Official 2016 Free Agency Thread

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  1. Kenzo

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    If anyone mentiones Luol Deng one more time, i'll riot ;).
     
  2. Lakers2015

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    What's wrong with Deng? As a backup I'd take him in a heartbeat.
     
  3. alam1108

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    So how about that Duol Leng?
     
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  4. therealdeal

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    The max breaks down as:
    0-6 = 25% of the cap
    7-9 = 30% of the cap
    10+ = 35% of the cap

    30% of the cap at 90 million would start at 27 million wouldn't it?
     
  5. therealdeal

    therealdeal Moderator Staff Member

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    In a reserve role? I'd love Luol Deng in a reserve role. Not too many minutes, good veteran leader, smart player. I like him.
     
  6. trodgers

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    It's not 30% of the cap; they use a different number to determine max contracts.

    From Coon's cap FAQ:
    2 They use a different cap calculation to determine the maximum salaries, which is based on 42.14% of projected BRI rather than 44.74%. In 2005 the sides negotiated a different formula for setting the salary cap but not maximum salaries, so the two became decoupled, and this continued in the 2011 agreement. For this reason the maximum salaries are not actually 25%, 30% or 35% of the cap, and instead are a slightly lower amount. For example, even though the salary cap for 2011-12 is $58.044 million and 25% of this amount is $14.511 million, the 0-6 year maximum salary is actually $12,922,194. In addition, for 2012-13 a 5.8% increase in maximum salaries was agreed to, even though the salary cap stayed the same as 2011-12.

    Examples:
    http://www.basketballinsiders.com/projecting-2015-2016-max-salary-tiers/
    http://nba.nbcsports.com/2015/07/08/nba-max-contract-values-for-2015-16/
     
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  7. therealdeal

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    Interesting. Thanks for posting.

    So I'm going to have to assume there's a percentage we're not privy to that gets them to 25.3 million? If they're off by 2.6% or so then wouldn't we come out even lower to 24.7 or so million?
     
  8. Juronimo

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    No Deng No Deal.
     
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    May this live in infamy
     
  10. trodgers

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    The 25.3 is allegedly accurate for a 90m cap.
     
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  11. therealdeal

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    I understand that, but that would make it 28% of the cap instead of 30%. The 2% number isn't constant across all the max projections, so there's some sort of scale or percentage that I don't know.
     
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    No idea why we let Ed Davis go. He would've been a perfect fit with this group.
     
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  14. lakersyunowin

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    But the Blazer's upheaval was pretty significant this offseason? Wes Matthews, Lamarcus Aldridge, and Nic Batum all went byebye. I mean I guess his point could apply anyways, but still.
     
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    He's one of the few players I wanted to keep around from the past couple seasons. Would have done well with Russell and PnRs
     
  16. LaVarBallsDad

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    Another guy I would target as a UFA: Timothy Mosgov
     
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    You're using the wrong "cap" calculation. 42.14% is 94% of 44.74%. 94% of 90m is the cap, for max salary purposes. That's 84.9m. 30% of that is the 25.4m.
     
  18. therealdeal

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    there you go. Couldn't figure out where I was making the mistake. Okay I'll start using these figures in my fancast for the next season. :Crazyartest:
     
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    Kind of ironic he says that after the Blazers just lost several key free agents....
     
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  20. trodgers

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    Isn't it absurd how complex this game has become?
     
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