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  • Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

    I wasn't going to do this until I found out what happens tomorrow. However, nothing is guaranteed to happen tomorrow and I wanted to see what our cap looks like. Since other people are interested I thought I would share my findings. Figures are correct as far as I could check. I did estimate James White's salary.

    This is our salary cap situation according to various sites, as of 07-24-06.

    PLAYER SALARIES
    Jermaine O'Neal..........18,084,000
    Steven Jackson............6,080,000
    Marquis Daniels............5,883,600
    Jamaal Tinsley.............5,714,286
    Jeff Foster..................5,200,000
    Sarunas Jasikevicius.....4,000,000
    Danny Granger.............1,417,800
    Darrel Armstrong..........1,178,348 vet minimum for 13 years.
    Shawne Williams..........1,139,800
    David Harrison...............960,840
    Josh Powell...................744,551 not guaranteed
    Rawle Marshall...............664,209 not guaranteed
    Orien Greene.................664,209
    James White..................664,209 est.

    Total.........................52,395,852

    Exceptions count against the cap just as player salaries do. We have 4 exceptions.

    7,500,000 Peja trade exception.
    ..535,791 remaining from the James Jones trade exception. Expires 08-25-06.
    5,215,000 Mid level Exception.
    1,750,000 Biennial Exception.

    Total....................... 15,000,791

    Salaries plus exceptions equal 67,396,643.

    The salary cap for the coming year is set at $53.135 million. So even if we renounced all of our exceptions we would be less than a million dollars under the salary cap.

    53,135,000 salary cap.
    52,395,852 player salaries.
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    739,148 under the cap.

    Observation #1
    Looking at the figures there is no way the Pacers can get far enough under the cap to sign Al Harrington out right. For the Pacers to get Al it has to be a sign and trade or Al would have to accept the mid-level exception.

    Now lets look at player salaries with Al added.

    PLAYER SALARIES
    Jermaine O'Neal..........18,084,000
    Al Harrington................7,600,000 (Trade exception plus 100,000)
    Steven Jackson............6,080,000
    Marquis Daniels............5,883,600
    Jamaal Tinsley.............5,714,286
    Jeff Foster..................5,200,000
    Sarunas Jasikevicius.....4,000,000
    Danny Granger.............1,417,800
    Darrel Armstrong..........1,178,348 vet minimum for 13 years
    Shawne Williams..........1,139,800
    David Harrison...............960,840
    Josh Powell...................744,551
    Rawle Marshall...............664,209
    Orien Greene.................664,209
    James White..................664,209 est.

    Total.........................59,999,852

    The luxury tax level is 65.42 million for the coming year.

    65,420,000 The point where the luxury tax kicks in.
    59,999,852 player salaries.
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    5,420,148 under the luxury tax.

    Observation #2.
    We could use all the mid level exception and still be under the luxury tax.

    Observation #3.
    The reason for the rumors we might waive Josh Powell and Rawle Marshall might be so we could sign Scott Pollard to the vet minimum (1,071,225 for 9 years) and still use the full mid level exception and stay under the luxury tax threshold.

    With Pollard signed and and a player signed to the full mid level we would have 17 players so we would have to get rid of two players anyway. That would likely be Josh Powell and Rawle Marshall because their contracts are not guaranteed.

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    Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

    I'm too lazy to look it up, but I thought someone posted that we used the Jones exception to sign Greene?

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      Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

      Originally posted by SycamoreKen
      I'm too lazy to look it up, but I thought someone posted that we used the Jones exception to sign Greene?
      We picked him up off of waivers.

      Pacers Pick Up Greene

      http://www.nba.com/pacers/news/green...ed_060709.html
      By Conrad Brunner | July 9, 2006
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      The Pacers added point guard Orien Greene to their roster Sunday. The former Celtics reserve will join the team in Orlando, where the Pacers begin summer-league play Monday, but it is uncertain if he will play. The Pacers have 15 players on their summer-league roster.
      The 6-4 Greene was a second-round pick of the Celtics in 2005 from Louisiana-Lafayette and appeared in 80 games as a rookie, averaging 15.4 minutes, 3.2 points and 1.6 assists.

      He was waived after the Celtics picked up two point guards on draft night, selecting Rajon Rondo of Kentucky and acquiring Sebastian Telfair in a trade with Portland.

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        Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

        Originally posted by Will Galen
        We picked him up off of waivers.
        Waivers aint free ya know. We did use the TE

        http://www.pacersdigest.com/forums/s...04&postcount=2
        STARBURY

        08 and Beyond

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          Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

          Originally posted by Robertmto
          Waivers aint free ya know. We did use the TE

          http://www.pacersdigest.com/forums/s...04&postcount=2
          Ah . . . I didn't have him down as free. Anyway thanks, I'll edit my post.

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            Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

            Originally posted by Will Galen
            Ah . . . I didn't have him down as free. Anyway thanks, I'll edit my post.
            no problem
            STARBURY

            08 and Beyond

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            • #7
              Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

              Since when does the MLE count against the cap if you don't use it? That doesn't make any sense.

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                Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

                Originally posted by SycamoreKen
                I'm too lazy to look it up, but I thought someone posted that we used the Jones exception to sign Greene?
                They did. edit - WG fixed it, but I did some work here so I'll leave my response.

                Greene was on WAIVERS and as I understand it you claim him at the salary he was getting by the team that waived him. Was Boston only paying him the minimum? I didn't realize that, I thought he was getting a little more.

                Anyway, all this means is that PART of the JJ TE has been used, whatever the difference between Greene's salary with Boston for year 2 (664 is league min for signing a player with 1 year experience, but that's not what Indy did here).

                I found this on his Boston contract (ledger.southofboston.com)
                the Celtics offered him a three-year, $1.8 million contract
                Off of waivers the Pacers pick up the last 2 years of that deal. From the SalaryCap FAQ (Larry Coon)
                If a player on waivers is claimed, the new team acquires his existing contract and pays the remainder of his salary.
                and
                A team can claim a waived player only if one of the following is true:
                (#3) The team has a Traded Player exception for at least the player's salary


                Another slight mistake here is assuming that Armstrong does not retire. If he does Indy does not have to pay him, and if they don't then he comes off the cap. Whatever you pay to a retired player counts vs the cap, but only if you pay them (like Reggie or James Worthy got).

                In essence a retiring Armstrong allows the Mavs to receive salary in the form of AJ without the Pacers really having to take any back. Mavs get something for nothing, Pacers get salary relief and perhaps something to use toward another situation.



                The salary cap for the coming year is set at $53.135 million. So even if we renounced all of our exceptions we would be less than a million dollars under the salary cap.
                You don't "renounce" exceptions, you LOSE THEM if you go under the cap. Yes, even the traded player exceptions. They are called EXCEPTIONS meaning exceptions you get if you are over the cap that allow you to do moves when the cap says you shouldn't be able to. They are spaces in the cap in which you can add salary when the cap says you aren't supposed to be able to add any more. You can't combine them either. And the space + 25% you get when you send a player(s) out is considered another exception, so no combining a player's salary (an exception) with the MLE or TE.

                If you are under the cap then there is no limit to have an exception for, at least in the sense of these.


                Maybe it was at RATS, but I went through this in detail yesterday and it boils down to this, with Fred going out the Pacers can use the full MLE and stay under the tax. Going below the CAP would be horrible because it would cost them the 7.6m space they want to use for AL (or something at the very least). They are no way near going 7.6m under the cap to make up for losing that if they went a little under the cap even.

                So this is about being above the cap, using the exceptions they can to the point of avoiding the lux tax. You get Al in, lose Fred and AJ, perhaps have Armstrong retire, use the MLE, all's well and you miss the lux tax. Heck, you still have room for the vet minimum in that case, even if you sign Pollard at his seniority value.

                In fact DA would basically be getting the contract Pollard would get if he was signed. So it could be that he retires and Pollard takes his place against the cap.


                Also, until Pollard signs with another team he counts against the Pacers cap. All FA's create "holds" on their last team's cap until they are signed (or the Pacers renounce their BIRD rights for resigning him as they did with Fred). Pollard counts 150% against the Pacers cap because he wasn't on a rookie contract and his salary was at or above the NBA average I believe. I could be wrong and if his salary was actually below the average then he counts at 200% of last years salary.

                Anyway, if they do renounce then they can't use the Bird rights to give him a better deal, but they can still sign him to a league minimum deal. In this case it's likely their intention to do that, so it wouldn't hurt them. At this point they probably want to maintain their above cap status (in order to retain the TE and MLE) and want to hold on to all their options for signing him until they are sure that they do or don't want to keep him.

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                  Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

                  Originally posted by Hicks
                  Since when does the MLE count against the cap if you don't use it? That doesn't make any sense.
                  It's counted again the cap for purposes of signing players. It's not actually added to the payroll.

                  http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#20

                  20. How do exceptions count against the cap? Does being under the cap always mean that a team has room to sign free agents? Do teams ever lose their exceptions?

                  If a team is below the cap, then their Disabled Player, Bi-Annual, Mid-Level and/or Traded Player exceptions are added to their team salary, and the league treats the team as though they are over the cap. This is to prevent a loophole, in a manner similar to free agent amounts (see question numbers 29, 30, 31, 32). A team can't act like they're under the cap and sign free agents using cap room, and then use their Disabled Player, Bi-Annual, Mid-Level and/or Traded Player exceptions. Consequently, the exceptions are added to their team salary (putting the team over the cap) if the team is under the cap and adding the exceptions puts them over the cap. If a team is already over the cap, then the exceptions are not added to their team salary. There would be no point in doing so, since there is no cap room for signing free agents.
                  So it is not true that being under the cap necessarily means a team has room to sign free agents. For example, assume the cap is $49.5 million, and a team has $43 million committed to salaries. They also have a Mid-Level exception for $5 million and a Traded Player exception for $5.5 million. Even though their salaries put them $6.5 million under the cap, their exceptions are added to their salaries, putting them at $53.5 million, or $4 million over the cap. So they actually have no cap room to sign free agents, and must instead use their exceptions.

                  Teams have the option of renouncing their exceptions in order to claim the cap room. So in the example above, if the team renounced their Traded Player and Mid-Level exceptions, then the $10.5 million is taken off their team salary, which then totals $43 million, leaving them with $6.5 million of cap room which can then be used to sign free agent(s).


                  Starting January 10 of each season, the Mid-Level, Bi-Annual, Larry Bird, Early-Bird and Non-Bird exceptions begin to reduce in value. For example, if there are 180 days in the season, then these exceptions (if they are still unused) reduce by 1/180 of their initial value each day starting January 10. If a team uses their $5 million Mid-Level exception on February 1, then the exception is actually worth $4,361,111.


                  The Disabled Player, Bi-Annual, Mid-Level and Traded Player exceptions may be lost entirely, or the team may never receive them to begin with. This happens when their team salary is so low that when the exceptions are added to the team salary, the sum is still below the salary cap. If the team salary is below this level when the exception arises, then the team doesn't get the exception. If the team salary ever drops below this level during the year, then any exceptions they had are lost.

                  For example, with a $49.5 million salary cap, assume it's the offseason, and a team has $41 million committed to salaries, along with a Mid-Level exception for $5 million, a Traded Player exception for $2.5 million, and an unrenounced free agent whose free agent amount is $2 million. Their salaries and exceptions total $50.5 million, or $1 million over the cap. What if their free agent signs with another team? The $2 million free agent amount comes off their cap, so their team salary drops to $48.5 million. This total is below the cap so the team loses its Mid-Level and Traded Player exceptions.

                  There is logic behind this. The whole idea behind an "exception" is that it is an exception to the rule which says a team has to be below the salary cap. In other words, an exception is a mechanism which allows a team to function above the cap. If a team isn't over the cap, then the concept of an exception is moot. Therefore, if a team's team salary ever drops this far, its exceptions go away. The effect is that a team may have either exceptions or cap room, but they can't have both.
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                  [QUOTE=Naptown_Seth]

                  Another slight mistake here is assuming that Armstrong does not retire. If he does Indy does not have to pay him . . .


                  It's not a mistake to assume he's not going to retire. He said in one of his press confrences that he wanted to play one more year then go into coaching.


                  You don't "renounce" exceptions, you LOSE THEM if you go under the cap.

                  You only lose them if you go the amount of your total exceptions under the cap. If we go a million dollars under the cap we don't lose them, it has to be their total. We are under the cap right now and haven't lost them.

                  And teams can renounce exceptions.

                  http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#14

                  The combined amount of any Mid-Level, Bi-Annual, Disabled Player (see question number 19) or Traded Player exceptions (see question number 69) available to the team (see question number 20), if the team is under the salary cap. (Teams may renounce these exceptions, in which case they no longer are included in team salary.)

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                  • #10
                    Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

                    My mistake on the exceptions counting on cap status. I misunderstood Donnie Walsh in his press conference 2 weeks ago, he must have meant that it wasn't worth giving up (losing them in that sense) the exceptions. I also thought the FAQ had it in there, but obviously this contradicts it and I probably misread.

                    edit - I see what I misread now. I overlooked that in making this example he was already including the exceptions. Ooops.

                    For example, with a $49.5 million salary cap, assume it's the offseason, and a team has $41 million committed to salaries, along with a Mid-Level exception for $5 million, a Traded Player exception for $2.5 million, and an unrenounced free agent whose free agent amount is $2 million. Their salaries and exceptions total $50.5 million, or $1 million over the cap. What if their free agent signs with another team? The $2 million free agent amount comes off their cap, so their team salary drops to $48.5 million. This total is below the cap so the team loses its Mid-Level and Traded Player exceptions.

                    There is logic behind this. The whole idea behind an "exception" is that it is an exception to the rule which says a team has to be below the salary cap. In other words, an exception is a mechanism which allows a team to function above the cap. If a team isn't over the cap, then the concept of an exception is moot. Therefore, if a team's team salary ever drops this far, its exceptions go away. The effect is that a team may have either exceptions or cap room, but they can't have both.


                    On Armstrong, I do think its a mistake to assume he won't retire. I'm not saying its right to assume he will either. My point is that from our view the team could have something planned with that either way, it could be that DA has an understanding now behind the scenes. So for the sake of looking at salary situation I think you look at it the same as considering if they will resign Pollard or not.


                    Anyway, at least I was right about the Pollard on the cap still thing. What was the average salary last year because I don't know.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

                      Originally posted by Naptown_Seth

                      What was the average salary last year because I don't know.
                      I don't remember either. Let me Goggle it.

                      According to Wikipedia, "The mid-level exception in 2004-05 was $4.9 million, while in 2005-06 it is $5 million under the terms of the new CBA."

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                      • #12
                        Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

                        Originally posted by Will Galen
                        I don't remember either. Let me Goggle it.

                        According to Wikipedia, "The mid-level exception in 2004-05 was $4.9 million, while in 2005-06 it is $5 million under the terms of the new CBA."
                        I am an idiot. I forgot the last CBA put the MLE at average right off the bat, so that knowing the MLE answered the question. Its basically the point of the MLE.


                        Pollard at 6.270 last season, goes to 9.405 (150%) against the cap as an FA hold then. One thing is certain, good guy or not, he ain't getting that 6.2 again.


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                        • #13
                          Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

                          Exceptions count against the cap, but not against the LT barrier. So for a team already over the cap, it's essentially meaningless to worry about exceptions. They're only a problem if they're under the cap.
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                          • #14
                            Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

                            Originally posted by Anthem
                            Exceptions count against the cap, but not against the LT barrier. So for a team already over the cap, it's essentially meaningless to worry about exceptions. They're only a problem if they're under the cap.
                            I think you misunderstood the tract of the discussion. The point was to look at where the Pacers were technically speaking (which is why you count Pollard and the TE/MLE on the salary), and then see where they could get to downward and what they had to worry about upward.

                            If they sign players to those TE and MLE amounts they clearly do count toward the lux tax. I'm certain that neither Will or I were saying otherwise, just considering "what if those exceptions are used on players".

                            The other side discussion was my misunderstanding that you couldn't give up your exceptions and that they didn't count toward your status as being over the cap, and therefore capable of keeping them. I was obviously wrong in thinking that. Will set me straight without ripping me, which I appreciate.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Why we might waive Powell and Marshall.

                              I think that, unless we include one or both in a trade as filler, we'll take Powell and Marshall into training camp -- even if it's a 17/18-man roster -- and give them a look.

                              The real question here is whether or not the Pacers will use their Mid-Level or Biennial Exceptions. I expect them to sign one or two more free agents -- even if it's just Pollard -- but I have serious doubts we'll use the MLE. And if we do, I think we'd be more likely to split it or just use part of it rather than using it all on one player. Besides, what FAs are left that are worth the full MLE?. Since use of the MLE requires at least a 3-year contract, I don't see us extending that to anyone that's still available in free agency.
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