Chris Johnson and Jeff Withey are only fully guaranteed if they are under contract on 1/10/17 (at least according to Basketball Insiders) Both could be cut for a roster spot.
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Chris Johnson and Jeff Withey are only fully guaranteed if they are under contract on 1/10/17 (at least according to Basketball Insiders) Both could be cut for a roster spot.
That game could get ugly without Lyles.
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Agreed.
I was down with the jazz taking him at #12.
And I agree with cy when he said murray kind of looks like/plays like burks.
GVC
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What was his reasoning?
GVC
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That's not true though. He can get two (or three) additional years by waiting, but the Jazz could renegotiate his contract to make it worth more over the next four seasons than his current contract plus the first two years of a max contract signed in 2018.
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The renegotiation isn't affected by the 2017/18 cap projection.
I'm paraphrasing, and he was speaking about the issue indirectly, but a difference in perceived market value was implied. On his podcast a few weeks ago.
My speculation is that DFav is feeling bad with all the inferior bigs making more. So he would like to sign an extension similar to Harden's. While the Jazz would like to take him to max next 2 years then drop by about 40%
I don't recall Locke saying this. Locke has said that DFav can be made whole with more now and less later.
Stifle Tower
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Really doesn't matter. Once he traded the pick, DL just gave up on a draft he viewed as weak. Lindsey isn't good at finding talent in the 2nd round. Neto, a 3rd-string PG, has been his "find" in the 2nd. It's just as easy to let players get signed to the DLeague and poach the best available, unowned owns (like Cotton, Millsap and Johnson).
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Favors' current contract pays him $23.05MM over the next two seasons. He can be renegotiated up to his max amount for this season, $22,116,750 (LINK), and get 7.5% more than that next season, $23,775,506.25, for a total of $45,892,256.25 -- nearly $23MM more than he's set to earn.
The most recent cap projection for the 2018/19 season is $108MM. Favs' can make a bit less than 30% of that number in 2018/19 -- in the neighborhood of $30.5MM. A 7.5% raise would make his max 2019/20 salary about $32.8MM, and bring his total 2018/19-2019/20 compensation to $63.3MM.
Without a renegotiation, under the assumption that Favors gets the max from the Jazz in 2018 (unlikely?), Favors four-year total salary would be about $86.3MM. Ignoring inflation/the time value of money and contract length -- both of which are important considerations -- the two year extension after the renegotiation would only have to total $40.4MM for Favors to break even.
You'd think the Jazz could, at the very worst, negotiate a 4-year ~$80MM renegotiation and extension, which would include the max this season, a 7.5% raise next season, and then $34MM split between the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons.
I'd be surprised if Johnson is gone any significant time before his guarantee date, which is in January I believe. He will certainly be cut then, but he is on until then guarantee it.
Stifle Tower
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Certainly through training camp. But in getting down to 15, perhaps he's the odd man out.
Hill, Exum, Mack, Neto (4)
Hayward, Hood, JJ, Burks, Ingles (5)
Gobert, Favors, Lyles, Diaw, Withey, Pleiss (6)
Not sure who CJ beats out to make the Day 1 roster. Do they cut a PG or Pleiss or Withey?
GVC
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Don't the Jazz have to get roster size down to 15 before then?