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Re: Baron Davis opts out
Elton Brand said on Monday that he is opting out of the final year of his contract with the Los Angeles Clippers, but that he hopes to re-sign with the team.
"We're opting out," Brand said. "It definitely doesn't mean I'm leaving the Clippers. We're trying to work it out. My intention is to stay."
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Brand is forgoing the $16.4 million on the last year of his deal, a final decision he made at Monday's deadline to notify the team and the league. Earlier in the day, teammate Corey Maggette filed the paperwork to opt out of his contract, the Los Angeles Times reported, creating potentially $10 million of salary cap space if the Clippers do not re-sign him.
Brand's agent, David Falk, said the forward wants to see the Clippers sign a quality free agent and try to assemble a winning team in Los Angeles.
"It preserves options to make the team better," Falk said. "Clearly, if Elton decided he wanted to simply max out the dollars, he would have stayed in the deal, had a monster year and a lot more teams will have cap room next year."
Brand now has the right to leave the Clippers without compensation. Yet it's more likely that he would push for a sign-and-trade to a new team if he can't negotiate a new long-term deal to his liking with L.A, which Falk insists is Brand's preferred scenario.
Memphis and Philadelphia are the only teams with the requisite salary-cap space this summer to make sufficiently lucrative offers to sign Brand away from the Clippers outright. Even the Sixers despite their publicly stated interest in acquiring a power play might not have enough with an estimated $11 million to offer for a first-year salary.
Elton Brand said on Monday that he is opting out of the final year of his contract with the Los Angeles Clippers, but that he hopes to re-sign with the team.
"We're opting out," Brand said. "It definitely doesn't mean I'm leaving the Clippers. We're trying to work it out. My intention is to stay."
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Brand is forgoing the $16.4 million on the last year of his deal, a final decision he made at Monday's deadline to notify the team and the league. Earlier in the day, teammate Corey Maggette filed the paperwork to opt out of his contract, the Los Angeles Times reported, creating potentially $10 million of salary cap space if the Clippers do not re-sign him.
Brand's agent, David Falk, said the forward wants to see the Clippers sign a quality free agent and try to assemble a winning team in Los Angeles.
"It preserves options to make the team better," Falk said. "Clearly, if Elton decided he wanted to simply max out the dollars, he would have stayed in the deal, had a monster year and a lot more teams will have cap room next year."
Brand now has the right to leave the Clippers without compensation. Yet it's more likely that he would push for a sign-and-trade to a new team if he can't negotiate a new long-term deal to his liking with L.A, which Falk insists is Brand's preferred scenario.
Memphis and Philadelphia are the only teams with the requisite salary-cap space this summer to make sufficiently lucrative offers to sign Brand away from the Clippers outright. Even the Sixers despite their publicly stated interest in acquiring a power play might not have enough with an estimated $11 million to offer for a first-year salary.
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Re: Baron Davis opts out
Any chance he's looking for MLE money?
Any chance he's looking for MLE money?
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Re: Baron Davis opts out
Certainly not good for us... if he stayed, then GS would have reason to trade for expirings and a few assets. But now, if they did a sign and trade, they would have to take on a good 13-14 million dollars of salary just for maybe AV, who they'd have to resign, and a few first rounders.
Certainly not good for us... if he stayed, then GS would have reason to trade for expirings and a few assets. But now, if they did a sign and trade, they would have to take on a good 13-14 million dollars of salary just for maybe AV, who they'd have to resign, and a few first rounders.
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Re: Baron Davis opts out
wonder if this is part of some deal that the Warriors already have worked out with some team? just seems odd that he would opt out with so few teams having cap space to sign him to big deal unless he already knew there was a sign and trade out there to get him that deal.
wonder if this is part of some deal that the Warriors already have worked out with some team? just seems odd that he would opt out with so few teams having cap space to sign him to big deal unless he already knew there was a sign and trade out there to get him that deal.
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Re: Baron Davis opts out
Ranking the best available free agents
By Chad Ford
ESPN.com
Updated: June 29, 2008
With the NBA draft now come and gone, fans who were disappointed by their team's picks (or lack thereof) can now look forward to Tuesday, July 1, for their team to try to add pieces to the puzzle.
Since we wrote our last free-agent update in February, the free-agent market has shifted considerably. A number of NBA veterans who had the option of opting out of their contracts chose not to, leaving a very weak crop of unrestricted free agents. Combine that with only a handful of teams with potential cap room and you have what could be a pretty lackluster summer.
Last summer, a large group of free agents -- restricted and unrestricted -- faced the reality of the NBA's new frugality, which has created practically a hard salary cap. Only a few players came away with big deals, and only a handful found anything near the money that free agents typically get on the open market.
The news doesn't get much better for the free-agent class of 2008. Given our current projections, only three teams -- the Memphis Grizzlies, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Clippers -- will have enough money under the cap to spend on them, assuming a $59 million salary cap this summer.
The Grizzlies got under the cap by trading away Pau Gasol for expiring contracts at the trade deadline. But Memphis GM Chris Wallace has been sending signals that the team might not spend its estimated $15 million in cap room this summer. The Grizzlies are hinting that they will wait until the summer of 2009, when they have more cap room.
The Sixers could potentially have around $20 million in cap space, if they were willing to waive both Andre Iguodala and Louis Williams to reach that figure. If they decide to keep Iguodala and Williams, both restricted free agents, it looks as though the Sixers will have around $12.4 million in cap space.
The Clippers are the other team that could have space if they do not re-sign unrestricted free agent Corey Maggette. Maggette exercised his early termination option in his contract, leaving the Clippers about $10 million under the cap if they choose not to re-sign him.
A few other teams -- the Wizards, Bobcats, Sonics and Bulls -- could conceivably get some cap room, but for it to happen they'd have to let their major free agents walk.
The Wizards could have roughly $15 million if Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison were to sign somewhere else.
The Bobcats would have roughly $12 million if Emeka Okafor were to leave.
The Sonics will have room if they decide to let Robert Swift walk. If Swift is off the books, they could have around $7.5 million to spend.
But most of the above scenarios seem unlikely.
To make matters worse, with 11 teams in the luxury-tax range -- and potentially more with high draft picks coming -- it appears there will be relatively midlevel slots open as well.
So read this wish list of summer free agents with a heavy heart, fans. You may have your eyes set on a star, but unless your team has a ton of cap room or orchestrates a sign-and-trade, it's going to be a blue summer.
Ranking the best available free agents
By Chad Ford
ESPN.com
Updated: June 29, 2008
With the NBA draft now come and gone, fans who were disappointed by their team's picks (or lack thereof) can now look forward to Tuesday, July 1, for their team to try to add pieces to the puzzle.
Since we wrote our last free-agent update in February, the free-agent market has shifted considerably. A number of NBA veterans who had the option of opting out of their contracts chose not to, leaving a very weak crop of unrestricted free agents. Combine that with only a handful of teams with potential cap room and you have what could be a pretty lackluster summer.
Last summer, a large group of free agents -- restricted and unrestricted -- faced the reality of the NBA's new frugality, which has created practically a hard salary cap. Only a few players came away with big deals, and only a handful found anything near the money that free agents typically get on the open market.
The news doesn't get much better for the free-agent class of 2008. Given our current projections, only three teams -- the Memphis Grizzlies, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Clippers -- will have enough money under the cap to spend on them, assuming a $59 million salary cap this summer.
The Grizzlies got under the cap by trading away Pau Gasol for expiring contracts at the trade deadline. But Memphis GM Chris Wallace has been sending signals that the team might not spend its estimated $15 million in cap room this summer. The Grizzlies are hinting that they will wait until the summer of 2009, when they have more cap room.
The Sixers could potentially have around $20 million in cap space, if they were willing to waive both Andre Iguodala and Louis Williams to reach that figure. If they decide to keep Iguodala and Williams, both restricted free agents, it looks as though the Sixers will have around $12.4 million in cap space.
The Clippers are the other team that could have space if they do not re-sign unrestricted free agent Corey Maggette. Maggette exercised his early termination option in his contract, leaving the Clippers about $10 million under the cap if they choose not to re-sign him.
A few other teams -- the Wizards, Bobcats, Sonics and Bulls -- could conceivably get some cap room, but for it to happen they'd have to let their major free agents walk.
The Wizards could have roughly $15 million if Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison were to sign somewhere else.
The Bobcats would have roughly $12 million if Emeka Okafor were to leave.
The Sonics will have room if they decide to let Robert Swift walk. If Swift is off the books, they could have around $7.5 million to spend.
But most of the above scenarios seem unlikely.
To make matters worse, with 11 teams in the luxury-tax range -- and potentially more with high draft picks coming -- it appears there will be relatively midlevel slots open as well.
So read this wish list of summer free agents with a heavy heart, fans. You may have your eyes set on a star, but unless your team has a ton of cap room or orchestrates a sign-and-trade, it's going to be a blue summer.
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Re: Baron Davis opts out
That's alot of money to walk away from. Interesting.
That's alot of money to walk away from. Interesting.
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Re: Baron Davis opts out
I really want Diddy...I know hes not the best defender in the league but I think he gives us one hell of an option on offense
then we just need a straight defender at the 2 next to him....maybe his warrior teamate Pietrus
B-Diddy = my new pipedream of the week
I really want Diddy...I know hes not the best defender in the league but I think he gives us one hell of an option on offense
then we just need a straight defender at the 2 next to him....maybe his warrior teamate Pietrus
B-Diddy = my new pipedream of the week
Re: Baron Davis opts out
The only thing I can think of as far as Davis is that he's trying to force the Warriors to trade him, but I would think that he probably has a back up plan. It falls through though if the Warriors decide that they just want to let him go instead of working out a sign and trade, getting a young player and or pick plus ending contracts to make the deal match.
Really there's not much of a difference between him picking up the option and them trading him or them signing and trade him as far as the Warriors paying money to players they don't really want. Again the biggest hitch for him is going to be if the Warriors owners take the lower payroll over paying players on ending contracts to pick up talent.
The only thing I can think of as far as Davis is that he's trying to force the Warriors to trade him, but I would think that he probably has a back up plan. It falls through though if the Warriors decide that they just want to let him go instead of working out a sign and trade, getting a young player and or pick plus ending contracts to make the deal match.
Really there's not much of a difference between him picking up the option and them trading him or them signing and trade him as far as the Warriors paying money to players they don't really want. Again the biggest hitch for him is going to be if the Warriors owners take the lower payroll over paying players on ending contracts to pick up talent.
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Re: Baron Davis opts out
What we know....
--Only three teams have the cap space to sign Baron Davis outright for the kind of money he would want. Memphis already has 3 young PGs so they are out. Philadelphia has Andre Miller making big money and they have to resign Iguodala so they are out. LA Clippers are about to break the bank for Brand so they are out.
--Baron Davis is not going to accept a mid-level exception offer.
--By all accounts, Golden State will NOT pay Baron the kind of money he's rumored to be looking for (15+M a year over 4-6 years)
All that said, the most likely situation is going to be a sign and trade. Baron isn't going to get the kind of contract he wants any other way.
The reason why I think the Cavaliers have to be considered a least one of the few possible destinations. If what Wine and Gold is saying is true, the Cavs will have absolutely no reservations about paying Baron Davis the kind of contract he wants and they are willing to probably trade anyone on the roster except LeBron to get him.
What we know....
--Only three teams have the cap space to sign Baron Davis outright for the kind of money he would want. Memphis already has 3 young PGs so they are out. Philadelphia has Andre Miller making big money and they have to resign Iguodala so they are out. LA Clippers are about to break the bank for Brand so they are out.
--Baron Davis is not going to accept a mid-level exception offer.
--By all accounts, Golden State will NOT pay Baron the kind of money he's rumored to be looking for (15+M a year over 4-6 years)
All that said, the most likely situation is going to be a sign and trade. Baron isn't going to get the kind of contract he wants any other way.
The reason why I think the Cavaliers have to be considered a least one of the few possible destinations. If what Wine and Gold is saying is true, the Cavs will have absolutely no reservations about paying Baron Davis the kind of contract he wants and they are willing to probably trade anyone on the roster except LeBron to get him.
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Re: Baron Davis opts out
wait, why wouldn't the Cavs be a primo destination for Bdiddy? For starters, Ferry would be desperate enough to pull the trigger on someone like Baron. 2, we need a pg. Baron Davis is one of the best pg's in the game. He's a scoring pg but he can also dish the pill very well. He would compliment Bron if we transform our offense to suit a somewhat up and down scheme. Three, and most importantly, not many teams can afford (assets, money) Baron Davis. We can. Wally + AV + DJones would do it. You could add in a few combinations and it would work. We need someone else who cans score.
wait, why wouldn't the Cavs be a primo destination for Bdiddy? For starters, Ferry would be desperate enough to pull the trigger on someone like Baron. 2, we need a pg. Baron Davis is one of the best pg's in the game. He's a scoring pg but he can also dish the pill very well. He would compliment Bron if we transform our offense to suit a somewhat up and down scheme. Three, and most importantly, not many teams can afford (assets, money) Baron Davis. We can. Wally + AV + DJones would do it. You could add in a few combinations and it would work. We need someone else who cans score.