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Originally Posted by dirno2000
I'm anxious to see how teams utilize this. Doesn't see like a great deal to me. Yes you more than cut the cap hit in half but you also stretch it out so that you've got, to use an NFL term, dead money long after the player is gone.
In Haywoods case if you wanted to get out of the last two guaranteed years of his deal you could take the cap hit down to less than $4M a year but you'd be stuck with that until 2018. I'm not sure that's good cap management. We'll see how it plays out in practice.
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Well in the Mavs case I assume they'd still have their amnesty provision to use on him at that time. I can't see them using it on anyone else unless you can use it on someone you trade for.
I think the stretch provision is something you can always have in your back pocket and makes it far more likely that someone like Haywood can be dealt. He's the type of player than can be a lot more valuable for another team, and that team still has some recourse to make his final couple of seasons more palatable if he doesn't pan out.