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NYK4
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1/20/2004  1:08 PM
lets say IT does trade houston or kvh for rasheed wallace. Rasheed is in his last yr. if we let him walk, do we have enough to enter the kobe sweepstakes? sheed makes 13.5 million this yr i believe.
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1/20/2004  1:13 PM
Posted by NYK4:

lets say IT does trade houston or kvh for rasheed wallace. Rasheed is in his last yr. if we let him walk, do we have enough to enter the kobe sweepstakes? sheed makes 13.5 million this yr i believe.
sheed makes 17.5 this year. but we wouldnt get close to enter kobe sweeps.
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1/20/2004  1:17 PM
if he does make 17.5 mil and its off our books..why can;t u use that 17.5 for kobe? atleast not all of it eventho we are over the cap. please explain
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1/20/2004  1:25 PM
If a team is over the cap, they can only use exceptions to sign players. The most popular is the Mid-Level Exception (MLE), which was created specifically to allow over-the-cap teams to sign a player outright.

I hope this helps shed some light on things.
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1/20/2004  1:33 PM
even if 17.5 comes off our books...we'll still be over the cap and as long as you are over the cap, the only way you can sign a free agent is through the mid level exception or the $1mil exception...kobes not gonna sign for the mid level exception (around $5mil/yr)

houston, penny, marbury, and shandon...their salaries combined places us over the cap
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1/20/2004  2:27 PM
do we really want/need kobe here? We need a big man before another all star guard.
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1/20/2004  4:29 PM
Posted by hDavis:

do we really want/need kobe here? We need a big man before another all star guard.
good point dude. we already have too many of those locked up at max sallary for the next few years. unless isiah pulls off another miracle, we are stuck with this core of guards.
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1/20/2004  9:27 PM
how about colby in a sign & trade for kvh? possible? colby often plays the three also. 6'8.
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