paulpressey25 wrote:Bobby Marks breaks it down. It reduces our cap hit by $2.3mm per year. But we still pay him the full cash.
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He's gotten quite a bit wrong about the Bucks offseason so far.
He's claiming it's 2.3/yr for 5 yrs cuz he got stretched to 5 yrs. But from my understanding & other cap gurus like Keith Smith, that cap relief/payout only takes place during Dame's original contract term, which was 2 seasons. So it's more like 5 (or closer to 6th if it's calculated off the regular minimum but not vet minimum Dame could have gotten otherwise) for each of those 2 seasons instead.
IDK whether 5-6 the next 2 yrs vs. 2.3 each year for the next 5 is more favorable. Right now the 1st seems better, like having Dame stretched for 22.5 instead of paying 50-60, but we could use the $ later more. In a perfect world we'd backload it all.
And I think the amount the Bucks owe to Lillard is reduced by over double the set off for the cap. Marks didn't mention anything about this either way in the Tweet.