koncak Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Can the Hawks take the $7M in the retired J Bender's expiring contract as part of a sign and trade? If so: Foster Bender's contact slot #1 pick for Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swolehawk2 Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 What slot do you project the #1 pick fall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member sturt Posted July 12, 2006 Premium Member Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Actually, that's a very interesting thought. And almost as interesting is that you chose the UserName that you did... lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koncak Posted July 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 I assume that Indiana would lottery protect the pick. My guess is that if JO is healthy it would be in the 17-20 range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankSlade7 Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Quote: Can the Hawks take the $7M in the retired J Bender's expiring contract as part of a sign and trade? If so: Foster Bender's contact slot #1 pick for Al I am fairly certain that cannot happen. Technically Bender's Salary is already off the books , since the Medical Exemption is actually paying for his remaining portion of the contract. Also that would be too much money to start out his first year on the new contract. Factoring in the 125% Rule , As long as ATL and IN are within 25% plus 100K of eath other whent trading it will work for example. Right now Indy could trade Stephen Jackson who makes around $ 6 Million for Zaza who makes around 4 million. So factoring in the number of teams interested, what he is making now, and the FA market next year; I would expect him to get something in the area of 55-60 million over 5 years , So his first year should be around 9 million or so Any team would just need to get within 125% either way of that. So technically as long as Indy comes up with around 7 million in Salary or so they could sign and trade for Al and pay him 9 mil his first season. No maybe he gets a bigger contract , but that is one example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swolehawk2 Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Not a bad deal, we get a very good vet rebounding backup 5...a pick that we could use or trade and cap space for a better free agency market next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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