Looks like Jazz only have 8 players currently under contract?
DWill-$14,940,153
Jefferson-$13,000,000
AK-$17,823,000
Millsap-$7,600,000
Okur-$9,945,000
Miles-$3,700,000
Price-$1,381,250
Hayward (guaranteed contract)-$2,356,320
Jazz need to add 5 players to get to 13
Jazz still have some work to do.
So Jazz are right at LT with 5 more players to sign?
Even if Jazz sign minimum type contracts for 5 more players they go 5-8 mil over?
They then have to pay additional 5-8?
That's more than last year when they dumped some salaries?
If they want Matthews for instance that puts them way over for just one player with 4 more to sign.
Just for a point of reference, our nemesis (L.A.) went about $22,000,000 over the threshhold (around $91,000,000 payroll)
Heh, well, Nutt, I wouldn't really call the highest payroll in the league in one of the (if not the) biggest markets in the NBA a "reference point" for Utah, my own damn self, but....
And the owners are crying poverty. With apologies to cj, the game doesn't appear to be in trouble. If I were Derek Fisher, as president of the player's association, I would use this summer's spending spree - specifically the outrageous contracts given to lesser players - as Exhibit A for not budging one iota from the terms of the current CBA.Something else to add to further show how we compared last yr to other teams namely the ones who spent more than us...11 teams went further into LT then us, many of which went far more than the $2mil+ we went over.
https://www.shamsports.com/content/pages/data/salaries/index.jsp
Look at Denver and PHX, both went a little more than $6mil over...would it be asking too much for the Millers and KOC to do the same?