Our salary cap hell wrote down on paper. Some ideas on how we can fix it???
| Player | 2011/2012 | 2012/2013 | 2013/2014 | 2014/2015 | |||
| Gilbert Arenas | $19,269,307 | $20,807,921 | $22,346,535 | N/A | |||
| Dwight Howard | $18,091,770 | $19,536,360 | N/A | N/A | |||
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| Hidayet Turkoglu | $11,015,850 | $11,815,850 | $12,000,000 | N/A | |||
| Jameer Nelson | $7,800,000 | $7,800,000 | N/A | N/A | |||
| J.J. Redick | $6,750,000 | $6,190,000 | N/A | N/A | |||
| Brandon Bass | $4,000,000 | $4,000,000 | N/A | N/A | |||
| Chris Duhon | $3,500,000 | $3,500,000 | $3,750,000 | N/A | |||
| Quentin Richardson | $2,446,200 | $2,627,400 | $2,808,600 | N/A | |||
| Earl Clark | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Ryan Anderson | $2,244,601 | $3,234,470 | N/A | N/A | |||
| Daniel Orton | $1,105,560 | $1,182,600 | $2,134,593 | $3,201,890 | |||
| Jason Williams * | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Malik Allen | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Total salaries: | $76,223,288 | $77,460,131 | $43,039,728 | $0 |
Courtesy of ShamSports salary page: http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages/data/salaries/magic.jsp
I'm looking at this roster and salary cap situation and trying to figure out how in the hell we can fix the mess that Otis Smith put us in.
I don't want to lose Dwight as he is one of my favorite players in the league and one of the few "good guys" left but I look at this roster and can't figure out a way to make things right.
I figure the only way it works out is the following things occur:
1. The 2011-2012 NBA season is cancelled due to the lockout.
This will automatically shave off a year off of those poison pill contracts of Gilbert Arenas and Hedo Turkoglu. This way we play Arenas in 2012 - 2013 season and he becomes an expiring contract that summer. Hedo also gets the same treatment and is only guaranteed $6 million in the final year of his expiring contract.
It also makes it easier to re-sign Dwight since 2 - 3 years of hell playing with Arenas and Turk and getting bounced out of the first round doesn't sound very appealing while a quick 1 year of hell and trading Areans/Turk might not sound as bad.
| Player | 2011/2012 | 2012/2013 | 2013/2014 | 2014/2015 | |||
| Gilbert Arenas | $20,807,921 | $22,346,535 | N/A | ||||
| Dwight Howard | $19,536,360 | N/A | N/A | ||||
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||
| Hidayet Turkoglu | $11,815,850 | $12,000,000 | N/A | ||||
| Jameer Nelson | $7,800,000 | N/A | N/A | ||||
| J.J. Redick | $6,190,000 | N/A | N/A | ||||
| Brandon Bass | $4,000,000 | N/A | N/A | ||||
| Chris Duhon | $3,500,000 | $3,750,000 | N/A | ||||
| Quentin Richardson | $2,627,400 | $2,808,600 | N/A | ||||
| Earl Clark | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| Ryan Anderson | $3,234,470 | N/A | N/A | ||||
| Daniel Orton | $1,182,600 | $2,134,593 | $3,201,890 | ||||
| Jason Williams * | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| Malik Allen | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| Total salaries: | $77,460,131 | $43,039,728 | $0 |
Looks much more manageable now doesnt it? A cancelled 2011 - 2012 might end up being a blessing in disguise.
2. The new CBA makes it much less desirable for Dwight Howard to opt out of the final year of his contract.
Who knows the new CBA might lower the max salary down to $12 million? Maybe Dwight looks at the new amount he would be paid with the new CBA and figures to play out the last year of his contract ala Carlos Boozer with the Jazz. This would give us ample opportunity to say "hey look Dwight, we have TONS of expiring contracts to trade for a superstar next to you. Please sign an extension." At least this would give us time.
3. The new CBA has an amnesty clause that allows you to cut a players contract and not have it count against your salary cap whatsoever.
Bye Bye Arenas. It's been real.
4. Gilbert Arenas has a rebirth (25 ppg) and has the best season of his career next to Dwight.
I don't count on this happening whatsoever since I don't trust Arenas knees anymore but theres always hope that he could pull a Sam Cassell (w/ the T-wolves) and revitalize his career since he did average 29 ppg in a season. Seems like forever ago.
5. Dwight Howard opts out of the final year of his contract after a cancelled 2011 - 2012 season and signs a new max contract with the Magic.
Say the whole 11/12 season is cancelled. Who would Dwight sign with when the Magic are so close to rebuilding and have $40+ million in expiring contracts to trade for a superstar on a non-playoff team looking to save money and rebuild? He has always said he wants to stay in Orlando and win a championship instead of pulling a LeBron type fiasco and leaving to someone elses team to win a ring. The Magic front office could easily put together a quick rebuilding plan in order to convince Dwight to sign the contract extension.
Just some ideas so far. Is there any that you could add to the mix???
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You make [at least] one very good point.
Previously, I’ve thought that losing the entire 2011-12 season would be bad, because we probably would’ve already watched his last game in a Magic uniform. But the Magic are almost certainly not going to win the title this coming season, and it’d probably be unbelievably frustrating for Dwight to have to deal with the Arenas/Turk $#!&show for an entire non-title year, probably hastening his escape from town. So if the season is wiped out completely, then you’re right: that’s an entire year less of that mess and an entire year closer to those contracts expiring. That can only work in our favor. It wouldn’t be quite as quick as you make it seem, since at least one of Arenas/Turk is going to be on this team through 2013-14, but it’d take less of a mental toll on Dwight, at least.
Otis Smith, what you've just done is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard of. At no point in your rambling, incoherent trades were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this blog is now dumber for having witnessed it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
or next year could be a cancelled year and Dwight still voids final year meaning he has already played his final year as a Magic.
If you don't have anything good to say about the Cards this season, you'd be correct.
by hevchv on Aug 15, 2011 12:39 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Okay,I'm giving it a shot
I’ve been kicking this around ever since I saw your post and finally decided to throw out a few ideas.
For the purposes of this reply I’m assuming the Season starts sometime in Nov and there is a trading period and the 125% salary provision stays. Second,whether the new CBA has a Cap-Free buy-out provision or not and whatever % player salaries gets rolled back is irrelevant except for Gilbert.
Third,there are no sacred cows except Dwight.
Scenario 1.(The Magic Bullet.)
CBA has buy-out and salary rollback and Ownership is willing to spend the dollars paying Arenas not to play for Magic.(Or how some bogus math makes it cheaper to buy him out:) .)
Assuming a 10% salary rollback the Magic’ team salary this season of about $80mil(assuming some 4 rookie,vet mins to fill out roster)becomes $72mil. Further assuming a Hard Cap of about $60mil and a transitional Lux Tax starting at Cap,would see the Magic paying some $12mil in Lux Tax. Ownership effectively pays some $84mil in salaries.
BUUUUT,if Arenas is bought out(at 90% of his salary because of rollbacks),Magic committed salaries drop to some $52mil,leaving room for not just 4 min players,but a MLE type and 3 rookie/mins. Meanwhile even if salaries are at the $60mil Cap,there’s no Lux Tax,making effective salaries $60mil. That’s a $24mil difference,more than enough to cover the amount to be paid to Gilbert.(With Gilbert due some $17mil+ under a 10% rollback,even if the Lux Tax didn’t kick in til $66mil in Salaries,the Magic would still come out ahead.)
So if there is a Cap-free buy-out and the Magic actually use it on Arenas,the Magic are in good shape.
But here are some other suggestions:
1)Turk,the 2012 First(protected,20,15,10,10) to Cavs for Baron Davis. A motivated Davis(rather unlikely I know)is still a pretty good PG. Go back and see how many of those Blake dunks came off of Davis passes. Magic get rid of that third yr.
2)Nelson,Bass,Orton to Atl for Hinrich,Pachulia,Atl 2013 Lottery protected First. Yeah,it bites,esp when Jameer plays the Magic,but the team needs a back-up C and Hinrich can play two spots and his contract expires at end of season.(Pachulia and his coach really don’t like each other,and the Atl coach doesn’t trust his young PG.)
3)Reddick to Minn for Randolph and Webster. Randolph can play either big,is athletic-but not particularly fundamentally sound,could really use some solid coaching-blocks shots,rebounds,runs court,plays D,has nice 15-20’ jumper and thinks he has much better handles than he does. Webster can shoot the 3 and tries on D.
4)Try and send cash,a 2013 First and TPE to Memphis for Mayo.
This would end up being
Davis,Hinrich,Duhon
FA/Hinrich,Hinrich/FA,Q.Rich,Liggins
Webster,FA,Q.Rich
Randolph,Anderson,Harper
Dwight,Pachulia.
Cheap FA possibilities,Jermaine Taylor at SG,Rodney Carney,Quinton Ross at SF,perhaps Clark re-signing. There will be several cheap options this yr,not great talent but roster fill who might contribute.(And of course He who shall not be named,as heads would explod all over Orlando if it happened :),starting w/SVG’s.)
Arenas bought-out,these salaries come to @ $63mil this season and $54mil next,before FAs and w/out any salary rollbacks.
Randolph,
BTW
Sorry,I started this one way,changed it and had some editing errors. Originally there were multiple scenarios(hence Scenario 1) and forgot to clean up that last Randolph, bit.
Sorry.
And if the team wanted to clear room for next yr and NY wants to win now,thinking new CBA won’t allow them to add that third Star PG w/out trading assets for him:
Nelson,Reddick for Billups,Walker.
If there’s a Arenas buy-out then the Magic are down to some $42mil in salaries,w/out any rollbacks.

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