Sentences with phrase «over the salary cap»

He wielded all the power in this scenario; the Rockets are working their spreadsheet magic to make this deal work while technically staying over the salary cap (thus allowing them to make use of provisions like the mid-level exception), but this entire process was set in motion by Paul wanting to play with Harden.
Oklahoma City will be millions over the salary cap next season... and may pay nearly that same amount in luxury tax, too.
Unless they trade away a couple of their starters, the Wizards will be significantly (and I mean WAY, WAY) over the salary cap — and as it stands right now assuming both Meeks and Jason Smith exercise their player options (and they'd be fools not to), and the Wizards pick up the option on Kelly Oubre (and they'd be fools not to), the Wizards guaranteed salaries for 10 players + cap holds for their first round pick and the Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception will put them OVER THE PROJECTED LUXURY TAX LINE by at least $ 8 Million.
Holding out would allow San Antonio to fill in its roster next summer before signing Leonard, whose Bird Rights would allow the team to go over the salary cap.

Not exact matches

Starting next season Curry's salary should be in line with his performance; the NBA's new collective bargaining agreement has dramatically increased each team's salary cap and Curry is expected to make over $ 200 million over the next five years.
The team had just 28 players under contract, so it came into the day with over $ 25 million in salary cap space.
This leaves them with $ 24 million of salary cap room — enough space to sign LeBron James to a max contract with enough left over to sign a few smaller role players.
The Indiana Pacers, who are rebooting after losing Paul George's heart, decided to waive Ellis in early July and stretch his salary cap hit over five years.
You could have $ 1.5 million base salary this year, making this year's cap hit at $ 3.5 million and the rest of money spread out over the next three years.
Over the next five seasons (when he would again be eligible to become a free agent) Hill could earn $ 56.25 million if he remained with Detroit, or $ 54 million if he jumped to Orlando or Chicago, the only teams that now have enough room under the cap to offer him the maximum salary.
In return the salary cap would rise to about $ 45 million over the next three seasons, roughly $ 18 million above the 1997 - 98 cap.
The phrase lent an august tone to this fiscal tug - of - war, as if Socrates and Saint Augustine had been in a secret location debating the acquisition of knowledge (the Greek favors inquiry, Saint Augustine faith; no word on salary caps) instead of owners and players arguing over which economic system should define a $ 2 billion business.
Prior to restructuring Curtis Lofton's contract, the Saints were roughly $ 20 million over the 2013 salary cap.
If you're retooling while hoping to remain competitive, Crowder and Bradley will be much more help than Oladipo, a 25 - year - old who will earn about 20 percent of the salary cap over the next four years.
The only player due to count more than $ 8.5 million against the team's salary cap is defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson — the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears are the only other teams with just one player over that mark.
As I noted before, the dollars handed out this weekend either on the free agent market through extensions just don't jive with the slow climb of the salary cap over the last few years.
The salary cap is $ 99.09 million this season, and Utah has just over $ 89 million committed to players.
And if those teams go over the fake salary cap, they'll have even fewer chances at those young prospects because of subsection a)(paragraph 6)(revision 4.1).
It'd be one thing to re-sign a middling defenseman to a $ 3 - 4 million cap hit when you have over $ 40 million in salary cap space.
Still waiting for Matt Ryan to bend our salary cap over for the next few years.
The deal was for $ 25 million over three years, though if Chicago were to match, the third year comes with a $ 14 million salary cap hit thanks to the «poison pill» clause that Rockets GM Daryl Morey also exploited in the Jeremy Lin chase.
Since James has been in the league for over 10 years and has been with the his current team for two years, he is eligible for a four - year contract with 7.5 % annual raises at 35 % of the salary cap.
That's important, since Denver is facing serious salary cap spikes over the next couple seasons.
Sloan sits, sans agent, on the couch in Miller's office, wearing his beloved John Deere cap; Miller throws out a figure that generally ranks in the top third of coaches» salaries; Sloan thinks it over for a moment and says something along the lines of, Yep.
Rodgers is due to count just over $ 20.5 million against the salary cap in 2018 and $ 21.1 million in 2019.
The fake salary cap put in place by the new collective bargaining agreement negotiated at the end of 2016 is to blame, but that mostly just suggests that what we're seeing is a form of legal collusion, where the owners managed to put one over the Players Union by making it seem as if the savings from the international and amateur markets would come back to veteran MLB players.
Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «The fact that the application of this cap would result in over half of overseas trained teachers having to quit their jobs shows the extent to which the Government's pay policies have depressed teachers» salaries.
«Management salaries should be capped, raises for employees making over $ 60,000 should be removed from the budget and our contracts need to be settled quickly and fairly.»
While lawmakers raised beginning teachers» salaries in 2014 and 2015, veteran teachers were for the most part left behind, with minuscule pay bumps over the past several years, base salaries capped at $ 50,000 and salary supplements eliminated for teachers who earn master's degrees.
Edit: Assumptions that usually land me in hot water are: long term rates at 4 % to 5 %, salary adjustments of ~ 4 % per year up to a cap (a cap equal to what a senior person in my industry is paid, has mimicked my salary raises surprisingly well actually), I assume a 20 % tax rate on earnings averaged over all accounts, then I seek to replace an «inflation» adjusted 100K at ~ 1.5 % per year (my real goal would be a CPI adjusted 100K into the future, which very likely would not be driven by inflation, but no one has one of those crystal balls).
Over on The New York Times DealBook blog, former Wall Street Journal Law Blog author Dan Slater takes the American Bar Association and law schools to task for failing to put a cap on school admissions at a time when law firms are slashing jobs, cutting salaries and canceling summer programs.
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