Hawks Salary Cap question

[Wurider05]

I just read that the Clipper are targeting Lebron James. If they want him they will have to part with Deandre Jordan and Jamaal Crawford. It there any possible way we could acquire them financially?

Man if we could land both of them the east is ours next season.

[Guest]

http://www.peachtreehoops.com/2014/5/8/5688226/atlanta-hawks-salary-cap-2014-offseason

We could have around $11.4m in cap space. DeAndre would be at roughly $11.4m so he could fit.

I suggest you put down the Bill Simmons crack-pipe and look at the Clipper's salary situation. Them getting LeBron would involve a magic bullet http://data.shamsports.com/content/pages/data/salaries/clippers.jsp . Somehow removing DeAndre, Reddick, Crawford, and Dudley would give them less than $15m in cap space. Then consider LeBron's max to be $20,020,875.

Moral of the story to me? Don't trust what Grantland tells you. Do the research yourself and find out they have plenty of errors. Or at least really ridiculous ideas.

Edited June 18, 2014 by hawksfanatic