Maroko wrote:The Cap limit for this season is $63m.
Players we effectively have under contract now:
Bosh: $20.6m
Cole: $2m
Napier: $1m
Deng: $10m
McRoberts: $5.3m
Granger: $2.1m
Birdman : $5m
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Total: $45m
Players we could sign and will likely cost more than the minimum:
Wade: ???
Haslem: ???
Chalmers: ???
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Total: ???
Roster cap hold: $4.5m (the league automatically adds what the remaining players would cost you if they were all signed for the minimum)
Total salary so far: ~$49.5m
Which means we now have a total of ~$13.5m of cap space (but for every player we sign $0.5m goes off the roster cap hold and is added to the cap space, so if we sign Wade for $10m we will have $3m remaining of the cap space not $2.5m) PLUS a ~$2m exception we can use to sign a free agent.
Granger should not count with Heat's cap space because he will be signed after Miami use all its cap space.
Bosh: $20.6m
Cole: $2m
Napier: $1m
Deng: $10m
McRoberts: $5.3m
Birdman : $5m ?????
Chalmers : $4m (according to ESPN)
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Total: $47.9m
since thats only 7 players sign and 13 players is the minimum in a roster, then the roster cap holds is at $2.54m (5 x $507,336)
Total of $50.44m. . . There is still $12.56m to sign Wade. (Big pay cut, Bosh should give the Heat a discount to compensate Wade)
Then use the MLE ($2.732m) to sign Haslem. Then bi-annual to Granger after Heat use all of its cap space.