The cap space is correct assuming the cap holds. Basically, what the article is saying is that if they want to have 28M in cap space, they would have to fill out their roster with minimum contracts. For every contract beyond that minimum, it would subtract from the cap space.
If you are being really technical, they could actually fill out one other spot for about 2M instead of the league min the cap hold assumes because they could use the Base Annual Exception contract for one spot, but that is splitting hairs and not central to the point of the article.
OK, what are the odds of that happening? Not only minimum contracts, but also 13 players and not 15.
Thanks for the help.
Well, it's not required to have 15 players (Spurs for example usually carry 13-14 until the end of the year) so it's not uncommon to have 13.
Point taken.
Thx for the help. Dont go anywhere...I might need you in the future.
No. The article is correct. By adding six roster charges, the league divides the cap space into seven parts. Essentially, teams must be able to pay 12 players before they can claim cap space. So the league adds 12 minus the number of players already signed roster charges rather than actually making the team sign those players to deals first.
For example, a person has 12 apples. He has to give then to seven different people, but he can decide who gets how many apples, provided everyone gets at least one. So before he can give out any apples, he has to divide them into seven baskets. By setting aside six apples at the start, he creates one group of six and six groups of one. He can redistribute the apples however he wants to after that, but the most he can give any one person is six.
In the NBA, the roster spots are the baskets, and the cap space is the apples. So long as each of the spots has at least $340k dedicated to it, everything is fine. So the Lakers have to divide their cap into seven slots, six with at least $340k and one with at most $22.2 Million.
tl;dr: You don't need to add a roster charge for the 13th spot, because that spot already has the remaining cap space allocated to it.
Last edited by Chinook; 11-25-2013 at 11:37 PM.
just like I originally predicted, Kobe wouldn't play for anything less than 20m a year
It'll be hilarious if he has a Derek Jeter-like season.
I think it's kobe's huge ego rather than his greed that drove him to demand that money imho. He wanted the continuity of his pride more than he wanted money (which he already has plenty of). Like, he's Kobe Bryant so he tells himself that he has to be the highest paid player as long as he plays in the game. A player like him with such a huge ego would never settle in a role like the TOSB duncan plays on the spurs, earning 1/2 or even 1/3 what he used to make.
those numbers in kobe's contract aren't arbitrary. 23.5 and 25 million represent the least amount of money kobe could take and still be the highest paid player in the league in 2014 and 2015 respectively. this is still some sad attempt by him to appear alpha as
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