Allanfan20 wrote:Don't forget the capholds.

Which would of course be renounced....the second we had a big signing to make.

Cosmic wrote:Also, if you waive 9M of fatty's 11M in front of his face next July he will take that and RUN because he is BROKE.

That'd put us down to 18.5M committed salary.

that's not how it works. someone must pay curry $2 mil to play for them to remove that from the cap figure.

Cosmic wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:Don't forget the capholds.

Which would of course be renounced....the second we had a big signing to make.

Is there a deadline to renounce their rights?

Andrew wrote:

kam77 wrote:Yup. Sergio and Tmac are going to be renounced.

Likely, but also consider them signing for small $ amounts that don't impact the max signings.

Andrew right now we don't have enough for even 2 max deals. Anything above the minimum hurts that even more.

TheGame wrote:

Juice wrote:

Andrew wrote:

kam77 wrote:Yup. Sergio and Tmac are going to be renounced.

Likely, but also consider them signing for small $ amounts that don't impact the max signings.

They won't because Max Salary is $17mil per Max. If we want Lebron and Bosh they will eat up the $34mil. I don't understand why we're having a difficult time with this. We also don't have the MLE to use because it has to be renounced to give us maximum cap space.

The cap hold for McGrady would be huge, so there is no why we don't renounce his rights. We might resign Sergio if we can get him for $3-$4 million dollars. We can probably do a sign and trade with Toronto to give Bosh a max contract as well as Lebron.

We don't even have that kind of wiggle room.

A Max player is entitled to 30% of whatever the Cap is set to. Let's say the cap doesn't dip as much as feared and settles at $55mil. 30% of $55mil is $16.5mil roughly $17mil exactly what I stated a few posts back. $16.5mil *2(Max Free Agents) is $33mil. $33mil + $20mil is $53mil. That leaves $2mil to play with. Not to mention Chandler is eligible for a Max Extension this fall. We have no room to improve the team because we're capped out and no future picks to barter.....

Andrew wrote:Yes, signing 2 Max players doesn't give you much to work with but thats no guarantee that is going to happen. How about 1 Max and 1 12M player? Think someone may take slightly less to play with Lebron? Could happen.

This is the problem. I don't see Lebron going on July 1. I see him taking his time. So you basically have to have a piece waiting for him not the other way around.

Pharzeone wrote:

crzymdups wrote:I think one of the likely things that will happen this summer is that Player X will sign with the knicks and after it is clear Player X intends to sign with us, Player X's old team will do a sign and trade with us - possibly for DLee or Harrington or whoever. If we can do what Toronto did with Hedo, we can avoid going under the cap and retain our LLE and MLEs.

David Lee is a UFA. He doesn't have to wait for anything. The Knicks will have to renounce his bird rights. To be able to sign two max free agents. Much like Orlando had to with Darko.

David Lee is going to the Nets because they aren't going to get Bosh or Amare.

At the end of day I dont feel Lebron is going to leave a CURRENTLY title contending team for a team built out of spare parts. Cleveland is going to have 15 million in expiring contracts this summer and the MLE to play with.