KqWIN wrote:Inigo Montoya wrote:KqWIN wrote:Favors has a late guarantee date though. They can try and sign someone before they waive him. If Favors is back, it doesn’t mean we never tried.
Now, I would expect DL to brag about bringing Favors regardless of whether or not they tried to sign someone and failed. If he is back, the message will be that they never even thought about waiving him and that it’s a gigantic win to have him back.
I may be wrong, Favors' salary still counts against the cap until the Jazz waive him. So they could talk about scenarios in which they'd waive Favors to create more space to make an offer to player X, but they won't actually be able to make an offer until they waive Favors.
You don’t have to have the cap space to agree upon or offer up a deal. You just have to have the money when he officially signs. This is one of the reasons we have the moratorium. Favs isn’t guaranteed until the 5th or 6th of
June, so the Jazz will have until then to try and get a max FA.
July 5th. Its what makes the Favors deal so brilliant, they can keep him or waive him and gamble nothing because they have until then to decide.
And KqWIN is right. You can go after a max player before you waive/renounce/trade anyone. Boston didn't have the cap when Hayward agreed to play for them.They had to trade Bradley before he could sign.
We're not getting a max or near max FA anyway so it's all moot.
