http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/414...;53135_million/

Interesting....

Anyone have a firm number of where the Bulls actually stand now?

Ben Gordon $3,862,080
Kirk Hinrich $3,064,916
Nocioni $3,030,000
Chris Duhon $3,024,000
Sweetney $2,696,956
Luol Deng $2,614,440
Malik Allen $1,803,600
Khryapa $1,172,400
Eddie Basden$ 664,209
P.J. Brown $8,000,000
J.R. Smith $1,067,400
Ben Wallace $15,000,000 ? Unless front loaded which I am sure it will be.
Tyrus $2,606,200
Sefolosha $1,349,400

TOTALS = $49,955,601 (assuming we pay Wallace $15 million in year 1.)

Unless the Bulls decide to keep just 14 players this would be their salary right now meaning they have about $3,179,399 remaining. That plus P.J. Brown's $8 million, Malik Allens $1.8 million, Eddie Basden's $664,000 means next year the Bulls will have about $13,643,400 (rounded estimates) to resign players or go after free agents. And that doesn't include any amount that the cap room increases by which has been roughly $4-5 million a year the last few years.

This article says that Wallace's starting salary will likely be $14 million.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2508742
http://www.hoopshype.com/salaries/chicago.htm
http://www.hoopshype.com/salaries/new_orleans.htm
http://www.hoopshype.com/draft.htm

Cool. Thanks. The thing that strikes me is outside of PJ Brown, the Bulls don't have many tradable salaries to make a deal for a guy like Chris Wilcox, without throwing multiple young players up there.

That is why I think we should trade 2 or more players. Sweetney, J.R. Smith, and Khryapa come to mind. If you add them together you get roughly $5.0 million. $5 million plus the $3.2 million we have free means we can sign him at about $8.2 million per year. But I would like it if we could get him for about $7 million and still keep Smith.

Maybe deal Duhon, Sweetney and Khryapa. (Roughly $7 million)

Yeah, that way we could keep jr smith and maybe add a.miles

That's what I'm talking about. Replace Duhon at $3 million with miles at maybe $600,000. (actually $412,718)

http://www.insidehoops.com/minimum-nba-salary.shtml

edwin, i dont think wilcox is coming to chicago...

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