JayBirdHawk

This has been my stance from the jump and remains so today.

If we waive him by June 29th, he will count as $5 mil in dead money for next seasons cap.

Here's another little nugget (bolded) regarding trading a non-guaranteed contract and having his new team waive him: Under the current CBA, only the guaranteed portion of a player’s contract counts for outgoing salary purposes in a trade, limiting the appeal of non-guaranteed salaries as trade chips. This detail is crucial for determining how much salary a team can acquire in a trade — unless a team is under the cap, the amount of salary it sends out in a trade dictates how much salary it can take back. The amount of salary an over-the-cap team can acquire in a trade ranges from 125% to 175% of its outgoing salary, depending on how much salary the team is sending out and whether or not the team is a taxpayer. In the old system, it might make sense for a cap-strapped club to trade a player with a guaranteed salary for a player earning an equivalent non-guaranteed salary — the cap-strapped club could then waive that newly-acquired player to cut costs. That’s trickier to do now. Complicating matters further is that a team can’t simply circumvent the new rules by trading a player before a league year ends on June 30, then having his new team waive him when his non-guaranteed salary goes into effect on July 1. After the end of the regular season, a player’s outgoing salary for trade purposes is the lesser of his current-year salary and the guaranteed portion of his salary for the following season.

Bulls can offer a 5 year deal with 8% raises each year....in a SnT deal every other team is limited to a 4yr deal and 5% raises each year.

Hawks 2022-23 guaranteed Salaries. PG: Young (36.6) SG: Huerter(14.5) Bogi (18) SF: Hunter (9.8) PF: Collins (23.5), Johnson (2.7), Gallo (5) C - Capela (19.7), Okongwu (6.3) TOTAL Guaranteed Salary = $136.1 million

The proverbial bar for Trae is just 'different' - I don't get it! People still have difficulty with their early first impression calling him a bust.

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@Diesel

Only Facts .

No it won't. These are our guaranteed Salaries: PG: Young (36.6) SG: Huerter(14.5) Bogi (18) SF: Hunter (9.8) PF: Collins (23.5), Johnson (2.7), Gallo (5) C - Capela (19.7), Okongwu (6.3) TOTAL Guaranteed Salary = $136.1 million, so no available capspace to offer a FA big money. Regarding Luxury Tax, you just can't sign a FA to get into the tax, it'll have to be by trading and/or resigning our own FAs.

I used to be one, and it really used to frustrate me why teams were making moves and we seemed stuck. So I took Hawksfanatic crash course.

Hawks don't have capspace to offer top dollar. Salary cap is $122 million. Luxury Tax is $149 million. Hawks have $136.1 in guaranteed salary. Hawks have the Mid Level Exception of $10.2 million.

Yes.

Detroit can't give them their top pick this year anyway since the draft occurs before FAcy, it will have to be a future pick and will most likely be a lottery protected pick.

Congrats!!

Detroit has capspace to offer Ayton a max deal outright and force the Suns to match which we know they are reluctant to do.

You are missing the key word 'feel'

Sign and Trade and BYC Rule: Signed-and-traded players can be difficult to salary-match in trades. There’s one scenario in which a sign-and-trade may genuinely make sense — if a free agent wants to join a team without cap room. However, even that scenario can’t necessarily be handled like a normal trade, since the Base Year Compensation (BYC) rule often applies. The BYC rule applies to a specific circumstance. If a player is being signed-and-traded via Early Bird or Bird rights by a team above the salary cap, gets a raise of at least 20%, and his salary is worth more than the minimum, his cap figure for salary-matching purposes will be affected. For the team acquiring him, his full salary would apply in a trade. For the team trading him, he would count for his previous salary or 50% of his new salary, whichever is greater. Let’s use Lowry as an example one more time, and assume he signs a full max deal with a starting salary of about $35MM. Since he would fit the BYC criteria, Lowry would count for $35MM for salary-matching purposes for his new team in a sign-and-trade, but would only count for $17.5MM from the Raptors’ perspective.

The Nutty!

Shall we play the game that's sweeping the Squawk.......WHO was the holdout?

You had a tantrum Followed by a meltdown It was glorious

I'm sure there are some long receipts to pull from all of us...no shame in eating crow

We'd have his dead cap on the books. Hawks will still have no capspace. Salary cap is $122 million. With Gallo's $5 mil guarantee Hawks will have $130 million in salaries.