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Cunningham declines his option
Posted on 4/29/17 at 11:09 am
Posted on 4/29/17 at 11:09 am
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Dante Cunningham will decline his player option with the New Orleans Pelicans for the 17-18 season to become a free agent. Cunningham's player option for 17-18 was worth $3.1 million. Cunningham averaged 6.6 points and 4.2 rebounds in 25.0 minutes over 66 games this season with the Pelicans.
per realGM
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Posted on 4/29/17 at 11:16 am to cgrand
Traitor
Posted on 4/29/17 at 11:22 am to cgrand
Not a surprise at all. Even if all he does is resigns with the Pels for the same amount with more years it's a move he had to make.
Posted on 4/29/17 at 11:39 am to TigerinATL
certainly the pels are better off without his 3MM on the books while they decide what and how they are going to proceed this offseason
Posted on 4/29/17 at 12:06 pm to cgrand
We still have his bird rights, so what is his cap hold now that he opted out?
Posted on 4/29/17 at 12:12 pm to BallHawk
Somewhere around 4.5 mil.
Posted on 4/29/17 at 12:18 pm to Epic Cajun
So we actually lose some cap space with him opting out and I assume we aren't going to renounce his rights because I would think the organization wants to bring him back. He is a good role player IMO and seems to love NOLA.
Posted on 4/29/17 at 1:11 pm to BallHawk
If someone like CP3 gives you reason to use cap space you can probably bring Cunningham back with the room exception if he's the best player under $5 million you can get. Otherwise you operate over the cap and keep his Bird Rights.
Posted on 4/30/17 at 7:16 am to TigerinATL
I agree with that and maybe my understating of cap rules is still flawed, but being that he opted out his cap number jumps to $4.5m instead of $3m he would have been, right? That would mean we lost $1.5m in cap room.
Also according to TBW we would have to use part of our MLE to bring him back. I thought because of bird rights we could just re-sign him without using one of our exceptions?
Also according to TBW we would have to use part of our MLE to bring him back. I thought because of bird rights we could just re-sign him without using one of our exceptions?
Posted on 4/30/17 at 9:07 am to BallHawk
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Also according to TBW we would have to use part of our MLE to bring him back.
I'm not familiar with the article in question but what you posted is not correct like you thought. We have his Bird Rights even though he opted out. The situation where we'd sign him to an exception is if we operated under the cap and use the Room Level Exception. Perhaps they just worded that poorly because it's a relatively new exception that goes by many names. It started out being called Cap Room MLE. I've also seen Room Level Exception and Cap Room Exception.
Posted on 4/30/17 at 9:49 am to cgrand
Well.. bye!
Posted on 5/1/17 at 10:21 am to cgrand
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ante Cunningham will decline his player option with the New Orleans Pelicans for the 17-18 season to become a free agent. Cunningham's player option for 17-18 was worth $3.1 million. Cunningham averaged 6.6 points and 4.2 rebounds in 25.0 minutes over 66 games this season with the Pelicans.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 11:17 am to WeeWee
Nah screw that. DC was very solid for us.
It was obvious he was going to do this, because he is worth more than that.
It was obvious he was going to do this, because he is worth more than that.
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