Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
(click here for the Instant Gratification Version ) Determining a team's luxury tax number is not quite as simple as looking at their payroll and comparing it to the luxury tax threshold. This is about 98% of the job, of course, but there are a couple of other…
All salary information is taken from this website's own salary pages . All figures taken from the day of publication - if subsequent trades/signings are made, then adjust accordingly. NOTE: All cap space amounts are calculated to an estimated salary cap of $58.5 million. This inexact figure is…
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…
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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…
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.…
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…
Simple question: Did the tough economic climate affect NBA team's spending plans as much as MSM scaremongers would have you believe? Not-so-simple answer: Kind of. This summer saw a team that could have had nearly eight figures of cap room opt not to use any of it. The…
Here's a longer list of things that were not included in the original Creative Financing post, either because I forgot to include them, or (in one instance) because the sweet prince who called our hotline with the information had not yet come forward. Remember; all calls are anonymous…
If you Google the term "creative financing otis smith" , you'll find quite a few hits. It's long been a favoured phrase for Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith, and his most famous usage of the phrase came in the run-up to the 2007 offseason . Smith used…
If your team didn't agree to an extension with its starlet young player this past offseason - such as is the case with the Atlanta duo of Josh Childress and Josh Smith , the Chicago duo of Luol Deng and Ben Gordon , amongst others - then you've…
On Saturday afternoon, I went to a non-league football match. Football is a sport that we have in this country, which involves people kicking a ball with their foot (hence the name). It's a tremendous sport of flair, innovation and foul language, which unites the whole entire world…
Why aren't NBA players loyal to their teams, such as how the fans are, and such as how the fans think that they should be? Ask Fred Jones . Jonesy signed with Toronto for three years and $9.9 million in July 2006, as a part of the Raptors'…
For those amongst you who, like me, have a strange fascination with transactions, both those finalized and those possible, this is a bad time of year for you. This is late August, the draft is long since gone, and most of the juicy bits of free agency have…
Consider what recent fortunes have been like for the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks . Last year, both of these teams pulled the incredibly-unsubtle-tank-job routine, rivalled only in blatantness by that of the Minnesota Timberwolves . So obvious was it that then-Celtic Ryan Gomes essentially admitted to the…