Re: Bskball.com Column

["j.hironaka" <j.hironaka@unesco.org>]

Thanks Mark, that's what I thought (but I was starting to doubt myself for 
a second after the Josh-Chris interview). In this regard, Chris Wallace is 
being a bit disingenuous in talking about maintaining roster flexibility. 
I'm not really up in arms about this though, as a fan.

I can imagine, however, that even some decent veteran players might 
eventually settle for a decent one year contract offer for Boston, if it 
were offered. The trick obviously is to avoid the luxury cap next summer 
when Pierce's extension kicks in, yet have enough supporting talent this 
year so that the Celtics young nucleus can take the next step in terms of 
maturity/experience by finally making the playoffs.


At 08:42 20/09/01 -0400, Berry, Mark  S wrote:
>Hi Joe,
>Anyone with a guaranteed contract who is cut counts against the salary cap,
>but not against the roster. You can only have 15 players on the roster, but
>you can have countless players taking up cap space. So signing a guy like
>Khalid El-Amin to a cheap, guaranteed contract was a no-lose
>situation-unless you're worried about cutting a guy making less than
>$500,000.
>
>Mark