WTFchris
02-17-2010, 05:58 PM
Would the Spurs do this to cut tax dollars?:
Ratliff (1.3 mil) + Mason (3.8) + Bonner (3.2) + Haislip (0.4) for Kwame (4.1) + Wilcox (3.0)
Haislip would just be cut (no roster spot). All of them are expiring deals so we'd essentially get Wilcox off the books for free.
It wouldn't do a whole lot for us, but maybe Joe would then be willing to move Tay or RIP for any expiring deal to sign a decent FA next year (Lee?) with an extra 3 mil in space.
I'd still like to move Kwame for a pick and a one year deal, but this is another alternative.
The Miami Heat (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/clubhouse?team=mia) have indeed expressed interest in San Antonio’s Roger Mason (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=1721), but the Miami deal that interested the Spurs most is no longer possible.
The Spurs were hoping to tempt Miami into absorbing Mason’s $3.8 million expiring contract into a $4.3 million trade exception that would have enabled the teams to complete a deal without San Antonio needing to take back another player. A future second-round pick from the Heat would have completed the transaction.
But the Heat, dealing with their own luxury-tax issues like San Antonio and reluctant to add to their payroll, ultimately declined.
And the trade exception in question -- created through the departure of Marcus Banks (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=2165) in Miami’s Shawn Marion (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=510) trade with Toronto on Feb. 15, 2009 -- expired Monday at midnight.
The Spurs and Mason’s agent, Mark Bartelstein, have mutually agreed to pursue trades before Thursday’s 3 p.m. trading deadline, but it’ll take a new trade construction to get Mason to Miami now if the Heat want to try again.
San Antonio is more than $10 million over the luxury-tax threshold, so the deal proposed Monday to Miami would have cut its tax bill by nearly 40 percent. Miami is roughly $2.8 million over the tax threshold.
Ratliff (1.3 mil) + Mason (3.8) + Bonner (3.2) + Haislip (0.4) for Kwame (4.1) + Wilcox (3.0)
Haislip would just be cut (no roster spot). All of them are expiring deals so we'd essentially get Wilcox off the books for free.
It wouldn't do a whole lot for us, but maybe Joe would then be willing to move Tay or RIP for any expiring deal to sign a decent FA next year (Lee?) with an extra 3 mil in space.
I'd still like to move Kwame for a pick and a one year deal, but this is another alternative.
The Miami Heat (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/clubhouse?team=mia) have indeed expressed interest in San Antonio’s Roger Mason (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=1721), but the Miami deal that interested the Spurs most is no longer possible.
The Spurs were hoping to tempt Miami into absorbing Mason’s $3.8 million expiring contract into a $4.3 million trade exception that would have enabled the teams to complete a deal without San Antonio needing to take back another player. A future second-round pick from the Heat would have completed the transaction.
But the Heat, dealing with their own luxury-tax issues like San Antonio and reluctant to add to their payroll, ultimately declined.
And the trade exception in question -- created through the departure of Marcus Banks (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=2165) in Miami’s Shawn Marion (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=510) trade with Toronto on Feb. 15, 2009 -- expired Monday at midnight.
The Spurs and Mason’s agent, Mark Bartelstein, have mutually agreed to pursue trades before Thursday’s 3 p.m. trading deadline, but it’ll take a new trade construction to get Mason to Miami now if the Heat want to try again.
San Antonio is more than $10 million over the luxury-tax threshold, so the deal proposed Monday to Miami would have cut its tax bill by nearly 40 percent. Miami is roughly $2.8 million over the tax threshold.