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Even if we send out EJ and take no salary back, then we are about 900k under the tax with only 11 rostered players, which means we need to sign 3 players to contracts, which would have us right back into the tax.

I really don’t want to get in the weeds on this because again I agree it’s highly unlikely, but this isn’t true. They can convert seabron and/or JRE and hit the 12 player minimum. When you convert a two-way player to a standard minimum contract it doesnt count against the cap. We could also sign a vet to a minimum to reach the limit (which also doesn’t count against the cap). If we moved those four and brought in Reed, we’d be 800k under the cap

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Posted by Soggymoss

Member since Aug 2018

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Posted on 1/15/24 at 2:52 pm to Baron

In season you are only allowed to be under a 14 man roster for 2 weeks, so we would have to convert JRE and Ryan along with signing another guy.

And I don’t know where you got your information from, but minimum contracts do count against the cap, the NBA just pays whatever is above league minimum for veteran players with so many years.

And also, converting 2 ways does count against the cap, which is exactly the reason why we had to wait so long a couple years ago to convert Jose, because otherwise it would’ve pushed us into the tax.

Not trying to go back and forth here, but throwing shite that would never work against the wall based on false information is not going to help anyone.

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If you are a veteran player with more than three years of experience and you sign a one-year minimum contract, the deal will only count for $2,019,706 against the cap. This is done in order to entice teams to choose older veterans over younger, cheaper players.

The money in a minimum contract becomes prorated to the day a player signs if they choose to ink a minimum deal in the middle of the season.

This post was edited on 1/15/24 at 2:55 pm

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