Chalm Down Bro wrote:We're not amnestying Miller, we'll be over the cap anyway, so we're stuck with him. He's a really good rebounder for someone his size and I'm not really sure why, it seems like when he's out there, the ball goes right to him. I like Mike as a person and it's sad to see how broken down and hobbled he is but all he has to do is give us a few more weeks of playing and he has a LONG time to rest up.
Just because we are over the cap, doesn't mean it is inconsequential. We pay a luxury tax that gets more steep the more you are over it. I think it is like dollar for dollar for the first 5 milliion, 2 dollars for every dollar for the next 5 million, and so on. There is a point at which it becomes not cost effective to add salary. If amnestying Miller allows us to spend the MLE on another player that we would otherwise be unable to afford, it comes down to how good that MLE guy is in comparison to Miller.
We don't want to get to a point where Millers $6 million salary costs us $18 million. we'd be better paying him out the $6 million and spending the $3 million on a different player, if he was better than Mike, and the alternative was not signing that guy.
Micky Arison is rich, but giving 12 million a year to other franchises to keep Mike miller is not a good idea if he doesn't produce as much as the guy you would have signed. For example, if Steve Nash doesn't care about money and will take the 3 mill, you dump Miller in a second (though if Steve Nash is willing to pay for $3 mill, you are probably going to make enough additional money to cover without amnestying).
