Skybox wrote:Skin wrote:Magic_Kingdom wrote:Apparently only $7 million of his salary is guaranteed next season, so if you waive him you free up approximately $10 million in salary-cap space. If the front office believes they could use that extra $10 mil in free agency this summer to improve the team, then there would be a benefit to waiving him.
If the Magic waive Isaac and he miraculously becomes healthy and thrives on another team, that would be unfortunate. But no one could accuse the front office of not being patient. Quite the opposite, they never should have signed him to this extension to begin with. There was no evidence at the time that he could stay on the court, and now, more than 2 years later, there still isn't.
And who's to say that moving on from Isaac wouldn't have intangible effects in the locker room and front office? Do you think the other players don't know that JI is going into his third straight season as the highest-paid player on the team? Imagine an office where the highest-paid employee never showed up to work for 3 straight years. For every report, presentation, business call, he's not there and you're a man down. It's not his fault because he's always sick. But it's been 3 years -- why is management paying him so much more than the rest of the guys who grind it out every day?
For the front office, they would get to go into a season without wondering if JI will play, and making decisions based on the possibility that he will. If Welt really believes Isaac will play next year, how is that impacting his view of the draft, free agency and trades? If he's wrong -- again -- what did we miss out on? What could he have done with the roster spot and extra cap space?
If they have no use for the cap room and money is no object -- meaning, the extra $10 mil for zero production doesn't concern ownership from a bottom-line perspective -- then yes, they will probably keep him. But I'm surprised so many posters believe keeping him is a no-brainer, or that waiving him would be an "emotional" decision.
People ran out of patience with Markelle too. Those people chose the wrong opinion.
Actually, Markelle was a lot better when rehabbing…we could assume he could shoot back then.
Leading all NBA Guards in FG% during the entire regular season not good enough?