MSG3 wrote:smackeddog wrote:Allanfan20 wrote:jrodmc wrote:Papabear wrote:Rookie wrote:CP3 is not available next season
Papabear Says
Well then we go for D. Williams or Felton
Wow. That's a major drop off for Plan B, huh?
With the way the Nyets season is shaping up, DWilliams may end up signing anywhere else for the league minimum by the allstar break. Poor bastid hones his game in turkey so he can come home and be part of another run at the all time worst record again?
Just so you all know, and not to put a damper on everyones spirits, but there is no way we will be getting Raymond Felton for the MLE anymore. Not with how Portland is starting and the way he is playing.
And the fact that we screwed him over- why do people think he would ever sign with us again? he signed with us for less money and a shorter contract because he wanted to play in D'Antoni's system. We then traded him a few months later, to Denver. Why do people think he would ever sign with us again? And at a discount again?!
Anyway the plan laid out in the first post of this thread is not possible under the CBA. I don't think players can renegotiate contracts downwards, and you can't add money to the MLE- you only get the MLE if you are over the cap, as soon as you go under the cap you lose it.
Miami appeared to do this because I don't think they had actually signed their contracts, when they decided to take less so they could sign Haslem- as nothing was signed, they could easily just revise the contracts they had been offered.
I think players can negotiate contracts downward up to 40%. I heard that right around when the new CBA was signed.
Players can restructure their contracts so that yearly salary is reduced by 40%, but the caveat to that is the money is simply added to additional years on the contract.
So if a player has 4 yrs/$80M left on their contract, they can renegotiate it so that it's 5 yrs or 6 yrs/$80M.
But there is no way Melo or Amar'e would do that cause they would effectively cut into their future earnings. Since both players aren't likely to retire after their current contract, renegotiating their contracts to say 6 yrs/$80M is in effect making them lose out on $40M in years 5 and 6 that they could possibly get in an extension.
Our only option next summer is the MLE. The dream scenario is if we can convince Wilson Chandler to come back to NY with the promise of a payday once we get his early bird rights. Not likely to happen, but there's a good chance he'd be an unrestricted FA if he accepts the QO from Denver when he returns from China.
For PG options, our best bet are only vets like Andre Miller, Steve Nash, etc. as I don't think we'll be able to pry a young PG for just the MLE. Augustin will get matched, Felton will be resigned by Portland for more. If Steve Nash and BDiddy would accept the vet's min, which is very possible, I'd rather keep those two to man our PG situation, and use our MLE on guard/forward depth like Brandon Rush.
1/1/2012 1:25 PM
