Jack Strop
Well-Known Member
Frontloading makes sense. Without what's his name, Jazz are well under the tax this season, but need all the room they can manage in future years.
What are the rules for front-loading?
Is 111 over the luxury tax?Bobby Marks: The Joe Ingles contract in Utah starts at $14.1M in year 1 and descends each year with a $10.8M cap hit in 20-21. Utah with $111M in salary. (twitter)
Is 111 over the luxury tax?
Jazz do incentives in every contract.[TWEET]890201648097832960[/TWEET]
Here's official-ish:
https://twitter.com/BobbyMarks42/status/890201648097832960
I don't know how it goes to 10.8M in the last year, because for it to get there the contract goes under 50M. It's possible they have some incentives in the contract.
Do incentives count against the cap?
Do incentives count against the cap?
Depends on whether the incentives the are deemed likely or unlikely. For example, before Gobert made all-nba and all-defense team his cap/salary was 21.3M, once he made those teams his cap number jumped to 21.9M.
I think the league determines those based on performance from previous season. For example if in the contract it says the player gets extra 0.5M if he plays 70 games, if he has played 69 the previous season this one is deemed unlikely and doesn't count towards the cap, if he has played 71 games it's deemed likely and it counts towards the cap.
link?
Nate Duncan and Danny Leroux were discussing it in one of their podcasts but I don't know which one exactly(so I don't have a link, I'm sorry). One of the main points they made is that this might be a way for some teams to cheat the system a bit in FA and set up contracts that even though deemed unlikely are actually likely. For example giving a player that was injured for most of the year a bonus if he plays more than 25 games(which he didn't play the previous season). This way they can sign the player to a lower number on the cap at the time than he's actually going to end up getting.
I know the Jazz do a lot of incentives based on going to P3 and working out in Utah for a certain amount of time during the off-season.
Do incentives count against the cap?
If they are met.
Depends on whether the incentives the are deemed likely or unlikely. For example, before Gobert made all-nba and all-defense team his cap/salary was 21.3M, once he made those teams his cap number jumped to 21.9M.
I think the league determines those based on performance from previous season. For example if in the contract it says the player gets extra 0.5M if he plays 70 games, if he has played 69 the previous season this one is deemed unlikely and doesn't count towards the cap, if he has played 71 games it's deemed likely and it counts towards the cap.
Yeah, what he said!
So Gobert's All-Defensive team and All-NBA team (both first) were deemed likely? Seems unlikely.