Miggs
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I'm always confused on how these things work, but I think the Jazz can extend him using their cap-space in 2018 (if they have any). So they pay him more money in 2018-2019 as a way to make his future contract not as expensive.
Like if they wanted to sign him to a 4 year, 80 million dollar deal, they could pay him a certain portion of that in the last year of his current deal.
Like the Sixers did with Covington: https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2017/11/15/16658798/robert-covington-extension-sixers-contract
I'm not sure how that works exactly tho. Can the Jazz go past the cap to do that as long as they dont go past the LT? Or can they only do that if they have cap-space?
If I'm understanding your question correctly, then no, we can not go past the cap to do that. At least I don't think we can. We attempted to do such with Hill last season. We essentially offered him 88.3M for three years, with the three year extension being for 74.7M and the remaining value of the offer being the 13.6M we had in cap space last season. He turned the offer down and ironically enough, we used that cap space to acquire Rubio in our trade with the Wolves just before July 1st as Rubio made 13.4M last season, just under that remaining 13.6M in space we had.
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