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07-13-2004, 04:52 PM
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New Salary Cap Estimated at $43.9 million
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The mid-level exception is expected to come in at $4.95 million. Teams over the salary cap are given an extra $4.95 million to use to sign free agents. They can use it to sign one or multiple players.
A six-year contract for the full mid-level will be worth $37.125 million for teams signing another team's free agent. For team's resigning their own free agent, the full mid-level will be worth $38.9 million.
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As it stands now, the Clippers have $11.272 million in cap room. That means that the most the Clippers can offer Kobe is a six-year, $84.4 million contract. The Lakers, on the other hand, can offer Bryant a seven-year contract worth $136.4 million.
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The source also claims that the luxury tax threshold will likely be approximately $55 million this year. Again, the figure is around a million dollars lower than what teams had anticipated. Teams that had a payroll in 2003-04 over $55 million will have to pay the league a dollar for dollar tax on every penny spent over the threshold.
If the $55 million figure holds true, nine teams will be tax payers this year. Who are they? The Knicks will have the highest tax bill, an estimated $32.2 million. The Mavericks ($25.8 million), Blazers ($25.3 million) and Timberwolves ($16.4 million) also have enormous tax bills. The Pacers ($2 million), Lakers ($7.3 million), Nets ($6.3 million), Sixers ($4.3 million) and Kings ($8.5 million) were the other taxpayers.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/column...had&id=1839094
Interesting to find out that the league didn't earn as much as it anticipated, especially with this being the rookie year of LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony, the big markets like NY, LA and Detroit (atleast in terms of attendance) making big trades and driving up revenues and a string of exciting playoff games.
It's also quite possible David Stern and others in the financial department saw the ridiculous contracts of Adonal Foyle and company, and decided to lower the cap to make sure this wasn't the beginning of a new trend, or the beginning of higher demands from players for the new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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07-13-2004, 05:07 PM
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anyone know how hoopshype's salaries are off in this regard? they have the Clippers with only $30 mill in salary for next season, giving them almost 14 million under the cap. For some reason they still list Wang on the roster but they're missing Simmons' salary. Still, I have trouble believing they're only 11.2 mill under the cap. Anyone have confirmation of this?
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07-13-2004, 05:12 PM
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If thats all the Clips have, it would be a pretty sure bet Kobe stays in LA.
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07-13-2004, 05:17 PM
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Originally posted by JNice!
If thats all the Clips have, it would be a pretty sure bet Kobe stays in LA.
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Well, it's a pretty sure bet he'll stay in LA anyways. 
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Unsigned Free Agents: Sasha Vujacic, D.J. Mbenga, Ira Newble, Coby Karl, Joe Crawford
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07-13-2004, 05:21 PM
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Originally posted by Damian Necronamous!
Well, it's a pretty sure bet he'll stay in LA anyways.
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 Hardly a sure bet, but a difference in the contract of 40 or 50 million sure would make it one.
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07-13-2004, 05:31 PM
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Boston = Kryptonite
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Originally posted by JNice!
Hardly a sure bet, but a difference in the contract of 40 or 50 million sure would make it one.
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LOL, you missed it again.
Think about it for a second, "He'll stay in LA"....
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Current 2008-2009 LA Lakers Roster
PG: Derek Fisher, Jordan Farmar
SG: Kobe Bryant
SF: Lamar Odom, Trevor Ariza, Luke Walton
PF: Pau Gasol, Vladimir Radmanovic
C: Andrew Bynum, Chris Mihm
Unsigned Free Agents: Sasha Vujacic, D.J. Mbenga, Ira Newble, Coby Karl, Joe Crawford
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07-13-2004, 05:33 PM
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kiss my grits
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Originally posted by Damian Necronamous!
LOL, you missed it again.
Think about it for a second, "He'll stay in LA"....
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Gotcha. I'm a retard. 
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07-13-2004, 05:33 PM
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07-13-2004, 05:54 PM
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Originally posted by JNice!
Hardly a sure bet, but a difference in the contract of 40 or 50 million sure would make it one.
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The numbers are a little misleading, because the Lakers deal has an extra year. Let's calculate both deals over 7 years (the Clippers can extend him later, if they want, so let's just pretend that they extend him by a year at some point for the sake of equalizing years).
Lakers can start Kobe Bryant out at $15.12 million and offer 12.5% raises (from his first year salary) every season, which would be $1.62 million raises.
Year 1: 15.12
Year 2: 16.74
Year 3: 18.36
Year 4: 19.98
Year 5: 21.60
Year 6: 23.22
Year 7: 24.84
Total: $139.86 million ($19.98 million / year average)
(I'm not sure what the discrepancy is between my figure and the article's figure, but it's not a large difference...we might be starting from different reports of Kobe's salary from last year. I got my figure from: http://www.dfw.net/~patricia/misc/salaries04.txt )
Clippers can start Kobe Bryant out at $11.272 million and offer 10% raises (from his first year salary) every season, which would be (approximately) $1.13 million raises.
Year 1: 11.272
Year 2: 12.402
Year 3: 13.532
Year 4: 14.662
Year 5: 15.792
Year 6: 16.922
Year 7: 18.052
Total: $102.634 million ($14.662 million/year average)
(At year 6, my figure for the Clippers jibed nearly perfectly with the article's figure, incidentally.)
So, there's still a $37.2 million difference over the life of the contract or an approximate $5.3 million / year difference on average (the difference between the two offers is slightly less if the article's figure for the Lakers' deal is correct). Which is significant, but not nearly as sizable as the supposed $52 million difference that reports make it sound like.
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07-13-2004, 05:58 PM
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Originally posted by SkywalkerAC!
anyone know how hoopshype's salaries are off in this regard? they have the Clippers with only $30 mill in salary for next season, giving them almost 14 million under the cap. For some reason they still list Wang on the roster but they're missing Simmons' salary. Still, I have trouble believing they're only 11.2 mill under the cap. Anyone have confirmation of this?
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Hoopshype doesn't include the guaranteed salary for the players drafted but not yet signed (Livingston in this case), but those players do count against the cap at the rookie scale. Livingston counts for about $2.5 million based on being the 4th pick.
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07-13-2004, 06:01 PM
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Originally posted by SkywalkerAC!
anyone know how hoopshype's salaries are off in this regard? they have the Clippers with only $30 mill in salary for next season, giving them almost 14 million under the cap. For some reason they still list Wang on the roster but they're missing Simmons' salary. Still, I have trouble believing they're only 11.2 mill under the cap. Anyone have confirmation of this?
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Clippers bought out Wang Zhizhi's contract so they are still paying him and will have to pay him next season.
Clippers' salary info in hoopshype is missing couple of things:
1. Bobby Simmons' contract
2. Shaun Livingston's rookie cap-hold
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New Salary Cap Estimated at $43.9 million
