AlexCRO wrote:We signed 2 guys with our excpetions... but i dont understand how if we have one player signed currently ??? what if the big 3 signed discounted deals and we are not over the cap? could somebody explain ? thx
EDIT** Didn't see Mopper had explained before posting.Due to the cap holds of the Big 3 and the rest of our roster we technically have 0 cap space until all of the Big 3 sign new, discounted deals, leave the Heat, or we renounce the rights to them (not happening). We can either renounce everybody except the Big 3, have them take discounted amounts and then operate as a cap ROOM team or we can
not renounce anyone, have the Big 3 sign at a number close to the cap (with Norris Cole and Shabazz Napier + cap holds and roster charges added) and then use our exceptions for McBob and DG, leaving us with only the Joel Anthony 2.2 million TPE to use for one more "above the vet minimum" addition. We cant do both,
you cannot use cap space to sign outside free agents AND then also use the MLE/Bi Annual exceptions.
While it has been reported that we are using our exceptions, and the money we agreed to "reportedly" lines up exactly with exception money, It is not 100% a given that we are using exceptions and operating as a capped team.
Let me try to explain further.
We have 2 options at this point. We can either have the Big 3 opt out (as they did), take considerably less and then operate as a cap "Room Team" and make all of our signings using cap space. This could even include the two deals agreed upon yesterday, we would just slot them in at the starting salaries for those amounts but they wouldn't be signed into exceptions just outright cap space signings. If the Big 3 took WAY WAY less we could conceivably add another piece using all of this cap space, but it would also require us renouncing the rights to all of our free agents aside from the Big 3 (including Rio, Ray Ray and Birdman).
Due to the fact that we signed McBob and DG at exactly the reported amounts of the MLE and Bi Annual Exception it appears we are looking to operate as a capped team using our exceptions to exceed the salary cap, and then further exceed the cap by resigning Ray Allen, Chris Anderson and maybe even...gulp...Mario Chalmers. But it points to the Big 3 coming back to Miami.
