J.R. Smith has literally been shanghaied away for the foreshortened 2011-2012 NBA season: rolling ILH sandbox thread

i'm still unclear on this - so if a dude gets amnestied and is not picked up by another team on waivers, he basically gets his whole contract bought out? so if billups doesn't get picked up he'll be getting paid anyway and can sign with the heat for the vet min?

― k3vin k., Friday, December 9, 2011 11:42 AM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

no, i think it's that the player's contract stays the same -- he doesn't get more or less money -- if he doesn't get picked up, the old team just pays it out as if he was on the team -- if he does get picked up, there's some system that determines how much of the existing contract the new team pays

no i think i read somewhere that the og team buys him out but the salary doesn't count against their cap?

i don't think that if the player gets picked up that he loses any of his salary -- there's no way the union would've agreed to that

in other news, the nets are going to get investigated by the league for tampering. apparently dwight met up w/ prohk & billy king in miami w/o orlando's knowledge.

"is not legal?"

lol

i don't think that if the player gets picked up that he loses any of his salary -- there's no way the union would've agreed to that

― v-shasty, Friday, December 9, 2011 12:46 PM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

yah he gets it all either way, only diff as far as i can tell is if he signs a new contract as a free agent he gets that money too

dear david stern plz send dwight howard to boston and also chris paul if u feel like it thank you

player is bought out for the amount due him; his salary does not count against the cap.

player is guaranteed to get all the money remaining on his contract.

teams under the cap may bid on his services - x amount per year remaining. x amount is subtracted from the amount owed to him from original team and paid by claimant.

if he clears waivers, he may sign with whomever for whatever. I believe this is also subtracted from amount original team owes. I don't believe he can end up making more than before.

no i'm saying that a team can cut a bad contract to make room for someone else, but they still have to pay him his contract. but that money is basically under the table and the contract does not count on their payroll

so say billups is not picked up on waivers by another team - the knicks buy him out of his contract - he gets his money - and now since he's paid anyway he can just go to a contending team to play for a low price

but idk that wouldnt make sense b/c he could just re-sign with the knicks lol

xps

okay all of that makes sense -- the phrase "bought out" was throwing me off cuz normally it refers to the team buying the contract back for less than it's worth

yah is there a rule that u cant resign yr amnestied players

miss u big baby but i think your run here needed to be over

so couldn't the knicks just amnesty him and - crossing their fingers hoping no one claims him - sign him for ten cents on the dollar, freeing up cap space?

xp ha i figured, that makes sense

If a team acquires an amnestied player through secondary waivers, they pay a portion of the player’s salary equal to their bid. If the Knicks waive Billups and the Clippers are the winning bidder at $5 million, then the Clippers pay him $5 million this season, with the Knicks continuing to be responsible for the remaining $9.2 million of his $14.2 million salary.

My understanding is he can't resign with the Knicks. I believe any player bought out under amnesty or otherwise (say, the new stretch provision) may not sign with that team for a calendar year, as with traded players (preventing the Big Z/Gary Payton shenanigans of yore).

You can't make this shit up:

"Warriors reserve guard Charlie Bell spent hours in custody Thursday after showing up to court legally drunk for a hearing on his drunken driving case, according to the ABC affiliate in Flint, Mich."

o dude

apparently charlie bell really likes drinking!

I hope he got a ride to court.

man that is fucked

It's like that time Eddy Curry met his Weight Watcher's consultant at Golden Corral.

how fast does the amnesty process work (e.g., will we know today if billups or davis have been chosen by any of the below-cap teams)?

lol, i'm hoping against hope that curry shows up today in top-shape!

he's been out of the news so long there's no idea what he'll look like, except it's likely he will be 836 pounds.

its like that time eddy griffin got caught driving while watching porn

rip eddie griffin

too soon.

dear david stern plz send dwight howard to boston and also chris paul if u feel like it thank you

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, December 9, 2011 5:49 PM

its like a letter to santa lol

hahaha

never forget

http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_nba_experts__44/ept_sports_nba_experts-932232481-1264522402.jpg?ymiiKlCDGTJ7G2x5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKv0168iL5Q

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA -- Y! Free Agent-Trade Buzz: Nets preparing huge offer for Nene Friday, reports swirling of tampering with Dwight Howard.

lol every star player is going to hate the league soon.

not sure if this tweet means that the nets -- fearing a tampering investigation or an invalidation of their possible trade with orlando -- are now turning away from howard to nene, or if this is the first piece of a two-piece plan to get both howard and nene on their team. that would be a pretty formidable frontcourt.

i don't see how they could afford howard nene and dwill, but who knows

im gonna cry watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_umiVFdykI

fuck knees

wait why would they want nene and howard

nene is athletic enough to play the 4

Sign Nene and trade him for Howard.

or that -- nene's agent would prob get a whiff of that and steer clear tho

billups to heat is possiblee ?

hey guys so cp3 was traded to the lakers last night then i went out to dinner and read a book and went to bed and then

http://www.reclusland.com/compass/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/fd2140ebc47fed75f7f18b8cd0566adb.jpg

seriously what is going onnnnn

rip brandon roy

@EthanJSkolnick -- The Heat got 3 years each of Battier and Jones for a combined total of less than $15M. Clippers paid $24M for 3 years of Caron.

and i guess samuel dalembert has gone into hibernation until nene decides where he's going

yeah i take back my initial reaction to the caron signing pls

24m is a lot no matter what the cba is all about

yeah

who r u btw?

dirt mcgirt aka big baby jesus aka joe bananas aka formerly agent hibachi

ahhh i was trying to run down the list of ilh regs and i knew i was forgetting someone!!