Sentences with phrase «salary cap room»

Cleveland would still have Anthony Bennett coming off the bench and would likely use their remaining salary cap room to sign LeBron favorites like Ray Allen and Mike Miller.

Do you ever hear / see any other team, especially championship - caliber ones, talk about hoarding their compensatory picks and / or saving salary cap room for rookie pools and in - season injury windfalls as reasons to not be active in free agency?

It's just hard to swallow the idea that there's another walking risk tying up more of that precious salary cap room.

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.

Rumor has it that the Houston Rockets are expected to trade away Jeremy Lin and use that salary cap room to sign former Heat F / C Chris Bosh to a max contract.

Not exact matches

His time in limbo ended on Monday when the Galaxy cleared room under its $ 1.3 million salary cap by trading defender Mark Semioli to the New York / New Jersey MetroStars.

«We know this has the chance to work out pretty well,» Gabriel says of his radical plan to alter the NBA landscape by clearing a lot of salary - cap room on his roster and trying to sign two free agents from among the cream of this year's crop: Tim Duncan, Grant Hill, Eddie Jones and Tracy McGrady.

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.

The Dolphins were pushed tight against the salary cap before doling out big money to their star receiver, with less than $ 6 million in spending room slated for 2018 even before signing their upcoming draft picks.

But with the contracts of Billy Owens and Abdul - Rauf up this summer and the Kings unlikely to pick up their option on Polynice, Sacramento will have room under the salary cap to upgrade its personnel.

Squads like the Kings (picking No. 5, about $ 11.8 million in cap room this year before holds), Raptors (No. 8, $ 10.3 million), Hornets (No. 10, $ 20.3 million) and Suns (No. 13, $ 25.7 million) make more sense as trading partners for the Bulls, due to their combination of a lottery pick and cap space to absorb Deng's salary and provide the Bulls with instant savings.

Soon, though, Pitino decided he needed to make salary - cap room to sign free - agent center Travis Knight.

I'm not sure how much salary they would retain, but the main selling point of this deal for Dallas is the extra cap room that they could spend elsewhere.

However, they are extremely tight against the salary cap, and short of a veteran contract purge, Arizona probably doesn't have the room to pay Cousins what he's worth.

To give another team salary relief without making the Suns own cap sheet onerous, the Suns would have to find a team with cap room for him (which isn't going to happen), or find a team with their own expiring contract of similar size, or take back draft picks.