Around the NBA, news/game discussions (Dec. 09)

[Glenn]

lol @ the Millsap fantasy thing, but actually he's doing "fine" with Booz, but he'd be a stud with him gone

I'm guessing that insurance is going to pick up some/all of Harpring's salary, but unsure how that effects lux tax, if at all.

[Glenn]

Looks like that fell through, he's going back to the Rockets instead.

Wafer failed his physical.

[Glenn]

Harpring's partly insurance-protected $6.5 million salary will come off the Jazz's current payroll, which before the trade stood at about $82 million — roughly $12 million over the $69.92 million tax threshold.

The remaining $885,000 of Maynor's $1.32 salary comes off the books as well, but its loss will be partly offset by the signing of a new reserve point.

The dollar-for-dollar tax faced by the Jazz, then, is reduced by the amount their payroll has been trimmed.

All of which, even when factoring the insurance payments on Harpring deal, leaves Utah about $10.46 million or so better off than it was before Tuesday.

In essence, total cost of player salary and tax for this season dropped from about $94 million to less than $84 million on Tuesday — and it could keep falling, because they're now less than $5 million over the tax threshold, and could get completely under, and actually get a rebate from the league for doing so, by making another deal or two by the NBA's Feb. 18 trade deadline.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7...ring.html?pg=2

[Glenn]

Bynum, Kwame & Wilcox for Millsap, Koufos & Fesenko works, lol

[Glenn]

The Thunder also waived Shaun Livingston and Mike Wilks to make room for Maynor/Harpring.

[Timone]

I hate anyone that doesn't like Brandon Roy.

[Uncle Mxy]

Juwan Howard has been starting for the Blazers.
Zoinks yo!

[Joe Asberry]

Darko Milicic insists that the Pistons lied to him after taking him with the second pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.

"Yes, they did," Milicic said. "They lie to everybody. It's the NBA. The NBA, all around the league, same (garbage). 'Your chance is going to come.' All that kind of (garbage). (Forget) that.

"I've got enough of that kind of stuff, so I decided I'm going to Europe."

Milicic announced earlier this season that he plans to return to Europe next summer.

He has appeared in just eight games for the Knicks this season.

"I've got to be real," he said. "There is no team in the league that is going to give me the chance that I'm looking for. My only chance is back in Europe. I'm going to do that. I want to be happy. I vant to play."

lol