Z:
Yeah, but only if we do nothing. If we want to add a max contract, Latke is right. To use our cap space this summer, we’d have to renounce our free agents. Wilson Chandler has a $6.5 million cap hold, so to free up that money to sign a high priced free agent, we’d have to give up Chandler.If we bring in a max player via trade, though, before the deadline, then cap holds are moot, and we can go as far over the cap as we want in order to sign our own players.So there is a tactical advantage to getting it done before the deadline (something only Latke seems to acknowledge around here). That said, though, the new CBA, of course, makes any sort of planning moot. A hard cap changes everything.  

Yay! someone understands me! I’m not crazy!

Re: the hard cap — I really really doubt that would happen. The major engine that has brought the NBA to its level of popularity has been dynasties. It’s very difficult to have a dynasty with a hard cap. For example, the Lakers would not have been able to re-sign kobe. I think the “hard cap” threat is just something the owners are throwing out there to try to intimidate the players. I think behind the scenes the only thing the owners want to change is the percentages and the ways revenue is shared between players and between small and large markets.

rama:
latke – unless I’m really mistaken, you’re really mistaken.You don’t have to be over the cap to resign your own players.We don’t have to do anything to retain all of Fields, Gallo, Chandler, and Felton: we just resign them.The cap doesn’t apply to players you already control when their contracts expire.if we do nothing, we still can resign every single player we have, no matter how far that would put us over the cap.  

You are partly correct. You can go over the cap to sign your own players, but you cannot simultaneously sign free agents from other teams (otherwise we could have signed stoudemire then resigned David Lee). So, (and I know I’m oversimplifying this here), but what you’re saying when you say “save cap space” is that you are ready to give up on Fields/Felton/Gallo/Chandler. You would prefer to go out and sign other FAs, even though the net result is having fewer overall dollars to spend on players.

On the Wilson Chandler front, he’s hardly comparable to Anthony in my mind, but still someone I’d prefer to keep around. In addition to the maturation of his game I’ve been struck by the fact that he doesn’t seem to care. I don’t mean that in the negative way, but in the way that when he hits the big shot, throws down the vicious dunk, makes the defensive stop and his teammates get hyped, he’s just sorta “yeah, whatever, it’s what I do,” while Ronny Turiaf has a fit in the background celebrating.

rama:
unless I’m really mistaken, you’re really mistaken.You don’t have to be over the cap to resign your own players.We don’t have to do anything to retain all of Fields, Gallo, Chandler, and Felton: we just resign them.The cap doesn’t apply to players you already control when their contracts expire.if we do nothing, we still can resign every single player we have, no matter how far that would put us over the cap.  

Yeah, but only if we do nothing. If we want to add a max contract, Latke is right. To use our cap space this summer, we’d have to renounce our free agents. Wilson Chandler has a $6.5 million cap hold, so to free up that money to sign a high priced free agent, we’d have to give up Chandler.

If we bring in a max player via trade, though, before the deadline, then cap holds are moot, and we can go as far over the cap as we want in order to sign our own players.

So there is a tactical advantage to getting it done before the deadline (something only Latke seems to acknowledge around here). That said, though, the new CBA, of course, makes any sort of planning moot. A hard cap changes everything.

latke: please refer to my post. THis is an absolute false dichotomy. If you have any hopes of keeping more than one of Fields, Gallinari, Chandler and Felton, then you want to get over the cap ASAP. To oversimplify things, a trade for carmelo (or any other longer contracts that put us over the cap this summer) is really more like we are trading whomever we send out for Carmelo, Felton, Gallinari and Chandler. Would you trade, say, chandler and randolph for those four?  (Quote)

latke – unless I’m really mistaken, you’re really mistaken. You don’t have to be over the cap to resign your own players. We don’t have to do anything to retain all of Fields, Gallo, Chandler, and Felton: we just resign them. The cap doesn’t apply to players you already control when their contracts expire. if we do nothing, we still can resign every single player we have, no matter how far that would put us over the cap.

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It seems the denver fan base is not high on fields…..they say he won’t play behind affalo, jr smith, etc. i don’t think they know he can play the 3.

greatscott: This is why Lee is struggling. He has a huge gash in his arm and he has no strength in it and can’t mix it up inside at all.

And still his #’s aren’t THAT bad. The last few box scores I looked at Lee got a double double and 4-5 assist in each 1.

Nick C.:
all this David Lee blood talk has made me realize that since the WC-Lee incident Lee has been less of himself whereas Chandler has been exceptionally efficient.Is it possible that there has been some strange transfusion where WC has developed some of the powers of David Lee while transferring some of his “powers” to Lee?  

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Nice!!! Like a zombie ala “Dawn of the Dave”?

hoolahoop: Since this is the Wilson Chandler thread, has anyone noticed that he now wears a mouth guard since his teeth got knocked out by D. Lee’s elbow?  (Quote)

all this David Lee blood talk has made me realize that since the WC-Lee incident Lee has been less of himself whereas Chandler has been exceptionally efficient. Is it possible that there has been some strange transfusion where WC has developed some of the powers of David Lee while transferring some of his “powers” to Lee?