Amnesty Provision and players

[nevetsov]

So if there is an amnesty provision, then I bet there's about an 80% chance we use it on Carter's $4m buyout.

- Can't see us taking on much salary in a trade so I think we buy him out. Sarver spend $4m on that. Can't see him wanting to then spend another $9m (Warrick) or near $30m (Childress) just to make another player go away.

- Using it to clear Carter's salary from the tax effect (and potentially cap) has almost the same effect as a cut Warrick or Childress this season (reduction of $4m, $4.3m and $6m respectively). So this year, there is limited benefit for such cost.

- Cutting Warrick would take him off the books (tax or cap) for next year, but our payroll is so low it really doesn't matter. And chances are, we would keep him for half a season and trade him at the deadline for value. His team option for year 3 is a nice trading piece for teams that will be wanting to ditch salary. Not as gargantuan as VCs but it's much more manageable if so far as matching salaries. VCs has value but due to trade rules it's hard to find a trade partner.

- I think we did a similar thing last amnesty with Eisley, pretty sure he was already bought out and we used the amnesty to prevent his salary incurring tax penalty. If this one allows us to ditch $4m from the books altogether, even better.