Agency Thread (PtII Mods Close)

Rick Rolled · Post #1181 » by **Rick Rolled** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:00 pm

Nemesis21 wrote:
Rick Rolled wrote:
JoshuaBRobbins Josh Robbins
In next few hours, I expect Magic to announce signings of draft picks Justin Harper & DLiggins. Also, signing Tony Battie strong possibility

Thought somebody posted in one of the threads here, that Battie re-signed with Philly ?

Yeah, Robbins is backtracking now.

Cigamodnalro · Post #1182 » by **Cigamodnalro** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:01 pm

Nemesis21 wrote:
Rick Rolled wrote:
JoshuaBRobbins Josh Robbins
In next few hours, I expect Magic to announce signings of draft picks Justin Harper & DLiggins. Also, signing Tony Battie strong possibility

Thought somebody posted in one of the threads here, that Battie re-signed with Philly ?

Battie did resign with Philly

rcklsscognition · Post #1183 » by **rcklsscognition** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:01 pm

Nemesis21 wrote:
Rick Rolled wrote:
JoshuaBRobbins Josh Robbins
In next few hours, I expect Magic to announce signings of draft picks Justin Harper & DLiggins. Also, signing Tony Battie strong possibility

Thought somebody posted in one of the threads here, that Battie re-signed with Philly ?

He thought about Orlando but it seems he's ultimately chosen Philly.

Driguez · Post #1184 » by **Driguez** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:01 pm

shadrock wrote:What i want to know is if we have necessarily USED the MLE on Big Baby, or if we simply used cap space to sign him. According to my maths, if we amnestied Arenas, that would have put us at AROUND 57 mil, which is under the cap. Then, the S&T that sent out Bass and brought in Big Baby would require a few entra hunder thousand of cap space for it to go through, as salaries need to be within 150%. Bass was set to earn about 4 mil, and Big Baby looks like he will get around 6 mil, which is 150%. So, does this mean we still have the full MLE at our disposal??!?!

Seems like we do have the full MLE!

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gp123 · Post #1185 » by **gp123** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:02 pm

shadrock wrote:What i want to know is if we have necessarily USED the MLE on Big Baby, or if we simply used cap space to sign him. According to my maths, if we amnestied Arenas, that would have put us at AROUND 57 mil, which is under the cap. Then, the S&T that sent out Bass and brought in Big Baby would require a few entra hunder thousand of cap space for it to go through, as salaries need to be within 150%. Bass was set to earn about 4 mil, and Big Baby looks like he will get around 6 mil, which is 150%. So, does this mean we still have the full MLE at our disposal??!?!

I would think so... the s/t basically is just like any other trade, contracts just need to closely match contracts.

Swiftraven · Post #1186 » by **Swiftraven** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:02 pm

shadrock wrote:What i want to know is if we have necessarily USED the MLE on Big Baby, or if we simply used cap space to sign him. According to my maths, if we amnestied Arenas, that would have put us at AROUND 57 mil, which is under the cap. Then, the S&T that sent out Bass and brought in Big Baby would require a few entra hunder thousand of cap space for it to go through, as salaries need to be within 150%. Bass was set to earn about 4 mil, and Big Baby looks like he will get around 6 mil, which is 150%. So, does this mean we still have the full MLE at our disposal??!?!

Yes

rcklsscognition · Post #1187 » by **rcklsscognition** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:02 pm

Driguez wrote:
shadrock wrote:What i want to know is if we have necessarily USED the MLE on Big Baby, or if we simply used cap space to sign him. According to my maths, if we amnestied Arenas, that would have put us at AROUND 57 mil, which is under the cap. Then, the S&T that sent out Bass and brought in Big Baby would require a few entra hunder thousand of cap space for it to go through, as salaries need to be within 150%. Bass was set to earn about 4 mil, and Big Baby looks like he will get around 6 mil, which is 150%. So, does this mean we still have the full MLE at our disposal??!?!

Seems like we do have the full MLE!

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Jamal Crawford is comin to town.

Post #1188 » by **SOUL** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:03 pm

Battie is like 57.

MoMM · Post #1189 » by **MoMM** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:04 pm

SOUL wrote:Battie is like 57.

At least he is better than Malik and Orton...

Idunkonyou2 · Post #1190 » by **Idunkonyou2** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:05 pm

shadrock wrote:What i want to know is if we have necessarily USED the MLE on Big Baby, or if we simply used cap space to sign him. According to my maths, if we amnestied Arenas, that would have put us at AROUND 57 mil, which is under the cap. Then, the S&T that sent out Bass and brought in Big Baby would require a few entra hunder thousand of cap space for it to go through, as salaries need to be within 150%. Bass was set to earn about 4 mil, and Big Baby looks like he will get around 6 mil, which is 150%. So, does this mean we still have the full MLE at our disposal??!?!

Yes we have the full MLE. We pretty much did a salary for salary deal, but we needed to get a few million under the cap to get it done which is why we amnesty Arenas.

D12VCMagic · Post #1191 » by **D12VCMagic** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:05 pm

If we got Big Baby in a S&T, we have the MLE.

magicfan9109 · Post #1192 » by **magicfan9109** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:05 pm

Battie would be productive off the bench! He works hard.

rcklsscognition · Post #1193 » by **rcklsscognition** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:05 pm

My take on going under the cap to get the MLE is definitely sign we are going after Crawford.

shadrock · Post #1194 » by **shadrock** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:05 pm

rcklsscognition wrote:
Driguez wrote:
shadrock wrote:What i want to know is if we have necessarily USED the MLE on Big Baby, or if we simply used cap space to sign him. According to my maths, if we amnestied Arenas, that would have put us at AROUND 57 mil, which is under the cap. Then, the S&T that sent out Bass and brought in Big Baby would require a few entra hunder thousand of cap space for it to go through, as salaries need to be within 150%. Bass was set to earn about 4 mil, and Big Baby looks like he will get around 6 mil, which is 150%. So, does this mean we still have the full MLE at our disposal??!?!

Seems like we do have the full MLE!

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Jamal Crawford is comin to town.

Then in that case, WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW OTIS! Amazing!! We literally got under the cap in order to be able to Sign and trade for Baby, and stayed under it enough to allow us to ALSO get access to the full MLE. HUGEEEEE HUGEEEE move by Otis. Really showing his IQ here.

rcklsscognition · Post #1195 » by **rcklsscognition** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:06 pm

Don't forget we still need a backup center. Any MLE candidates at that spot?

SolidSnake008 · Post #1196 » by **SolidSnake008** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:07 pm

Yeah but Jamal Crawford?

shadrock · Post #1197 » by **shadrock** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:07 pm

rcklsscognition wrote:Don't forget we still need a backup center. Any MLE candidates at that spot?

My guess is part will goto Earl Clark, unless we can sign him with another exception!?

We also need a backup PG now... DuDu wont cut it...

gp123 · Post #1198 » by **gp123** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:08 pm

battie resiging takes the wind out of the iggy trade if you ask me... he could have gotten a paycheck with a s/t

Driguez · Post #1199 » by **Driguez** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:08 pm

SolidSnake008 wrote:Yeah but Jamal Crawford?

Feel the same way

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gp123 · Post #1200 » by **gp123** » Fri Dec 9, 2011 8:08 pm

shadrock wrote:
rcklsscognition wrote:Don't forget we still need a backup center. Any MLE candidates at that spot?

My guess is part will goto Earl Clark, unless we can sign him with another exception!?

We also need a backup PG now... DuDu wont cut it...

we should have his bird rights, i think we can exceed the cap, but we need to be over it again first