kobe on the move?, where will he go... Options

[ZoomSlowik]

Except that trade doesn't work financially, the Bulls are still over $6 mil short. Noc is a base year compensation player and can't be dealt until December, and if they were to try to re-sign Gordon to make the deal close that would have similar issues.

Base Year Compensation rules- "Certain players in the first few months of a new contract are subject to base year compensation (BYC). The intent of BYC is to prevent teams from re-signing players to salaries specifically targeted to match other salaries in a trade (in other words, salary should be based on basketball value, not trade value). A BYC player's trade value as outgoing salary is 50% of his new salary, or his previous salary, whichever is greater. BYC applies only to players who re-sign with their previous team and receive a raise greater than 20%. It also applies only when (and as long as) the team is over the salary cap."

In other words, his contract counts even less.

They need to get up to at least like $15 mil to make it work, and that doesn't count Kobe's trade-kicker (not sure if that counts on the cap or not). That means that unless Kirk (actually he's still a base year compensation guy as well) or Wallace are included, it's going to take at least 4 non-minimum guys just to match Kobe's salary.

[Balta1701-B]

They need to get up to at least like $15 mil to make it work, and that doesn't count Kobe's trade-kicker (not sure if that counts on the cap or not). That means that unless Kirk (actually he's still a base year compensation guy as well) or Wallace are included, it's going to take at least 4 non-minimum guys just to match Kobe's salary.

No, Kobe's trade-kicker does not count against the salary cap rules.

[sport1016]

why would kirk still be a BYC player now?

He was last year, but now he should be in the first year of his extension at 9 million or whatever it is.

[ZoomSlowik]

why would kirk still be a BYC player now?

He was last year, but now he should be in the first year of his extension at 9 million or whatever it is.

Last year he was still on the final year of his rookie deal with a large extension pending, hence the poision pill provisions. This year he's a base year compensation player. The same thing would be the case with Gordon and Deng if we signed them before the season.