Darkwing Duck
Well-Known Member
The Jazz are still in the luxury tax this year, but as far as being viable for future years, the Jazz have helped their cause.
https://www.shamsports.com/content/pages/data/salaries/jazz.jsp
Basically, the Jazz are now committed to $53.3 million for 7 players this upcoming year. To give an idea where this stands, the salary cap for the 2010-11 season is a shade over $58 million. In comparison, before the trade, the Jazz had $55.9 million committed to 6 players next year. These numbers do NOT include the team option for $3.7 million the Jazz have on C.J. Miles. These number DO include the salary hit Paul Millsap's contract has on the cap, not the actual dollars paid to him that year.
I believe the Jazz have, to put it in baseball terms, ownership of Jeremy Evans' contract and has the final decision on where he plays next year.
The Jazz are guaranteed one first round draft pick next year, so that's another player going to be under contract.
In essence, the Jazz control 10 players next year.
The big deal is the new CBA. The current one expires at the end of the year, and it's already known that the owners are going to gain leverage, given the talk that has been put in public so far. How much, and in what ways the owners gain affects the Jazz significantly. The high profile switching of teams of smaller market all stars to top ten media markets has the smaller market owners crying out for balance to keep their stars at home.
What this means is unknown. We could have the same type of soft cap with just rolled back salaries. The Jazz would be fine with this as Okur's contract is the only one that can be considered "bad," and it's expiring next year. There's been talk of being able to "franchise" a player. There are plenty of candidates for that, Favors being the best, at the moment.
I guess in the end, the Jazz cut salary for next year and added an extra player. It will make the Jazz a bit more flexible, regardless of the new CBA.
https://www.shamsports.com/content/pages/data/salaries/jazz.jsp
Basically, the Jazz are now committed to $53.3 million for 7 players this upcoming year. To give an idea where this stands, the salary cap for the 2010-11 season is a shade over $58 million. In comparison, before the trade, the Jazz had $55.9 million committed to 6 players next year. These numbers do NOT include the team option for $3.7 million the Jazz have on C.J. Miles. These number DO include the salary hit Paul Millsap's contract has on the cap, not the actual dollars paid to him that year.
I believe the Jazz have, to put it in baseball terms, ownership of Jeremy Evans' contract and has the final decision on where he plays next year.
The Jazz are guaranteed one first round draft pick next year, so that's another player going to be under contract.
In essence, the Jazz control 10 players next year.
The big deal is the new CBA. The current one expires at the end of the year, and it's already known that the owners are going to gain leverage, given the talk that has been put in public so far. How much, and in what ways the owners gain affects the Jazz significantly. The high profile switching of teams of smaller market all stars to top ten media markets has the smaller market owners crying out for balance to keep their stars at home.
What this means is unknown. We could have the same type of soft cap with just rolled back salaries. The Jazz would be fine with this as Okur's contract is the only one that can be considered "bad," and it's expiring next year. There's been talk of being able to "franchise" a player. There are plenty of candidates for that, Favors being the best, at the moment.
I guess in the end, the Jazz cut salary for next year and added an extra player. It will make the Jazz a bit more flexible, regardless of the new CBA.
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