Regarding next year, I can see Spurs being fine with spending a little luxury tax. They had a great year, the redistribution system has increased and they have saved a lot of money with the Jack trade.
The true number to look at is the "apron" number. Once a team use the LLE and/or more than the taxpayer MLE ($3.09M with 3 years contracts), there is a hard cap, the "apron" that is $4M above the luxury tax. Spurs will be $25.3M below the apron with 9 players under contract if Mills opt out. If Mills stay, they will be $24.4M below the apron with 10 players under contract. This space below the apron will be needed to re-sign Duncan, re-sign Green, sign players with the MLE, LLE or min contracts. Some trades could also be made because Spurs have some financial flexibility at the end of their roster. All in all, if Duncan new contract start above $12M per year, it could very well create an additional limitation at what Spurs will do this summer.
A question...couldnt the spurs restructure both jax and manu's contract for x number of years to cut down salary for this upcoming season? If so manu's and jax contracts total around 24-25 million. We could negotiate to clear up 5-7 million of this upcoming season to sign a more sought after talent. If this is way off please let me know
I have never heard of NBA contracts being re-structured...
NBA contracts can be re-negotiated but, unlike the NFL, it's very limited. One of the limitation is that this re-negotiation can only be an increase in salary. The idea of re-negotiating contracts to clear cap space doesn't work.
In the recent years, I remember only 3 players who have renegotiated their contract: Perkins, Blatche and Nick Collison. And the Collison extension isn't even valid with the new CBA.
I get that...but I thought I read somewhere in the new cba that on contracts 4 years or greater they can be renegotiated for more money....so wouldn't u be able to renegotiate these contracts for example...manu makes 14 million...extend his contract to 3 years 27 million and now he's making 9 million a year and clears up five million this year and at the same time locking him up for another two years. Same thing with jax...he makes 10 million so extend his contract two more years at a total of 21 million and now he makes 7 million a year and clears up 3 million in cap space this year while locking him up for another two years.
I think the point is that no individual yearly salary can go down in a renegotiation. Just giving them more money isn't enough.
^Yep.
There were a rumor saying that contracts could be restructured but it was false.
The only re-negotiation you can do with a one year $12M contract is an one year contract with a salary higher than $12M. In addition, teams can do that only if they are below the cap.
ok now I get it
Do we know when the cap for next year is going to be determined? Is it still expect to be at $58M?
Also what combination of Bonner amnesty + TD salary would generate enough cap space to sign Boris assuming the full MLE goes to Lorbek?
You can't use cap space and the exception.
If you're assuming the full MLE to Lorbek after we re-sign TD, the only money available to sign Boris would be the bi-annual (4m/2y).
In order to sign Lorbek and Diaw, SA would have to create enough cap space to sign both and SA wouldn't be able to use the MLE.
So a team MUST be at or over the cap in order to use the MLE/Bi-annual exceptions in the same season; that is, a team can't reach the cap threshold and then use the MLE all in the same summer? So really it doesn't matter how much TD gets next year, or whether Bonner is amnestied because we wouldn't be able to generate enough cap space to sign Boris, Lorbek, and De Colo anyway.
Then if the Spurs are really about bringing De Colo and Lorbek over, it seems to me that the writing is on the wall for Boris. Also short of a trade, it almost makes it certain the Bonner and Blair will be in the bigman rotation too.
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