Mavs to use amnesty on Haywood

[ElNono]

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/eye-on-basketball/19564791/report-mavericks-to-use-amnesty-clause-on-brendan-haywood

Should the Spurs participate in the upcoming bidding process?

[timtonymanu]

Can the Spurs do the same with Bonner, please?

[SpurPadre]

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/eye-on-basketball/19564791/report-mavericks-to-use-amnesty-clause-on-brendan-haywood

Should the Spurs participate in the upcoming bidding process?

Please, no more old guys. He'll be 33 by next season...pass. Of course, better him than Bonner but I'd rather get Tyrus Thomas if the Bobcats cut him loose.

[ElNono]

I'll take him for a 1 year contract for the vet min... let Cubes eat up the rest of the contract...

[jermaine]

Um tired as fuck I'd 6'9 muthafuckas! He's 7ft, sign him up. He can guard Byumn or Howard.

[Gregzilla]

I wouldn't mind another 7ft Center on our roster..pop can mix and match lineups for different teams...Haywood Duncan, Duncan Diaw, Haywood Diaw when Duncan goes to bench. Our only shot against the okc's and mia's is to slow the game down....we will NOT outrun and gun them. Haywood is long and can rebound...we don't need any offense from him

[TimmehC]

Even if they wanted to bid on him, the Spurs are way over the cap, so they're not allowed to.

[Mel_13]

Spurs have a vet minimum sized trade exception from trading TJ to the Warriors. That's all they can bid. Chances of a vet min bid getting Haywood are almost zero.

[suitedkings]

It worked out well for us the last time we picked up a player Dallas amnesty'd.

[spurspokesman]

More Geriatric nonsense smh.

[Lincoln]

:lmao

[Mel_13]

:lmao

Cuban owes this guy another 27 million dollars. That is hilarious.

[ElNono]

Cuban owes this guy another 27 million dollars. That is hilarious.

exactly... not sure what the vet min looks like nowadays, but if Cubes foots $20+ million and the guy plays for us, I'll take it... plus you make it a 1 year deal so if he ends up at the end of the bench, no big deal

[Mel_13]

exactly... not sure what the vet min looks like nowadays, but if Cubes foots $20+ million and the guy plays for us, I'll take it... plus you make it a 1 year deal so if he ends up at the end of the bench, no big deal

Chances are he won't make it to free agency. The team that wins the bidding will have him for three years.

[DPG21920]

Spurs have a vet minimum sized trade exception from trading TJ to the Warriors. That's all they can bid. Chances of a vet min bid getting Haywood are almost zero.

Mel, teams over the cap can bid on amnestied players by using exceptions?

[Mel_13]

Mel, teams over the cap can bid on amnestied players by using exceptions?

Trade exceptions. Learned that from Bruno a few days ago.

[DPG21920]

Trade exceptions. Learned that from Bruno a few days ago.

So you can use Trade Exceptions? David Aldridge just told me no :lol

[DPG21920]

I thought you could use TE's too, even if over the cap, for amnestied players so now I am confused.

[Monostradamus]

Neato

[Seventyniner]

I thought you could use TE's too, even if over the cap, for amnestied players so now I am confused.

Logically, I wouldn't think a team could use a TE to get an amnestied player; the player isn't being traded. Looks like Larry Coon will probably be the arbiter here.

[Mel_13]

So you can use Trade Exceptions? David Aldridge just told me no :lol


I thought you could use TE's too, even if over the cap, for amnestied players so now I am confused.

Maybe Bruno was wrong. Coon doesn't mention TEs in his section on the amnesty:

In order to submit a bid for a partial waiver claim, the bidding team must have cap room equivalent to the portion of their bid that would be charged to team salary in that season, plus the amount of any likely bonuses (see question number 72) for that season. If necessary, teams can create this cap room by waiving non-guaranteed players, but not by making trades. The team must make the cap room available immediately upon being awarded the amnesty claim.

http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q67

[DPG21920]

I looked at LC's CBA and you can bid on a waivered player using a TE if it's the normal waiver process. It appears that if they are on waviers via being amnestied, you have to have cap space with no exceptions.

[Russo21]

Cuban owes this guy another 27 million dollars. That is hilarious.

It is a crazy crazy world. A guy gets paid 27 million dollars to NOT play basketball for a certain team.

I work my ass off and get paid like 45 thousand a year.

Pretty fucked up the cash that gets thrown around.

[DPG21920]

Bruno you are in troubbbbbblllllllleeeeeeee :lol

[FuzzyLumpkins]

It is a crazy crazy world. A guy gets paid 27 million dollars to NOT play basketball for a certain team.

I work my ass off and get paid like 45 thousand a year.

Pretty fucked up the cash that gets thrown around.

That's fine as long as you acknowledge that an NBA franchise grosses $100s of millions and only has to hire maybe 100 people.

[Russo21]

Mavs are persuing elton brand also! Fucken hell

[Mel_13]

Mavs will get Brand.

[tmtcsc]

Mavs will get Brand.

Uh oh. Look out now. Kamman, Dirk and Brand ? Give 'em room.

[Knoxxx]

Not sure I am all that afraid yet, but if the Mavs keep signing every decent amnesty cast off then maybe.

[bigfan]

Haywood is not old, has talent, is big and has been unmotivated in Dallas. Coach Pop would light a fire under his ass and Id love to have him as a Spur (but from what Im reading, not much of a chance.)

[024]

i would not mind at all with haywood as the fourth big.

[BatManu20]

Mavs are persuing elton brand also! Fucken hell

Who cares? It's not like they're going to contend. they'll probably get the 7yh or 5th seed again and get bounced in the first round. Brand isn't very good anymore anyways.

[Bruno]

Maybe Bruno was wrong. Coon doesn't mention TEs in his section on the amnesty

It looks like it. I should have looked more closely because it's tricky: a trade exception can be used to claim a player from waivers but not to claim a part of his contract from waivers when he amnestied.

[Gregzilla]

Uh oh. Look out now. Kamman, Dirk and Brand ? Give 'em room.

who is that girl with the phatty? what movie..or show

[z0sa]

Would love to have Haywood tbh...

[Spurtacus]

Haywood, 32, is owed about $35 million in guaranteed money by the Mavericks through 2015. By using the amnesty, the Mavs open more cap space

:lol Mavs

[Kindergarten Cop]

who is that girl with the phatty? what movie..or show

Rachel McAdams in Morning Glory

[Gregzilla]

Rachel McAdams in Morning Glory

thanks :toast

[iManu]

So, if we amnesty Bonner, we will be quite a bit below the cap to make a play? I don't know where we're sitting.

[lakerhaterade]

It is a crazy crazy world. A guy gets paid 27 million dollars to NOT play basketball for a certain team.

I work my ass off and get paid like 45 thousand a year.

Pretty fucked up the cash that gets thrown around.

That pretty much means you're a loser.

If you bitch about your salary, go get yourself an education, network your pathetic ass and maybe then you'll get a shot at a higher salary.

[lakerhaterade]

Would love to have Haywood tbh...

He's 32 and past whatever prime he once exhibited.

He's done.

[shorttotry]

Pass. I'd rather stick with our roster.

[mountainballer]

if he signs for the minimum, (which is the only number the Spurs could offer anyway) fine.
maybe he wants to pull a Finley and tell Cuban "take this, you pay me 9 million $ per year to watch me play for your most hated rival"