Will Corey Maggette Be A Hindrance?

We should amnesty Maggette because who cares if we lose by 2 or 50? If I’m paying good hard earned money for a ticket, who cares if we lose by 2 or 50?

Kemba, DJ, Hendo, Tyrus, Matt Carroll

but still enough talent to the point we won’t be the worst team in history. We probably won’t even be the worse team in the league.

If we don’t sign Brown…Diop is the only C on the team unless you’re suggesting we just play small ball all year…

Who is to say we don’t just hold that amnesty and see what happens as the season starts rolling?

No one can say for certain what is going to happen until after tomorrow.

…who will sign him?
We’ll be more likely paying him close to what he’s making right now to not play.
If we amnesty someone who has a chance of signing somewhere else…we aren’t paying out as much cash.

Does it not make more sense for us to amnesty someone who will get picked up so we are free on cap space AND we are not paying but a fraction of what we owe them?

Unless we’re going on a signing spree (not likely), it’s pointelss for this season. If we don’t need the cap room, and we have to pay Diop/Maggette either way, they might as well play. Both can contribute.

No one signs amnestied player = we pay his salary to him and it doesn’t count towards cap
Someone signs amnesited player for a portion of his total previous salary = we pay the balance of their previous contract and it doesn’t count towards the cap.

Option B is better than A. That’s why I say if we amnesty someone, it should be someone that another team would want to pick up…but they are just being overpaid on their current team.

If you’re wanting to free up space…even if the contract is expiring, if you’re looking to clear space to sign a free agent, THEN using the amnesty makes sense.
Let’s say for the sake of argument, that Gerald Wallace is a free agent right now. We traded and got Maggette right now. If we could sign Wallace for $6mil, and he wanted to sign here, we could amnesty Maggette and pick up Wallace. $6 mil counts towards cap…Maggette’s balance does not. Say the Blazers decide to pick up Maggette for $10mil…we owe Maggette the balance…so we are paying $6 to Wallace and $4 to Maggette that isn’t counting towards cap. We still have a cash outflow of $10, but only $6 counts towards cap, so we technically cleared $9mil off of our cap.

I think I’m explaining it right.

If a player is amnestied, all teams under the cap get to bid on how much of his contract they’d like to take on (for the full length of the contract). Highest bid wins, and the cutting team is on the hook for the remainder of the salary. If no one bids, the cutting team is on the hook for the whole salary, and the player becomes a free agent.

So, for example, if we cut Diop ($7 million a year for two years), and a team bids $2 million, then they get Diop for 2 years and $4 million total. We’re on the hook for the remaining $10 million. If no one bids, we pay the full $14.

I think its much much clearer now. now that I get it, I would say I am in the cut magette camp. some team might sign him for a few mill per year. we are on the hook for the rest, but you have playesr here who can take on the scoring load (cunningham, t thomas, henderson, and walker) and are younger and need the playing time.

I also am wondering what the rest of the guys are doing…
Where is Najera? Diaw? Cunningham?

I’m just speculating on “what-if’s”.

they probably can’t negotiate it that way

They can probably only make what their contract was for until the years expire.

Because the amnesty waiver process is a “secondary” waiver process, meaning they do have to clear the normal waiver process first.

So when a player is amnestied (waived), all teams have a right to pick up that player’s full remaining contract, assuming they have cap room or an exception to do so. If there is more than one claim, I think the team with the worst record last year wins.

If no one claims the player via the normal waiver process (which is almost certain to happen since you’re only going to amnesty grossly overpaid players), then the secondary bidding waiver process starts.

So in short, they can’t wind up getting paid more.

Billups was threatening to retire if a team picked him off the amnesty wire. That greatly lowered his value. I’m not saying Maggette will get a lot more, but he at least doesn’t have the “I’ll retire if you pick me” thing going on.