Hollinger Tweets that Cap Hit for Utah will only be 7.7 Mil.

Does this mean that Utah would be more willing to sign Milsap?

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I think that makes the total paid for him next year about $20 million

6 and change for salary, 6 and change for the signing bonus plus the 7.7 mil tax.

Rex is a starter by the 2010 trade deadline. Watch.

by dan_the_man on Jul 10, 2009 11:08 PM PDT reply actions

huh

Oden...Aldridge...Roy.....THE REAL BIG THREE

by CroRupt on Jul 10, 2009 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions

SALARY ~ 6 million
Signing Bonus ~6 million

Cap situation
Utah will be over the cap if they sign Milsap and can’t trade Boozer by the end of the season.
Salary + Dispersed signing bonus wound hit their cap at about 7.7 according to dan the man.
that is the 7.7 million he mentioned.

6 + 6 + 7.7 = 21.7 million cash money the signing would potentially cost them over just the first year.

"Knowledge will get you from A to B. Creativity will get you anywhere." Einstein

by Garden of ODEN on Jul 11, 2009 12:44 AM PDT up reply actions

6 + 6+7.7 =19.7 Sorry sleepy

"Knowledge will get you from A to B. Creativity will get you anywhere." Einstein

by Garden of ODEN on Jul 11, 2009 12:45 AM PDT up reply actions

I'll split the $2 million with you, even

60-40!

by LaoTzu on Jul 11, 2009 1:46 AM PDT up reply actions

Even if its not a luxury tax hit....

Utah still has to pay big money up front. I do not think we will see Millsap in a Blazer uni, I think we just stuck it to the Jazz. There was talk of Millsap signing with them for the mid-level or less. Take that. This is for Karl Malone elbowing Brian Grant.

by blazer23-83 on Jul 11, 2009 12:39 AM PDT reply actions

"Tweets" for breaking news...

rub me the wrong way a bit. Sure, the entire internet was used and viewed this way at one time. “It was written down, so it must be true!”. Now if it’s tweeted it must be true. I suppose eventually the automatic filters in your mind kick in and you learn to sift through this new barrage of information just like any other.

The other alternative is that this is my technology threshold. That point in life that everybody comes to where the hill gets too steep, and rather than staying on top of technology they suddenly stop or slide backwards. Yep, I remember when knowing how to program your VCR made you king of technology.

Where’s my rocking chair?

The cowards never started
The weak died along the way
Only the strong survived
They were the Trailblazers

by lukeyhere on Jul 11, 2009 8:46 AM PDT reply actions

This wasn't breaking news.

It’s the same numbers that have been posted on BEdge repeatedly.

Keep in mind that everything I know about basketball I learned on Blazers Edge.

by pualo on Jul 11, 2009 9:28 AM PDT up reply actions

i'm not even sure that

ripxxxiv was claiming that it was true; however, a fairly reputable source (hollinger) released some information, and it was proffered up to the BEdge community for discussion. “Is this accurate? Does this make sense with what we’ve heard earlier? Does this change anything?”

i agree with you that twitter is silly, though (even though i have one, haha). i mean, if your full-time job is writing about basketball, just take five minutes and write a blurb instead of taking 30 seconds to shout some garbled lolcats message! eventually something will give; either the market will get progressively dumber and we’ll consume all of our media in sound bytes, or twitter will fall out of fashion (or both).

and get those got-danged kids off my lawn!

GG MFer!
-joel przybilla

by hossticles on Jul 11, 2009 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions

I wrote that rather poorly.

I wasn’t knocking the original poster or the content of the post. It was just my irrational rant against twitter and similar things. I’m on that edge where I can either trudge forward or get left behind.

I’m sending the kids back to your lawn now, buddy!!

The cowards never started
The weak died along the way
Only the strong survived
They were the Trailblazers

by lukeyhere on Jul 11, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions

Hollinger is right

The cap hit would be $7.7 million.

However, it is also true that if Utah matched and was unable to trade Boozer for $12 million in cap relief, Utah would also be paying nearly $20 million in cash out as a result of matching his contract.

Money out does not always equal cap hit.

For example, this past season, Lamar Odom’s cap hit was over $14 million, although the Lakers only paid him about $11 million.

by Storyteller on Jul 11, 2009 12:35 PM PDT reply actions