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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