Glenn
08-09-2007, 02:41 PM
I've been trying to do some outside of the box thinking about how the roster can be improved without Billy D having to play the luxury tax.
One way that this could be done would be if the Pistons used the trade exception that they received from trading Carlos Delfino.
Delfino's salary is $1,868,141, so the Pistons now have a trade exception (good for one year from the date of the trade) in that amount.
In a normal trade, salaries have to match within 125% of each other, but when you use a trade exception to acquire a player, you can only use the actual value of the exception plus $100K (per Larry Coon).
That means the Pistons could acquire a player from another team that makes as much as $1,968,141.
The nice thing about going this route is that the Pistons currently have about $1.7m under the tax threshold (source) (http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4873/pistonssalaries0708revipt4.jpg), so either they could keep the salary of the incoming player under $1.7m to keep under the threshold, or they could use the full $1.968m and the tax damage would be pretty minimal (actually the PR value of being able to tell fans "Hey, we paid the luxury tax" might be more valuable than the amount of the tax itself, but I digress).
Here's another advantage of going this route. They might be able to pluck a pretty decent player from a team that is currently over the tax threshold. For example, if a team is currently over the tax threshold, and we were to take a player that makes $1.968m in salary from them in exchange for our exception, it would actually save the other team almost $4m in salary and taxes, which is pretty appealing.
Now we have the issue of creating a roster spot for the new incoming player. I think Lindsey retiring is probably the easiest way to do this, and it probably makes the most sense too.
So if you've made it this far reading this long-ass post, here's the question, who are some players in the $1.968m or under-range that we might be able to aquire from teams that are over the tax threshold?
Thanks for reading, and good night now.
One way that this could be done would be if the Pistons used the trade exception that they received from trading Carlos Delfino.
Delfino's salary is $1,868,141, so the Pistons now have a trade exception (good for one year from the date of the trade) in that amount.
In a normal trade, salaries have to match within 125% of each other, but when you use a trade exception to acquire a player, you can only use the actual value of the exception plus $100K (per Larry Coon).
That means the Pistons could acquire a player from another team that makes as much as $1,968,141.
The nice thing about going this route is that the Pistons currently have about $1.7m under the tax threshold (source) (http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4873/pistonssalaries0708revipt4.jpg), so either they could keep the salary of the incoming player under $1.7m to keep under the threshold, or they could use the full $1.968m and the tax damage would be pretty minimal (actually the PR value of being able to tell fans "Hey, we paid the luxury tax" might be more valuable than the amount of the tax itself, but I digress).
Here's another advantage of going this route. They might be able to pluck a pretty decent player from a team that is currently over the tax threshold. For example, if a team is currently over the tax threshold, and we were to take a player that makes $1.968m in salary from them in exchange for our exception, it would actually save the other team almost $4m in salary and taxes, which is pretty appealing.
Now we have the issue of creating a roster spot for the new incoming player. I think Lindsey retiring is probably the easiest way to do this, and it probably makes the most sense too.
So if you've made it this far reading this long-ass post, here's the question, who are some players in the $1.968m or under-range that we might be able to aquire from teams that are over the tax threshold?
Thanks for reading, and good night now.