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Re: cap issues





Alex Wang wrote:

> On the players making $10M+ per year:
> > M Jordan - $33.1 mill
> > P Ewing - $20.5 mill
> > H Grant - $14.3 mill
> > Shaq -  $12.9 mill
> > D Robinson - $12.4 mill
> > J Howard -  $11.3 mill
> > A Mourning - $11.3 mill
> > H Olajuwon - $11.2 mill
> > G Payton -  $10.5 mill
>
> Many of these contracts are back-loaded, that is, most of the money
> comes in later years. Walker's contract would probably be similar.
> If he got a 6 year, $101M contract as estimated by some writers,
> he'd "only" make around $10M his first year putting him near the bottom.
>
> Grant and Howard seem the most overpaid on this list. I think several
> players from the class of 95 will join this list or come very close:
> Shareef and maybe Iverson?
>
> Regarding Warwick's list of cap space:
> >Boston Celtics - $10,233,585
>
> I'm not sure about the rest of the list but this seems like a definite
> over-estimate. I believe we have around $28M of guaranteed contracts for
> next year (not including the draft pick) and the cap is not likely to go
> up to $38M.
>
> Alex

$30,000,000 cap

Players under contract (add 15% to each except Barros + Ellison who are on
the steady contract)
   Player                         Salary                NEXT Salary
Kenny Anderson ........    5,000,000           5,333,333
  Dana Barros ...........     3,400,000           3,400,000
  Greg Minor ............      2,160,000           2,304,000
  Pervis Ellison ........       2,090,000           2,090,000
  Travis Knight .........      2,000,000           2,133,333
  Antoine Walker ........    1,864,080           1,988,352
  Ron Mercer ............     1,768,320           1,886,206
  Andrew DeClercq ....... 1,200,000           1,280,000
  Walter McCarty ........      862,560             920,064
  Dontae' Jones .........        794,880             847,872
  Bruce Bowen ...........      422,500             450,666

My error, sorry folks, the correct answer (after waiving Edney, Tabak and
Jones) is $7,366,174

Warwick