any certain reason why some of you guys are high on alonzo gee?

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Team makeup...salary. Basically, the LT is 70 million (give or take). A team must carry 13 players. That means an average salary of 5.384 million. So when looking at Korver/Williams. Those are average NBA salaries. Now when you sign someone, you look at their number vs the average. Signing a good vet for 2.5 million, changes the percentage per person you can spend on everyone else up a little bit up to 5.625. The same rule applies when signing people to big contracts. This is what people pissed about Joe don't understand. 70 million 13 players is 5.384 million. Every salary slot is slightly more than the MLE. Give out a 20 million dollar contract. You now have 50 million for 12 players or 4.15 million per player. Your average is less than the MLE. This is significant because the best non stars can sign with any team in the league for the MLE. If you can't give that, you can't work. Complicating this is the cap threshold. 58 million. Let's focus on what Josh, Al, Joe did to this number....20 + 13 +12. That's 45 million. Add Marvin and Zaza and bam..you are at the CAP. Now you can technically only sign vet mins and exemption players. It is more complicated than that, but that's the math of it. Now using that model, replace Joe with a 2 million dollar player. That 18 million freed could be used to upgrade Marvin, Zaza. Or...2 - 14 million dollar players at the 3 and or 2 and 5. It isn't being cheap, its being frugal. Saving here to spend there. The Hawks went the other route 2 years ago. They spent first and hand to scrimp later.

Median salary is more useful in this context than average salary. http://www.nba.com/2011/news/features/steve_aschburner/08/19/average-salary/index.html In the 2009-10 season, the median salary was $2.33 million and less than half of what the "average" salary is due to the significant impact of the highest salaries.