Ralphb07 wrote:Mort
Dammit, you found the bolded font.
Reading everything you and Mags have wrote and I understand what Mags is saying. IMO you thinks it would be fairly easy to find a better deal saving money which I disagree, it might happen but the likely hood is it will be tough
You have players on partially guarenteed contracts like Jerry Stackhouse which could be used. You could also attempt a three-way trade with two team significally under the tax, and take on the absolute minimum salary against what you're sending out.
First things first, how many teams are the the cap to absorb Boozer contract? If they aren't teams that can absorb some of his contract all they can do is save 25% of his in trades
No team can absorb Boozer's entire contract. But as mentioned above, finding a trade in which you use unguarenteed contracts as well as taking on just 75% of what you send out could work.
Also if teams aren't under the cap which teams have a 5-6mil TPE to take a Korver or Harpring back without putting themselves in the LT territory?
I don't expect neither Korver nor Harpring to be absorbed by TPE's. But let's assume you move Boozer and Korver ($17,662,536) in a three-way involving Stackhouse and Utah take on just 75% of what they're sending out ($13,246,902);
Stackhouse saves them $5 million and the trade saves $4,415,634, resulting in $9,415,634 saved.
Now, I don't know if Stackhouse's number will still be counted on the cap. But either way, they save more that way.
Yes if they can find a team with a TPE worth the amount of Miles, Korver or Harpring then it beats the Bulls saving but if they can't then the Bulls deal is the next best thing.
I'm not saying the Bulls trade is bad. I'm saying Jerome James would be
significally more easy to move if a team could remove $5.4 million of his salary from their tax payment.
This is from T9the problem is the Jazz are talking to several other teams and may wait to find a better deal.
The Bulls offer won't top a team with a TPE but what teams have them and if they do will using the TPE put that team over the LT themself
Just for fun, let's assume a team has a TPE that can absorb CJ Miles in addition to the move above:
That's $9,415,634 plus CJ's salary of $3,700,000 saved.
Total: $13,115,634