The blessing in getting JJ...

[Diesel]

We don't have big money for Curry.

If JJ gets 20 million. That means that we only have about 8 million left for other free agents... AND NO MLE.

We definitely overpaid for JJ... but over the next four yeas, he'd be about 12.5 million per... which isn't so bad.

Let's get Zsa Zsa and call it!

[djcorley]

That's not true at all...his first year salary is 12.5 if the Hawks give him 20 then the rest is in the form of a signing bonus. Only 12.5 will count against the cap this year.

[KB21]

The Hawks will still have around $12 million to spend on Curry, if they choose to do so.

[Vafan]

If we use 12.5 on JJ out of a 24 million cap space, we would have around 11 left right???

[Diesel]

I didn't know that the league still had Signing Bonuses.. I thought they went out 2 CBAs ago..

Anyway, that's good to know.

I just hope we don't do anything stupid like trade Al for Curry!

The real blessing in having JJ is that we now have a shooter who starts and one who comes off the bench...

We have gone from being LAC East to being Pho East!!!

[Inside_Man]

Hoopshype reports our salary at 17.06 for this year.

Add about 4 for Marvin and we're at 21.06.

Deduct 1.1 for Boris and we're at 19.969.

Add 12.5 for JJ and we're at 32.469.

The cap is at 49.5.

We still have 17.1 mil in cap space!

Now we need to sign Salim, and some combo of Donta, Zaza, and various role playes.

But I think we have more space than anyone is saying.

Where am I wrong?

Hoopshype Altanta salaries

[NickJYD]

Does that 5 million trade exception count against our cap for nex year? We need to sign Salim as well.

[KB21]

No. Phoenix gets a trade exception due to the differences in salaries that are being parlayed.

[AHF]

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I didn't know that the league still had Signing Bonuses.. I thought they went out 2 CBAs ago..

Anyway, that's good to know.

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They don't have signing bonuses. They do have an option to frontload a contract by accellerating payments from the later years in a contract, though. For cap purposes, the contract acts normally (i.e., initial salary in year 1, initial salary plus raise in year 2, etc.) but some of the actual payments under the contract are accellerated. Later in the deal, we will be paying less in actuality than the number that will be counting against the cap.

[Packfill]

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They don't have signing bonuses. They do have an option to frontload a contract by accellerating payments from the later years in a contract, though. For cap purposes, the contract acts normally (i.e., initial salary in year 1, initial salary plus raise in year 2, etc.) but some of the actual payments under the contract are accellerated. Later in the deal, we will be paying less in actuality than the number that will be counting against the cap.

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That kind of sucks. I thought the frontloading was a positive because the Hawks have plenty of room to absorb the 20 million this year and then could save money in future years to sign the young players coming off their rookie contracts.

[KB21]

The accelerated payment is averaged out over the length of the contract. So, if Atlanta is accelerating $10 million, which is essentially a signing bonus, that money will count $2 million per season on the cap.