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2 teams that have cap space as of today (10/27/09) and 3 that could

Portland Trailblazers - $1,425,171 in cap space
Memphis Grizzlies - $886,517 in cap space
Oklahoma City Thunder - $9,291,899 in cap space if they renounce their exceptions
Sacramento Kings - $4,211,952 in cap space if they renounce their exceptions
New Jersey Nets - $26,665 in cap space if they renounce their exceptions

Need 7 teams total, I can only watch games involving at least one of these teams
Blazers get spot #1 obviously
In order to maximize my coverage, picking all the top teams in the league is counterproductive, given that they are on national TV a lot
looking for ENTERTAINING teams to watch, not necessarily the best teams record-wise
OKC is probably a lock for a spot, with 2 of the big 3 in the East probably in as well. This gives me 3 more spots. Any suggestions?

Houston has been pushing the tempo, and we've been giving up lots of fast breaks. Interesting to see how that works out
Houston will start the 6'6" Chuck Hayes at center. Hayes is no pushover, but giving up 6 inches, Oden better get a LOT of chances down low
Related to the above, if Nate decides to go small ball for large chunks of the game instead of exploiting his own matchup advantage, so help me...
Will we look any better than last year at mitigating the damage of quick penetrating point guards?

i got my priority of opening nite but wish i had put down more money for other nites. my 2-3-4 fav's were lakers cleveland and xmas. ill trade 4-10 tans for tans on either of those other nites.

Raef LaFrentz 2010 "Super-"Expiring Contract: Fiercely debated at the deadline, not used in a deal.
$3 mil trade exception from the Ruffin-Diogu deal: Renounced without fanfare to get under the cap and make an offer to Millsap/Miller. It went away so silently that many fans and even media (Brian Wheeler, Dwight Jaynes, ...) still thought we had it this week.
Trading up in the draft for a package around Sergio: It likely wasn't the best offer KP ever got for him, but 5 spots in the second round was a bit less than most fans expected to get for the flashy young Spaniard (and cash). Similar with Channing. Like players before him he just went away without a deal.
Unguaranteed last contract years for Blake and Outlaw: Fans dreamed up deals that would require the additional cap space, or trading them to a team looking for financial relief that would immediately waive one or both enabling the Blazers to potentially pick them back up later. All possible in theory, yet the team never intended to renounce them.
New hot candidate: Cap holds of unsigned draft picks under contract in Europe (Claver, Freeland, Koponen) come off the cap during regular season, saving ca. $2.5 million in cap space (fits into the idea of actually renouncing them during the offseason). Will this be the key to a lopsided trade later?