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PLANT:

--- Quote from: 7 on February 04, 2006, 10:36:53 AM ---Why not just buying a niggas contract out then? Is a waived player still buggin your salary cap when you bought his contract out and send him packin?

Houston rule!

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Man, you just dont get it do you?  Its not rocket science.....If you buy the players contract out, then you are still paying the 17 mil to buy out Jalens contract.  Now that Jalen is a Knick, New York has to pay Jalen and took over his contract.  So the Raptors dont owe Jalen shit anymore therefore Toronto now has an extra 17 mil to play with.  Obviously Jalen was not part of that Raptors future plans, but it was hard for them to get rid of him becuase his contract is worth so much and hes way overpaid.  Typical of the Knicks to pick up a player like that.  They always go after guys like Penny Hardaway, Eddie Curry and now Jalen Rose who are overpaid and overated players.  

7even:
Of course you have to give him money when you buy him out no shit but he won't be on your roster anymore and that what it's all about isnt it?
That you have to pay some millions only matters if the owner is a broke dude. Cause them millions from buyin him out wont get on the salary cap
So they shouldve just done that instead of what they did. Like Mavs did Finley. I'd be hella pissed if Mavs traded Finley and picks for bullshit players instead of buyin his contract out.

Toronto basically traded a 1st round pick for Davis which is a horrible trade at that. They shouldve just give 15 mil to Rose in the offseason and send him packin, situation would be the same only that they still had the pick.

PLANT:
man you are making me feel like smashing my head off the wall

The point was not to get rid of Jalen, but to get rid of his contract.  If you bought him out, then you wouldnt be getting rid of his contract now would you?

Toronto would rather sign other players like Mike James ect. and have some cap room instead of keep Jalen and his contract. 

Here is an example......Lets say the cap is 50 million per year and Toronto had 48 million invested in its players.  They only have 2 mil to work with, which isnt gona get you jack shit in the NBA.  So they trade Jalen to the Knicks and his contract with 17 Million left on it.  48-17 is 31.  So now Toronto only has 31 million invested in its players for next season and they have 19 million to play around with and get guys they need and add some pieces to the puzzle. 

The reason they traded Jalen was becuase they had to now.  They need to make moves this year and cant wait till Jalens contract expires or they wont have a chance in resigning players like James and Bosh becuase they simply wont have enough money.  If they had just waited unti, Jalens contract expired than all that money would have been tied up this summer and they wouldnt have been able to make any moves.

7even:
it's not that Im missin the point homie, it's just that as far as I know, when a nigga got his contract bought out, you got rid of both of them. the nigga and the contract. lakers did it with grant, mavs did it with finley, knicks wanted to do it with houston.

whatever, let's stop talkin bout that.

PLANT:
ok well why would you buy someones contract out when you could just dump them to someone else (knicks) and now they have to pay it.?   sounds like a smart business move to me

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