Gay - Trade??

[EricaLubarsky]

Originally Posted by nodir41

we will not get a franchise player in offseason!! When will you get that???
Why should we NOT get a 3rd star player? look at Brooklyn, LA, Miami....they did it...

I'm not sure you understand how the CBA works. When Dirk earns 20mill and Gay earning 18mill, we simply can't afford to have three stars. Gay would be our second and we'd be filling in the rest of the roster with cheap players.

Depending on who we traded, we'd have between 3 and 12 million for 5-7 more players.

And I assume we'd also have to trade a couple of first rounders, so we couldn't even fill our roster with draft picks, either.

Dirk and Gay is an improvement, but Dirk/Gay going forward for the next few years also isn't a championship team and that is what we'd be stuck with-- Dirk, Gay and some younger players.

[nodir41]

Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky

I'm not sure you understand how the CBA works. When Dirk earns 20mill and Gay earning 18mill, we simply can't afford to have three stars. Gay would be our second and we'd be filling in the rest of the roster with cheap players.

Depending on who we traded, we'd have between 3 and 12 million for 5-7 more players.

And I assume we'd also have to trade a couple of first rounders, so we couldn't even fill our roster with draft picks, either.

Dirk and Gay is an improvement, but Dirk/Gay going forward for the next few years also isn't a championship team and that is what we'd be stuck with-- Dirk, Gay and some younger players.

ok, it seems you are an expert...

explain to me how Miami Did it...they had wade $17,024,000 under contract and signed LBJ $17,545,000 and Bosh $17,545,000

explain to me how the Knicks did it...they had Anthony and Stoudamire 40 Mil. under contract and they signed Chandeler $13,604,188


please share your knowledge

[EricaLubarsky]

Originally Posted by nodir41

ok, it seems you are an expert...

explain to me how Miami Did it...they had wade $17,024,000 under contract and signed LBJ $17,545,000 and Bosh $17,545,000

explain to me how the Knicks did it...they had Anthony and Stoudamire 40 Mil. under contract and they signed Chandeler $13,604,188


please share your knowledge

Pretty simple, so I'm not sure I need to explain to you. All those examples were under the previous CBA. The new CBA is much harsher and not only imposes a much more significant tax, but also physically limits teams ability to acquire new players Both teams are going to suffer from the new CBA, but they were at least able to put their team together.

So all the things that have allowed super teams to flourish have all been nerfed.
1) Teams get fined to hell and back for exceeding the tax threshold. Cuban does not have the infinite money of a New York team. (up to a 410% tax for every dollar over the threshold instead of maxing out at 1:1.
2) Teams above the tax threshold only get 3mill in MLE money instead of 5mill. Few players would take a 2mill per year salary cut to come to Dallas.
3) If we get above the tax threshold, we also cannot receive a player in a sign-and-trade, which is how Lebron and Bosh got to Miami and how Chandler got to New York.
4) Cap holds for players were reduced, but still pose a serious problem. We can't just max out our salary and then re-sign our guys. They count against our cap until we relinquish rights to them.
5) We can only give $3mill annually, instead of up to $3mill every transaction. Cuban often did this to sweeten the pot, but now he can only do it once per season.