LeBron to Lakers or Mavericks??

[turiaf for president]

ok u both are a confusing people lol.

salary cap is about 60 mil. it increases a bit each year but not much.

the knicks have 100 million pay roll in witch 60-65 will come off by 2010. if their payroll is 45 million like u guys are saying, the salary cap will be about 60 mil so they have 15 million to spend to go after free agents. They cant sign anyone after their salary cap is filled to 60 million UNLESS it is their own free agent.

kind of like how the clippers were trying to sign baron davis because they were 20 million under the cap after elton brand opting out. after davis filled up the 12 million he signed for per year the clippers had 8 million under the cap to sign anyone. they offered brand 13-14 mil a year. if brand wasnt a clipper, they could not have signed him to 13-14 a year because that would put them over the cap. however since brand was a clipper they were able to sign him to a higher contract and go over the salary cap. theres a small percentage of leeway that u can go over the cap.

Now IF u are over that small gap, the league taxes you dollar for dollar for each dollar u are over the cap. so back to the kicks example

45 million committed in salaries.

lebron and wade = 40 mil a year (hypotheically speaking)

thats 85 million. they cannot sign both because they were not a knick and a salary cap of about 60-62 million would prevent them from signing them.

now if they signed lebron at 20, taht would make their payroll at 65 mil. They cannot sign any more free agents but they can sign their own free agents to get them over the cap but dolan would have to pay a dollar for dollar tax.

im guessing you both know this but didnt word it correctly

[Allanon]

Exactly, well written Turiaf, and that's what I said:

LeBron + Wade ~ $45 million. They'll have $15 million for bench guys.

And everybody knows they're trying to drop Zach and Eddy Curry so I wouldn't be surprised if they get rid of that $30 million combined salary by 2010.

I'm guessing in 2010, they'll have $30 million committed in salary with $70 million to spend that summer on LeBron and another Superstar, while keeping Jamal, Danilo & David Lee.