From:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/basketball/cst-spt-classic28.html
"Rose studied updates from each game and said he wasn't discouraged. He's also keeping abreast of the Bulls' free-agent plans, though he has his eye on next year's crop, which includes Tim Duncan, Jason Kidd and Jermaine O'Neal.
"If you look at the list of free agents this year, it's not in the same class as 2003,'' Rose said. "We probably won't sign any long-term contracts or anything significant until 2003.
"But hopefully, we can find a veteran who can help us."
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Well I checked and if we either didn't pick up the options on Bagaric/Fizer/Crawford or traded them for an ending contract we would have only $30.7 million on our cap (not including a probable lottery pick). We accomplish the same thing by trading ERob for an ending contract but good luck so I'm not considering it. At best the salary cap might go back to where is was at or around $43 mill. So the most we could clear would be a projected $12.7 million or enough for a full max salary. Our core would be:
Williams
Rose/Hassell (option picked up)
Robinson
Chandler
Curry
If we keep JC we would be $10.1mill under or MF $9mill under but obviously deeper with one of them. So it is still possible, but once the 1st rounder counts it gets even harder. Maybe we trade one away now then trade the other before the draft w/ the pick for next years version of Andre Miller etc. Young star thats needs to be moved. Regardless it is a ton of trouble to just get the chance to do something and seems rather unlikely considering our past problems. It also seems likely Rose was probably just responding to Webber's comments with a litle wishful thinking, but there is still a slight chance since it is possible.
Now OT of 2003 FA's could'nt we say the same thing to R.Lewis this summer? Say sign here for $4.5 mill 1 yr. then we will clear out cap room for you next year and start you at $8 etc. (we wouldn't need bird rights with the cap room). If he walks we lose nothing if we were trying to clear cap room anyway. If no one signs then it still backfires, but Lewis would still struggle to find a better deal next year than what we could offer. It is certainly a better argument than sign with us for 3yr $15 mill we might be a good team then.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/basketball/cst-spt-classic28.html
"Rose studied updates from each game and said he wasn't discouraged. He's also keeping abreast of the Bulls' free-agent plans, though he has his eye on next year's crop, which includes Tim Duncan, Jason Kidd and Jermaine O'Neal.
"If you look at the list of free agents this year, it's not in the same class as 2003,'' Rose said. "We probably won't sign any long-term contracts or anything significant until 2003.
"But hopefully, we can find a veteran who can help us."
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Well I checked and if we either didn't pick up the options on Bagaric/Fizer/Crawford or traded them for an ending contract we would have only $30.7 million on our cap (not including a probable lottery pick). We accomplish the same thing by trading ERob for an ending contract but good luck so I'm not considering it. At best the salary cap might go back to where is was at or around $43 mill. So the most we could clear would be a projected $12.7 million or enough for a full max salary. Our core would be:
Williams
Rose/Hassell (option picked up)
Robinson
Chandler
Curry
If we keep JC we would be $10.1mill under or MF $9mill under but obviously deeper with one of them. So it is still possible, but once the 1st rounder counts it gets even harder. Maybe we trade one away now then trade the other before the draft w/ the pick for next years version of Andre Miller etc. Young star thats needs to be moved. Regardless it is a ton of trouble to just get the chance to do something and seems rather unlikely considering our past problems. It also seems likely Rose was probably just responding to Webber's comments with a litle wishful thinking, but there is still a slight chance since it is possible.
Now OT of 2003 FA's could'nt we say the same thing to R.Lewis this summer? Say sign here for $4.5 mill 1 yr. then we will clear out cap room for you next year and start you at $8 etc. (we wouldn't need bird rights with the cap room). If he walks we lose nothing if we were trying to clear cap room anyway. If no one signs then it still backfires, but Lewis would still struggle to find a better deal next year than what we could offer. It is certainly a better argument than sign with us for 3yr $15 mill we might be a good team then.