Jared Zwerling @JaredZwerling
The NBA has announced that the salary cap for the 2013-14 season will be $58.679 million.
Ken Berger @KBergCBS
NBA's salary cap set at $58.679M, and luxury-tax line at $71.748M for '13-'14 season, league announces.
This is the expected/assumed number.
Bruno pretty much on target with projecting the salary cap.
From reading Bruno's posts in the salary thread in the think tank the cap seems to be what Bruno predicted it to be.
A little higher than the consensus $58.5 estimate, but not enough to make a difference. Pendergraft getting that 2/$4 deal pretty much gave away that the Spurs were going to stay over the cap and use the MLE.
Damn you Bonner
A trade is the only way to do it without amnestying Parker. The salary cap is pretty much what we've expected it to be for the past month or so.
Do you (in all honesty) believe Minnesota has incentive to make it happen?
The cap room route: If the Spurs renounce everybody except for Manu and Tiago, amnesty Bonner and use the Room Exception on Belinelli they could be $6.7mil under the cap. $2 of that is going to Pendergraft. That leaves $4.7 which does not beat the MLE. The Spurs would have to salary dump somebody to beat the MLE.
The over the cap route: The Spurs get to keep Bonner, as well as RFA rights to Blair and Neal. Belinelli and Pendergraft basically use up all the MLE. Spurs can trade and sign guys to league min deals.
I have no idea what this means
He seems to be on target with alot of stuff, one of the few I actually will read when he posts in here.
The Spurs still have the $7 million Horry cap hold they never planned to use cap space to sign players.
I would think they will use every available tool to upgrade roster and get their payroll up as close to the luxury tax limit as possible though. No way they run a $60 million payroll expecting closer to $70 million.
I expect Mills Neal De Colo Bonner and Blair to all be trade fodder with Spurs looking to take on more salary but no rj-type bad long term
contracts. With many friends around the league this should be doable.
Would someone in the know please explain this?
Jerry Zgoda @JerryZgoda
Tomorrow could be big day for Wolves to swing s-t or get outbid for C Brewer, who wants to come back. Hearing he's aiming for 4 yrs, $19M
Good thing you don't own or general manage an NBA team.I have no idea what this means
Would someone in the know please explain this?
They never renounced his rights after he retired. Hasn't mattered because the team has consistently operated above the cap. When you see a team that had to clear the decks for free agents (Miami - http://www.storytellerscontracts.inf...rces/Miami.htm), they will have renounced basically everyone. According to this site, we have cap holds on the Damon Stoudamires and Nick Van Exels of the world still. If we were to be a cap player, those would disappear in a heartbeat.
Spurs get Kirilenko, Wolves get Brewer, Nuggets get draft picks, de colo, etc?
Works in the Lakers front office.Good thing you don't own or general manage an NBA team.
Thanks. How could the cap hold help us this year?
Until you renounce a player a cap hold remains based on their last salary. Until you are serious about signing high dollar free agents you want to retain cap holds so you can still use the larger $ 5 million mid level exception I think annually.
That is why you will see weird things like Horry's cap hold sticking around years after he retired. Check sham sports-known to be very accurate and still shows the Horry hold.
It can't. Under the prior CBA teams were able to "Keith VanHorn" guys into trades, but the new CBA took away that possibility. A guy has to be on your roster the previous year for you to be able to trade him.
Which is why one of those guys on the Knicks is going to get some free money to get signed and sent to Toronto in the Bargnani trade because they couldn't finalize the trade before July 1. Quentin Richardson is smiling...
Yes we can hope. A move like this is far more plausible then the Spurs standing pat with 8 mostly small guards on their roster plus market able assets like Bonner and Blair. We are a perfect match for a salary dumping team since we can add $10 to $15 milllion in salary plus whatever salaries we trade away. No way Spurs will stand pat willingly and waste Duncan's twilight years with a $60 million payroll when luxury tax limit is over $70 million. You can bet Spurs FO is exploring every option here with other teams. Explains why news on guys like Blair and Neal has been so sparse too as they are in limbo.
It wasn't a projection on my part. The $58.5M figure came from the NBA in May based on the financial numbers they had at that time.
Earlier this season, when they weren't projections made by the NBA released, I was guesstimating a cap significantly higher ($62M). I was wrong on that.
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