[ClutchFans] Houston Rockets Salary Cap Update: 2019 Offseason Pre-Draft Edition

Doesn't have to be Bima, but I've wondered, how come Lakers are even in the discussion to trade for Anthony Davis? If you take all of their tradeable assets it still doesn't work salary wise? What am I missing?

 

Lakers have salary cap space to absorb AD's contract. So the stuff sent back to N.O. is just value assets.

 

Thank you. I was trying with ESPN trade machine and figured there was something simple not being considered.

 

What about signing him to a 1 year for the max allowed (I guess that's $16.2?) plus a team option for a second using his bird rights with the idea being to create a mid sized expiring to help facilitate incoming salary after December 15 ?

Does that work within the CBA since its not technically a S&T?

 

I forgot about BYC …. I knew there was a catch. Doesn't that also change the money available to take back ?

As for veto rights , I think you'd make it clear at signing this was your intent …. You want $13m pass on those veto rights otherwise go make the min somewhere.

I cant see them giving him a deal like that , unless everything else failed …. The backup plan to the backup plan.

They could also do something similar with GG and his early bird rights which let them pay him the league average , something like $9.6?

 

Would a two-year, mostly non-guaranteed deal be included in luxury tax calculations if waived after the Dec. 15 trade deadline? I know it's unlikely to happen, but if not, I wonder if there is any salary cap downside to such a deal for the first part of the season. I would hope Tilman would not balk at the cost of such trade filler, but I also appreciate that having said trade filler may not be very valuable.

This is exactly the sort of scenario I was wondering about. Thanks for the discussion, guys.

 

I thought that a deal for Shumpert (for trade purposes) had to be fully guaranteed the first year but subsequent years could be non guaranteed.

 

Thank you.

Do you think a S&T is very likely, with the Rockets taking back a player on a longer guaranteed contract?

 

I'd think if we signed Shump for a possible deal after Dec. 15th (or January 15th) that the most logical contract would be multiple years with only first year guaranteed. And that first year might need to be relatively high to get him to agree to that sort of deal.

This would be if we finished the rest of our business and didn't have to worry about a hard cap.

For instance.... let's pretend he's agreeable to 2/24 guaranteed. If he is, then he would probably be agreeable to a 2/40 desk partially guaranteed. We guarantee him 23.1 million next season... with a partial guarantee of 1 million if he hasn't been cut by July 1, 2020. Then we guarantee him another 1-3 million if he hasn't been cut by Oct 1, 2020.

That way at the deadline we've got a $23.1 million marker that would allow us to ingest a salary of up to $28.975 million (hmmmm), simply by sending out Shump and possibly a pick.... or maybe receive a pick back.

And that contract also may need tradeable to a team with cap space along with a pick that works create a nice big TPE for future trade flexibility.

You can skew those numbers however you like depending on what else we add to the roster in the form of expirings and what we could get Shump to agree to regarding partial guarantees on 20-21 season and whether we are hard capped or not.

Shump's situation and future contract could turn into the swiss army knife of our salary cap and transactions this summer.

 

Given where we are with the ltax and no draft picks, our options are highly limited. Daryl likes to set his true roster post trade deadline. Signing a bloated one year - under the 13.2 - is a highly likely scenario if we don’t trade Paul or Capela.

 

Meanwhile we can sign what... a mid level exemption?

 

Here is what things are projected to look like roster-wise as of now:

1)CP3
2)Chiozza
3)Gordon
4)Harden
5)Frazier
6)Green (assuming he resigns for min)
7)Clark
8)PJ Tucker
9)House
10)Capela
11)Hartenstein
12)Taxpayer MLE
13)min (Shump?)
14)min
15)min

 

Meanwhile the Lakers have sucked for the last six years (and laughing stock of the league last couple).
Rockets could do that too and have a ton of cap space in 2025, but I'm guessing that's not what any of us want.

 

If they win the NBA championship this coming season, and possibly the next after that... I don't know, I think I'd rather that. Seems to have worked for the Astros.