Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
In light of one or both of these two being about to be traded, there exists a new realm of questions about this two unusual, nearly-novel deals. The questions surround what they're being paid, and what they're being charged to the salary cap. People don't know which set…
Several years ago, I wrote a piece called Creative Financing in the NBA , that sought to address and highlight a few quirky salaries and salaries mechanisms handed about that season. In that piece, I also spent a long time addressing the difference between team options and unguaranteed…
July 1st is (the date on which one season ends and the next one begins, and thus June 30th (and the week preceding it) is an important cut-off date for certain transactions. Players with player or early termination options had to decide if they were coming back; the…
K.C. Johnson reports that the Bulls, despite being a number four seed without having their MVP on the court, are sorely tempted to waive Nate Robinson . In one of the most unheralded high quality moves of the summer - unheralded because the dominant Bullsean narrative of the…
Even though he signed a one year minimum salary contract using the Minimum Salary Exception, Nazr Mohammed has a 15% trade kicker in his current contract. Trade kickers in contracts are somewhat rare. They are particularly rare in small contracts, as becomes obvious upon a study of the…
In April 2011, Zach Randolph received a four year, $66 million extension that will pay him through the 2015 season. Notwithstanding the very valid arguments that a man who doesn't have any athleticism in the first place is going to decline slower than most, and that Memphis have…
The only beardless picture of Rashard Lewis I could find. It's a part of him now. "Creative financing." A fun term, one that's actually employed by financiers and accountants, yet one brought into the world of the NBA when it was used, once , in a pre-emptive justification…
Even though a lockout is upon us, one which might last us through until the very end of existence in late 2012, there's still some bookkeeping to be done. July 1st is (or should be) the date on which one season ends and the next one begins, and…
He looks happy. And why shouldn't he. That was one of the most interesting trade deadline weeks you'll ever see. Fourteen trades, one kind of funny near trade , 50 players traded, 3 players signed, 4 players waived, 16 draft picks traded, 1 rights to swap traded, and…
The only picture of Joe Smith ever taken in which he is not smiling broadly. Yesterday, a three way trade went down between the L.A. Lakers , Houston Rockets and New Jersey Nets that saw four picks, three players and one set of redundant draft rights get rehomed…
Apropos of nothing, here are the total contract values of all centres in the NBA, not including those on minimum salaries (or with really close to minimum salaries, such as Samardo Samuels). In cases where a player's position is debatable or flexible, discretion is used, and the player's…
In the recent Creative Financing In The NBA post, I wrote at great length about the Xavier Henry situation. In the span of about 27,000 words, I tried to explain all the nuances of this largely unprecedented and highly unattractive situation, using as many real-life examples and corollaries…
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Last year, I wrote a couple of posts under the heading of "Creative Financing in the NBA." Inspired by seeing a series of quirky salary techniques that I had not previously seen in my three long and sexless years of compiling NBA salary information, I was inspired to…
The worst part about maintaining the internet's premier NBA salary information resource is that the information is never static. It is ever-changing. Due to things such as conditional guarantees, trade kickers and the like, rarely do contracts ever stay the same. This is particularly true because of the…
This is an update of the update of the earlier post that detailed the amount of cap room teams will have . It is updated to reflect everything that happened at the draft, including, in the case of the Kirk Hinrich trade, things that haven't happened that soon…
Thank you for your patience as we resolve the issues that have plagued this website in recent days. We're on top of it now. Sort of. The free agency season is upon us, and a lot of housekeeping had to be done before we could get going. Players…
This is an update of the earlier post that detailed the amount of cap room teams will have . It is updated to reflect the Kings/Sixers trade that was just completed ( Andres Nocioni and Spencer Hawes for Sam Dalembert ), to reflect some exercised options, and to…
Lots of people and lots of places are claiming knowledge of the cap space of various NBA team in anticipation of this summer's free agency bonanza. Most, if not all, have done so misleadingly inaccurately. Without wanting to sound too douchebaggy (sorry), let's try to get this right.…
Trade kickers are a salary mechanism that increase a player's salary when they are traded. They are both important and difficult to accommodate when formulating trade scenarios, and thus it's useful for them to be known. Kickers - technically known as trade bonuses, but colloquially as kickers, which…
A while ago, I wrote about Anthony Morrow's impending free agency , breaking down how much he could sign for and why. If you have not read it, please do so, and I won't stab this puppy. Morrow's situation is not unique, for his is a situation that…
Of all the possible free agents this upcoming offseason, Golden State's Anthony Morrow is one of the restricted free agents that is garnering the most attention amongst fans. Well, amongst Bulls fans he is, at least. 1 Morrow only really does one thing; he shoots jump shots. He…
In the last week, more than 10% of the NBA was rehomed. 17 teams conspired to make 13 trades, and 43 players in the league were traded (along with one that isn't in it ). A possible 14 draft picks changed hands, too, along with enough cash to…
I have only 48 things to say about this deal. 1) As his profile suggests , I have long regarded Peter Fehse as a yardstick for a person's NBA knowledge. If a fan knows who Peter Fehse is, they are hardcore and deserve your respect. Short story short,…
The NBA's luxury tax first came into existence in 2001, the year in which the league's new escrow system debuted. The escrow system, in layman's terms, is a system that withholds a certain amount of player's salaries and puts it into a separate account until the end of…
Yesterday, the Detroit Pistons waived 2008 second-round draft pick and flopper extraordinaire, Deron Washington . They had initially signed him back in August to be their 14th and last man, giving him a two-year minimum salary deal with $250,000 guaranteed in the first season. Yet after bringing in…