sidsanders wrote:

VCoug wrote:

NYKMentality wrote:

earthmansurfer wrote:JR needs to be careful right now. After provoking Lance Stephenson the other night and getting thrown out of the game, along with his poor play lately, I'm not sure they are bringing this guy back.

What J.R Smith stated may be disrespectful to that girl, but it's not a big deal. The girl is of legal age. If she wasn't? It's a completely different animal/situation. In regards to J.R Smith not coming back? That just means we'll have to land a solid 6th man off the bench (somehow-someway).

We're not in as much cap hell as some make it out to seem...

Chris Copeland: $473,604.
James White: $854,389.
Rasheed Wallace: $1,352,181.
Kurt Thomas: $1,352,181.
Renaldo Balkman: $1,675,000.
J.R Smith: $2,932,742.

Could all be off the books heading into this coming offseason. That's a good $8,640,097 off the books heading into next season. Now if both Marcus Camby and Jason Kidd retire due to old age at the end of the season? That's another $6,473,773 between Camby ($3,383,773) and Kidd ($3,090,000) combined.

Which could create for 15,113,870 off our books heading into the offseason.

Now, come next season when compared to this season/next season? Stoudemire's pay will increase + $1,731,094. Melo's pay will increase + $2,040,000, Tyson Chandler's pay will increase + $496,350. Felton's pay will increase by + $180,000, Shumpert's pay will increase + $117,240 and Novak's pay will decrease - $304,054.

That's an (overall) increase of 4,260,630 between Amar'e, Melo, Tyson, Felton and Shumpert.

So if J.R Smith doesn't return (which I hope he does return for cheap) and Kidd/Camby retires? We're looking at...

$10,853,240 in cap space with Felton, Shumpert, Melo, Stoudemire, Chandler and Novak on our roster. I'm pretty sure we can find really strong 6th-9th men off the bench with over 10 million in cap space to work with...

Them retiring doesn't give us cap space. Our cap number for next year is $76.4M; if we don't resign anyone and Kidd and Camby retire then it would be $66.998M and that's assuming JR opts out and we don't resign him and we decline the qualifying offer for Prigioni. That number also doesn't include our 2013 1st round pick. If you add in those we're looking at over $70M in salary next year. Meanwhile, the salary cap for this year is $58M and there's no way it will increase by anywhere nearly enough that we could sign multiple free agents. Best case scenario is that we'll have the full MLE available next year as opposed to the tax-payer MLE that we had this past offseason.

the retiring guys would have to accept a buyout or agree to cancel contracts of guaranteed $. cant really see a bunch of players doing a team a favor like that.

http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q61

Looks like you're right. Never realized that it doesn't matter if those guys retire or not, we'll still be paying them and they'll still count against the cap.

The the going gets tough..........

JR is an amazing basketball talent and still a child.

His arrogance got his best friend killed. (Passed a bunch of cars being impatient and blew thru a stop sign). After that nothing he has done is really "terrible" but it adds up and makes teams reluctant to "Invest" in a player with a vulnerable mind.

earthmansurfer wrote:I agree the tweet wasn't a big deal (I actually found it funny)

His tweet is unprofessional and brings a touch of bad press to our team. We live in a different age now what you said needs to be kept in check wether electronically or face-to-face....

Yeah it was last yr he posted a back shot of Tihary on his Twitt page....but hey..."MAYBE HE'LL GROW AND LEARN FROM THIS"

Please close his Twitter account...