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You can't go over the cap to sign a UFA
Woj: Lebron seeking max contract from Heat
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You can't go over the cap to sign a UFA
Greenstrings
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It clearly isn't all about titles or we wouldn't be having this conversation, its a balancing act and Lebron is in a position to put more pressure on his front office. If the big 3 sputtered in the finals and its now exclusively Lebron's team, he would only be undermining himself if he didn't demand that the organisation reflect that.
The whole point of the Spurs spanking was that it demonstrated to the fullest that no player is better than an open shot. Lebron's game is fine as is, he won back to back championships playing that way so only a fool would suggest he switch up unless personnel changes demanded it.
king.kristofe
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ehhh. purely as a basketball player in 2015, that's true. but franchise is nothing without wade. like lebron, wade's been underpaid almost his entire career. like lebron, he's never been the highest paid player on his team either. on top of that, he spent half of his prime on teams that couldn't compete so they'd be able to bring in lebron. he could easily see these next 2 years at 42 mill as back pay.
If I'm not mistaken payroll for the heat has been around 75 mill if not more the past 3-4 years, why wouldn't they continue to do the same???
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king.kristofe
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That's because they've been over the cap.
Salary cap is projected to be 63 mil
If LeBron wants the max, he'll make 21 mil next year
If Bosh wants 5/75, he'll make 14 mil next year
If Wade wants 4/55, he'll get 13 mil next year
That's 48 for the Big 3. Norris Cole is under contract for 2 mill. Miami's gonna bring over James Ennis from Australia for about 800k. That'll leave them with 5 players and 12 mill to spend to fill out the rest of the roster. UD is coming back at about 2.5 mill a year, Napier is gonna get 1 mil. So that leaves them with 8.5 mill in cap space plus the MLE to fill 8 spots.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
Arison shook about paying that repeater tax. Even if they are winnings ups.
why are all these brothers underpaid? explain that
You don't keep the MLE if you have cap space. You just get that bullshyt mid room exception.
greedy ass billonare owners changed the rules
The repeater tax was negotiated into the new collective bargaining agreement during the 2011 lockout. The owners were seeking a hard salary cap to limit costs. When the players insisted on a soft cap, harsher taxes became the owners' next-best remedy. In 2015-16, and for each season thereafter, the repeater tax will be levied against teams that are paying a luxury tax for the fourth time in the past five seasons. (To avoid the repeater taxes a team will have to dip below the luxury-tax threshold for two years over the course of a five-year window.)
It threatens to change the way championship teams are assembled. The idea of building a championship contender for a long-term run may no longer be a reasonable goal. Remember when Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant were criticized for allowing their feud to break up a dynasty that could have dominated the NBA for a decade? That kind of goal won't be in play for contenders who can't afford to pay the repeater tax.
Teams such as the Heat may be forced to voluntarily withdraw from title contention, even though James and Bosh will be at their peak while Dwyane Wade will be only 32 entering the pivotal 2014-15 season. Dallas owner Mark Cuban was criticized for not re-signing his players to defend their 2010-11 title, as championship teams traditionally do. But the new taxes have rendered that tradition untenable: Holding that team together would have led to unjustifiable penalties for a roster that was too old to remain in contention.
The goal for most franchises (including Cuban's Mavericks) will now be to avoid a luxury tax until they are positioned to win the championship -- because once the payroll crosses the tax threshold, the clock will start ticking down, and a contender may have only a three-year window of contention before the team must be broken up to avoid the repeater tax.
LOL lebron get your paper my nikka. fukk these cac owners
Lebron is would be worth 50 mil per a season on the open market. I think the salary cap is some bullshyt. Always has been. I like when nikkas like KG were getting 200 million dollar deals.
Well Miami can get the MLE and this is how. They go over the salary cap to resign their own FA but not too much. Then they sign a MLE center (Okafor) is the only good one out there and that's how. Not as flexible as many on here think it is. If they could land a couple cheap players like Xavier Henry, I think that will help their depth a tad.
I've heard LeBatard talk about this a couple of times on the show. Arison actually loses money with the Heat. It's an expensive toy for him and like any smart financially sound person he would want to control costs.