nutmeged3

I don't think his salary counts anything against the cap. We paid the 1.5 million buyout to have him removed from our pay roll. That's what I hope atleast and if it's not true then this move makes even less sense

Diable

http://hoopshype.com/salaries/charlotte.htm
According to this he counts 1.5 million against the cap this year and we've got 34.24 million in salaries now.That would leave just over 19 million if the cap is still 53 point something million like it was last year.In other words you can probably expect us to re-sign Gerald and then do something else that would leave us with no capspace and we'll end up over the cap substantially when/if we extend Emeka.

I don't think that counts wasting a million on Jared Dudley either.

I guess that once we're over the cap we could use the MLE to make another stupid move.Maybe someone needs to remind Adam Morrison that we don't have to give him that 4 million next year.If what I am speculating on happens and he continues to suck we won't have the luxury of exercising his option next year.

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nutmeged3

So I guess Carroll's gone as well? I can't see him taking a discount since this is probably the only time he'll be able to cash in and we need to go get a backup PG so that'll take up the money we were going to give to him

Diable

I don't remember what Matt got last year.Emeka's extension won't count until next year actually....If we get a cheap backup point we'll have money for Matt...But if we went after Williams or Billups that would put us over the cap.If we went after any other high dollar FA's and went over the cap we could use part of the MLE(6 million) on Matt or anyone else.I really haven't thought about what Carroll will cost...I'd two or three million would be close.
After looking him up at basketball-reference.com he made 1.188 last year.Actually we might go after Kapono to replace him,but he'd be relatively expensive.

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nutmeged3

Kapono's more of a though 3 isn't he? He and Carroll play similarly but I'd think were way overloaded at the SF position now. My guess is if Carroll leaves DA or Alan Anderson gets brought back for cheap

dnbman

We've already let Kapono go once. Carroll is about as good as Kapono and more beloved in Charlotte. I think we'll resign him for a contract around 3 million.