TRADE: 3WAY- Amir/Kurt Thomas to Mil, RJefferson to Spurs, Bowen/Oberto to FA

[Glenn]

The Pistons will also send some money.

I wonder if we'll get that back on Thursday by selling #15?

[Glenn]

Okay, so now let's sign Boozer & Gordon and do the Charlotte deal.

Chip-chop-chip.

[Glenn]

And Amir replaces Charlie V in Milwaukee, eh?

[Higherwarrior]

i hate to see amir go because he's still very young and i feel he could be something with a proper role.

but whatever- we'd better do something with all this cap room. i'm not content to just sign 2 big FAs. i say that because nobody in FA is really worth what we'll end up paying them so we still need an impact trade to shake the roster up more and bring even more talent and players who fit what we need to do. adding 2 guys to our current core is enough to make the playoffs again but not enough to get us where we want to go.

i hope we still make a REAL trade...

[RegicideGreg]

I thought if you bought out a player with a non-guaranteed contract that contract still counts against the cap in full. So even though the pistons would save money not paying oberto in full they in fact would lose $666,667 in cap space. Where am i wrong on this?

[Hermy]

I thought if you bought out a player with a non-guaranteed contract that contract still counts against the cap in full. So even though the pistons would save money not paying oberto in full they in fact would lose $666,667 in cap space. Where am i wrong on this?

Nah, non guaranteed deals don't count for cap/tax space before the season starts. It's just like not picking up an option.

Think about times when guys have been cut at the midpoint of the season in order to avoid the tax limit.

[Uncle Mxy]

We traded Amir for the second coming of Zelly?

We better have some really fucking good plans for that cap space.

[defrocked]

I believe only the guaranteed part counts against the cap.

We traded Amir for the second coming of Zelly?

We better have some really fucking good plans for that cap space.

Not like Amir was looking like anything special at this point.

[RegicideGreg]

defrocked I think you're right on that. I'll have to do some more reading on the CBA later.

[metr0man]

For good or ill our capspace is going to Boozer and Gordon. That's why we wanted to shave 1.7 million off payroll.