Giricek - Traded, released and signed

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Giricek - Traded, released and signed 

Post#1 » by grantdovey » Sun Mar 9, 2008 11:52 pm

I was reading through CBA examples and I was wondering what happens with someone like Gordon Giricek.

Giricek was traded from Utah to Philadelphia on December 29th, 2007.

So thats mean's Philly is responsible for his salary for the remainder of the year, right?

Then he was waived on February 29th by the Sixers. He signed with the Suns of March 4th.

How much of his contract is picked up total by the Sixers if his contract is $4.0 million this year?
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Post#2 » by bgwizarfan » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:36 am

It depends if Giricek was bought out or if he was flat out released. All $4 million was on the Sixers cap before then (and even if it wasn't fully guaranteed from the outset, it was by the time the Sixers waived him since it was after January 10th).

The Suns simply pay him the minimum prorated salary for a cap charge of ($770,610 X (Days Left in Reg Season/170)). I'm guessing there was some sort of buyout involved here that allowed the Sixers to save a few bucks, even if Giricek was a minimum salary player, since set-off would not come into play.

Now as far as who is actually paying the bills for the contract, I believe he simply gets paid by each team based on the amount of time he was there (so Jazz up until the trade and then the Sixers). So I don't think the Sixers actually will have paid him $4 million this year, but his cap charge would be $4 million if there was no buyout (it ends up relatively evening out since the Sixers would have paid Korver for the time he was there, and since salaries have to be near each other when teams trade with one another, teams usually end up actually paying similar amounts).

I need Gump, Dunk, or Larry to clarify the whole "writing the checks" issue here, but I think that's how it works
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Post#3 » by arenas809 » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:12 pm

I posted a quote from the Philly Daily News in the Buyout Thread that said they were saving about $350,000 by buying out Giricek.
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Post#4 » by Mr. Sun » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:27 pm

^^ I'm just guessing here, but I think the $350,000 savings is probably the non-guaranteed portion of salary that came off the books saving in tax.
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Post#5 » by Dunkenstein » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:49 pm

Mr Sun, Giricek's contract was guaranteed for the entire season from Day 1. Also Philly will not be a tax payer this season.

It's my understanding that Philly saved around a quarter million dollars when they bought out Giricek, which is around $50K more than he gets in salary from Phoenix.
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Post#6 » by Mr. Sun » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:55 am

My apologies. Thought the luxury tax was set at $67.8 million for this season.
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Post#7 » by Dunkenstein » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:23 am

Mr. Sun wrote:My apologies. Thought the luxury tax was set at $67.8 million for this season.

No, my apologies. I forgot Webber was still on their team salary this year. The Sixers will be a tax payer this season.
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Post#8 » by FGump » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:32 am

I have the Sixers as tax-free this season.
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Post#9 » by Three34 » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:27 pm

So do I. They aren't paying tax on McKie, remember.
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Post#10 » by Dunkenstein » Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:15 pm

Just like I forgot Webber was on their team salary, I also forgot that McKie was an amnesty waiver. So I was actually correct in my original assertion.

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