Why not to amnesty Marvin Williams

[evildallas]

1) We haven't seen whether back surgery has created a new, more competitive Marvin Williams. Longshot I know but since he gets paid either way might as well see.

2) Amnesty would only facilitate signing Jamal Crawford to a sizable deal. Given how Larry Drew used him during regular season, how Jamal was overmatched in playoffs, his lack of defense and his age it might be in our best interest to not resign him. Sure we'll miss the offensive off the bench, but I'd argue that his minuses outweigh his pluses. We need to make changes in hopes of improving the bottom line and his price tag is too high to maintain the status quo (like Joe last free agency period).

3) If he doesn't work out this year there is the stretch provision. Now for the math:

Marvin has 3 years left at $25M. If amnesty claused the ASG would pay that and get approx $8M in cap savings which would put them right at the salary cap level and around 12M beneath luxury tax.

If they wait a year they get to see what the surgical repaired Marvin can do, which might generate trade value, but let's assume he doesn't change/improve. Now he's got 2 years left at 17M. You could amnesty him to get $9M off the cap number that year or you could waive him at split his $17M over 5 years (double the remaining years + 1) for a 3.4M cap number of dead money for five years. That would be a 5.5M savings year 1 and 3.6M year 2 to help keep the team from the luxury tax. After that he would be a burden but just think of it like still having Speedy Claxton (a certain amount of money would count against the cap and we'd never see him on the floor). The key to this is that it saves the Amnesty clause for Joe last two years if his game plummets to an intolerable level.

Alternatively, If we tough out 2 seasons then Marvin becomes an expiring contract which might be the height of his trade value.

I just wanted to post this to illustrate how the stretch provision is an alternative to amnesty to get away from a bad contract. I hope Surgically Repaired Marvin is a revelation because I really don't like hating a Hawk player like this. I'll pulling for you Marvin to become tolerable.

[Ruhiel]

Other teams are hoping Hawks don't make any moves and eventually need to come to terms they arent contenders and use it on Joe Johnson in a few years.