Re: bewildered

[Kim <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, but they get to waive them before their opener and have them not count against their cap - special expansion draft benefit that makes the lower cap less of a written in stone concern. http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/sports/basketball/nba/charlotte_bobcats/7240357.htm

What's more true IMO is that they are unlikely to take just any large contracts, but may well take one or two at least one of which they drop like this, as part of special deals where they get other rewards for doing so from the teams they are relieving of cap problems. Also, don't forget that there's what you might call a salary floor (shoe?) along with a cap - i.e. a minimum teams have to spend on salaries http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#7

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Silva <vzd1s1hb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mar 2, 2004 6:15 PM
To: celtics@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: bewildered

The question at hand is not whether Raef is better than Blount or even if he
is worth his contract. It's who do you protect in the expansion draft. There
is no way the Bobcats take a 10 million dollar contract. They only have to
take 14 players from the 27 teams available. Add to that the fact that they
have a significantly lower salary cap it is unlikely they'll saddle
themselves with a large contract.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Niles" <shizzjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <karadag1@xxxxxxxxx>; <renrile@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:50 PM
Subject: RE: bewildered


> Raef has 3 years left after this year. After this year 40 million of his
> salary will have been paid meaning the C's owe him 30 mil over the next 3
> years. I don't think that is all that bad for a mobile passing big man who
> can shoot. I've never bought all the talk about how Raef is untradeable.