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Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA -- Twitter
The Mavericks will be aggressive bidders for Scola on the amnesty wire, league sources said. Dallas is serious about Elton Brand too.
According to the best reporter in the league, Adrian Worjanowski, scola its going to be officially amnestied tomorrow.
Hes due 3 yrs and 21mill...
Doubtful he will go unclaimed, but if by miracle he does i see him with the spurs next season!
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
Houston has decided to use the amnesty provision on Luis Scola and will likely file with NBA on Friday, league sources tell Y! Sports.
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA -- Twitter
The Mavericks will be aggressive bidders for Scola on the amnesty wire, league sources said. Dallas is serious about Elton Brand too.
How much does Dallas have?
Depends on who you believe. I've seen numbers from 6-9M.
so dallas is gonna get brand and scola ok
The Rocket have decided to waive PF Luis Scola using the amnesty clause, according to Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski.
This is pretty big news, but maybe the Rockets are as displeased with Scola's lack of shot blocking as his fantasy owners are. This could be big news for rookie Royce White, while Patrick Patterson would also see a much bigger role without Scola around. Despite his shot blocking deficiency, he's averaged 14.5 points and 7.7 rebounds in his NBA career and has only missed eight games in five years. He's going to be a very hot commodity off the amnesty wire.
Related: Royce White, Patrick Patterson
Source: Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter
Jul 12 - 6:28 PM
Seriously, just because they are under the cap, can they throw whatever they want to spend at these amnesties?
Somewhere whottt is saying he told us so.
Even though Scola looked pretty bad last season, I hope he doesn't end up with the Mavs. Then again, Dirk and Scola at the same time would be one porous combo.
Scola is probably more attractive than Brand because a team can lock him up for 3 years. Nevertheless, I don't expect either of them to clear waivers.
Then again, with cap-space teams bidding on the prime amnesty targets, a few decent ones might slip through the cracks. Haywood or Darko could make good 5th bigs.
Does whatever the "winning" bid is then count against the cap?
Any or all of their available cap space. Remember, they were set to offer a max contract to Williams. They've added Kaman, Collison, and Jones, but they still have a fair amount left.
does this mean htown is landing dwight
It means that they're all-in on trying to land Dwight.
it looks like the new southwest division strategy
steal all PFs from the spurs
maybe while all these teams are hoarding PFs we could get someone like carl landry
damn houston and dallas looking to bolster that front court, bonner is ting the bed somewhere
could we create cap space by amnestying Boner?
Only that part, though, right? Only the part that they are actually paying. The remainder counts toward nobody's cap.
As timvp said, it would be a very porous front line. Kaman and Dirk is already bad enough but if we add scola to the mix, it's going to be laughable. It'll be nice to have a post presence (or two) for once next to Dirk. Dirk has never played with a skilled low post big man in his entire career
frontcourt
dirk/kaman/brand/scola/marion
backcourt
lol
He had a horrid start to the season, but started to come on towards the end. I think he would be a great pickup. We'd probably have the best passing front line since Webber/Divac.
Brand's 18M salary came off Philly's cap via the amnesty. The amount of the winning bid gets added to the winning team's cap. The winning team pays that amount to Brand. The remainder of his salary is paid by Philly.
A smart person on twitter just reminded me that a bid on Scola would eat into the cap space for next season. So it is not quite a certainty that Dallas makes a bid on him.
He is my favorite player, and a true warrior, the Spurs would be WISE to go after him, he can still ball really well and plays 100 miles an hour all game long.
It looks like we are going to rent Dwight and absorb every bad contract in the league in doing so.
UGH.
DD
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