re: Keep Holiday and Davis and blow the rest of the roster up. Who's with me?

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ATL, seems like stretching Gordon is an option, but would it make more sense to either let him fall off the books and/or trade him before the deadline next year?

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Here's the problem with waiting for 2016, that's the year AD gets paid. Even if you don't have anyone else on the team but Holiday, Evans, Davis, Asik, and Ryno AND the cap goes to $80 million, you still only have $6 million in cap space. That does assume Ryno and Asik both get around $12 million, but even if you get them for a little less you still don't have much cap space.

One caveat to this is that the reporting on the 2016 salary cap figure has been pretty fuzzy. I've seen anywhere from $80-$95 million. So a best case scenario of you getting Asik and Ryno for $10 each, and the cap goes to $95, then you have about $21 million in cap space. Although that's not nearly as much as it sounds, it's about $13 million in 2012 cap dollars.

So there's a chance waiting for 2016 can really pay off, but there's also a chance you'll be tapped out and unable to sign a starting level FA, which you would have the ability to do by stretching Gordon and dumping Rivers in 2015.