Sac, Cle, Cha

[Emma]

Two Trades:

SAC - CHA
SAC out:
Brad Miller

SAC in:
Gerald Wallace
Sean May

Why? because it was offered, that's why. I'm just pilfering Sean May in the process. He expires this year any way.

SAC - CLE
SAC out:
John Salmons
Kenny Thomas

SAC in:
Wally Scszerbiak

Why? Because it makes sense for Cleveland and we get a huge expiring to replace Brad's.

The money factor:

24.97 out, all 2-3 year contracts
25.93 in, 16.43 expiring this year

That leaves us with 27.8 million to play with at the end of this year if we dont resign BJax, Shelden or Douby (6.5, 3.4, and 1.5 million respectively). I say we throw some money at Boozer and we have a line up like this.

Beno / Brown
Martin / ? / Cisco
Wallace / Cisco
Boozer / Thompson
Hawes / ?

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/featur...~849~2776~1026&teams=23~30~5~5~23~23&te=&cash=

 

[nbrans]

We'd have to get at least a young player or pick from Cleveland because an expiring contract on its own doesn't really get the Kings that far under the cap in '09, and I'm not sure that it's wroth giving up Salmons just for a little bit of cap room.

 

[Emma]

I just thought of what to do with that little bit of cap room:

Offer it to Ben Gordon. 28 million would get us Gordon and Boozer, 17 mil for Boozer, 11 for Gordon.

then we'd be:

Beno / Gordon / Brown
Martin / Gordon / Cisco
Wallace / Cisco / Greene
Boozer / Thompson
Hawes / Thompson / ?

BUT what do we do when we need to resign Hawes or JT? Hmmmmmmmmmm........

 

[nbrans]

We wouldn't have anything close to $28 million in cap room. It would be just a little more than the MLE.

 

[Emma]

We wouldn't have anything close to $28 million in cap room. It would be just a little more than the MLE.

Why not?

you shed 27 million at the end of the year and you only get the MLE?

OHHH my bad, uh... we would be nearing the Luxury tax threshold right? We're over the cap now anyway, so why not get as close as we can to that threshold?

 

[nbrans]

Start here: http://hoopshype.com/salaries/sacramento.htm

Kings have $66 million in salary committed next year.

Take away:
Shareef (medical exemption) -- $6.6 mil
KT -- $8.5 mil
$2 million of Brad's deal (Wallace instead of Brad)
Salmons - $5.5 mil

That adds up to about $22 million, which means $44 million in payroll. The cap will probably be around $58 million, so ok, $14 million in cap room.

I forgot about removing Shareef when I said a little more than the MLE. So maybe you do consider this, because $14 million is a pretty good amount. Of course, you're not going to get Boozer with that.

 

[Emma]

Start here: http://hoopshype.com/salaries/sacramento.htm

Kings have $66 million in salary committed next year.

Take away:
Shareef (medical exemption) -- $6.6 mil
KT -- $8.5 mil
$2 million of Brad's deal (Wallace instead of Brad)
Salmons - $5.5 mil
quote]

That thing aint all right:
Douby, Shelden, Mikki are all coming off the books as well. We won't pick any of their team options up (The last year of Mikki's contract has a team buyout option of 2 million). So you subtract another 10.6 Million, that leaves us with 25 million in cap space. Plus whatever you want to spend approaching the threshold. Easily 33 million dollars if we just wanted to stay at our current spending level.

Unless my math is just failing me right now.

 

[nbrans]

Start here: http://hoopshype.com/salaries/sacramento.htm

Kings have $66 million in salary committed next year.

Take away:
Shareef (medical exemption) -- $6.6 mil
KT -- $8.5 mil
$2 million of Brad's deal (Wallace instead of Brad)
Salmons - $5.5 mil
quote]

That thing aint all right:
Douby, Shelden, Mikki are all coming off the books as well. We won't pick any of their team options up (The last year of Mikki's contract has a team buyout option of 2 million). So you subtract another 10.6 Million, that leaves us with 25 million in cap space. Plus whatever you want to spend approaching the threshold. Easily 33 million dollars if we just wanted to stay at our current spending level.

Unless my math is just failing me right now.

Douby and Shelden already weren't counted. But yeah -- ok, another $4 million for Mikki. So $18 million.

 

[Emma]

Okay, so now we have this figured out, thank you sir!

BTW that threshold is 71.15 Million. So if the Maloofs really want to pay out we have +/- 30 million until they start paying the "Tax".

 

[SacKings7]

I just thought of what to do with that little bit of cap room:

Offer it to Ben Gordon. 28 million would get us Gordon and Boozer, 17 mil for Boozer, 11 for Gordon.

then we'd be:

Beno / Gordon / Brown
Martin / Gordon / Cisco
Wallace / Cisco / Greene
Boozer / Thompson
Hawes / Thompson / ?

BUT what do we do when we need to resign Hawes or JT? Hmmmmmmmmmm........

I doubt the Maloofs wanna pay Ben Gordon 11 mil to come off the bench behind Martin. And Gordon isn't a PG, he's a shooter

 

[TheRaven]

We'd have to get at least a young player or pick from Cleveland because an expiring contract on its own doesn't really get the Kings that far under the cap in '09, and I'm not sure that it's wroth giving up Salmons just for a little bit of cap room.

That, and you have to wonder how much the Cavs will mess with their team when they are doing so well right now. As far as getting a prospect/pick back our way, I would love to get J.J. Hickson. Rookie PF with a lot of potential.

 

[Big Cuz 15]

if we have caproom, we could help a struggling team w/ a star. ie, memphis w/ pau gasol. they wanted caproom+pick/kid. having caproom is a great thing while we are rebuilding. don't waste it on garbage players like gordon. hes a undersized shooter. those are dime a dozen players.

i like hickson alot too. that kid has some crazyhops

 

[DocHolliday]

Cisco's new deal kicks in next year as well.

 

[Entity]

How aboug Beno and Brad to To the bobcats for Wallace and Felton
then Salmons, Moore, Douby to Cleveland for Snow and Varajeo

 

[Section 101]

Start here: http://hoopshype.com/salaries/sacramento.htm

Kings have $66 million in salary committed next year.

Take away:
Shareef (medical exemption) -- $6.6 mil
KT -- $8.5 mil
$2 million of Brad's deal (Wallace instead of Brad)
Salmons - $5.5 mil

That adds up to about $22 million, which means $44 million in payroll. The cap will probably be around $58 million, so ok, $14 million in cap room.

I forgot about removing Shareef when I said a little more than the MLE. So maybe you do consider this, because $14 million is a pretty good amount. Of course, you're not going to get Boozer with that.

With the economy the way it is some are expecting the cap to go down next year. It's based off of revenue. Here is a list of items it goes off of:

What is included in Basketball Related Income (BRI)?

Basketball Related Income (BRI) essentially includes any income received by the NBA, NBA Properties or NBA Media Ventures. This includes:

• Regular season gate receipts
• Broadcast rights
• Exhibition game proceeds
• Playoff gate receipts
• Novelty, program and concession sales (at the arena and in team-identified stores within proximity of an NBA arena)
• Parking
• Proceeds from team sponsorships
• Proceeds from team promotions
• Arena club revenues
• Proceeds from summer camps
• Proceeds from non-NBA basketball tournaments
• Proceeds from mascot and dance team appearances
• Proceeds from beverage sale rights
• 40% of proceeds from arena signage
• 40% of proceeds from luxury suites
• 45% - 50% of proceeds from arena naming rights
• Proceeds from other premium seat licenses
• Proceeds received by NBA Properties, including international television, sponsorships, revenues from NBA Entertainment, the All-Star Game, the McDonald's Championship and other NBA special events.