kosmovitelli wrote:Keep in mind, I just made simple projections based on what could happen considering the current state of the roster and the direction of the team. I didn't include our 2013 first round pick and qualifying offers for Prigioni and Copeland. Max contract projections are just an indication (the best offer we can make). The taxpayer's MLE can obviously be split between Copeland and Prigioni but it probably makes more sense to let Prigioni take his QO worth $988,872).
Thanks for putting this together.
Just a small addendum, even if the knicks traded that pick and renounced rights to Prigioni and Copeland by not giving them qualifying offers, that space would still need to be filled with capholds for empty roster charges as required by the CBA to bring the minimum player slots up to the required 12. Those cap holds would make it even more unlikely that the Knicks would be under the apron even providing for an increase in the apron set by the league for the new season.
I mention this only because there was some blogger piece floating around earlier with ludicrous scenarios of going under the apron in order to facilitate a sign-and-trade for CP3, but disregarded the required empty roster charges that made the fantasy trade scenarios and calculations even more ludicrous. The knicks would almost certainly be above the apron one way or the other.
So for anyone using these numbers and trying to figure out a way to go below the apron, realize that you need to add empty roster charges to these numbers before you get your final team salary number. Neither the "Total Salary" nor "Total Salary (projected)" numbers in this chart include those empty roster charges.