ESPN: Sam Hinkie to re-acquire former Rockets star Hasheem Thabeet

tiger0330 · Aug 27, 2014

I see the 76ers gave the Thunder a protected 2nd round pick for Thabeet. Why even do this trade if Hinkie had no interest in giving Thabeet a look even if it only cost them a low second round pick that the Thunder might never get?

ThatBoyNick · Aug 27, 2014

tiger0330 said: ↑

I see the 76ers gave the Thunder a protected 2nd round pick for Thabeet. Why even do this trade if Hinkie had no interest in giving Thabeet a look even if it only cost them a low second round pick that the Thunder might never get?
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Hinkie's making friends with Presti, all that ass kissing will pay off the deadline before Durant hits free agency.

CCorn · Aug 27, 2014

tiger0330 said: ↑

I see the 76ers gave the Thunder a protected 2nd round pick for Thabeet. Why even do this trade if Hinkie had no interest in giving Thabeet a look even if it only cost them a low second round pick that the Thunder might never get?
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They need contracts on the books to hit the salary floor?

RoxBeliever · Aug 27, 2014

boy, Hinkie has really turned tanking into an art form. "So NBA changed the lottery rules. I'll just try harder to lose." LOL

I imagine this is what Morey's moves would have been like if Les allowed him to tank. Glad he didn't.

withmustard · Aug 28, 2014

tiger0330 said: ↑

I see the 76ers gave the Thunder a protected 2nd round pick for Thabeet. Why even do this trade if Hinkie had no interest in giving Thabeet a look even if it only cost them a low second round pick that the Thunder might never get?
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I'm not sure, but there is a good chance that the protection is so strong on the pick that it will never be conveyed. For example, OKC gets the pick only if it 55-60, which means Phi would have to be a top 5 team next season.

tiger0330 · Aug 29, 2014

CCorn said: ↑

They need contracts on the books to hit the salary floor?
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That's probably the reason but they don't have Embiid this year and they even gave Royce White a look. Why not give the guy at least a look when the Thunder are paying his salary.

Exiled · Aug 29, 2014

Thabeet is a great bench player, he is the 1st guy to cheer Durant coming from a timeout

craguin · Aug 29, 2014

CCorn said: ↑

They need contracts on the books to hit the salary floor?
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Steve Kyler: The Myth of The Minimum Team Salary

The NBA Collective Barging Agreement requires all teams to spend at least 90 percent of the salary cap. This season the NBA salary cap was set at $63.065 million, with the luxury tax set at $76.829 million. The NBA minimum team salary is $56.759 million.

This becomes materially relevant to the Philadelphia 76ers ($39.988 million), Milwaukee Bucks ($56.357 million) and Phoenix Suns ($51.834 million).

As of today, all three franchise are under the so called “floor.” The Suns likely get above it when they sign Eric Bledsoe and the Bucks likely get above it at some point before the trade deadline.

The one that creates the most conversation is the 76ers because they are roughly $16.777 million under the “floor.”

In previous Collective Bargaining Agreements, teams had to really spend that amount of money. However, under the current agreement, team salary is calculated on what’s on the roster at the end of the year, meaning the 76ers can and likely will run on the lean side for as long as they can.

It is simple economics. Why pay out more cash than necessary to field the team? The plan is to keep the flexibility open for teams over the luxury tax that may want to dump a salary at the deadline, when Philadelphia can extract assets for having the space.

What happens if the 76ers don’t meet the minimum at the trade deadline? They would be required to pay their existing roster the shortfall on a schedule agreed to by the Players’ Association.

So if the 76ers don’t meet the minimum, their existing guys get bonuses and the team gets to defer paying it until the end of the season.

What’s far more likely is that the long rumored Amar’e Stoudemire to Philadelphia deal gets done at the deadline. The Sixers take on Stoudemire’s $23 million salary cap number, which pushes them way over the minimum. They would only owe him roughly 30 percent of his remaining contract, so they’d end up paying him $7 million in cash and likely extract a draft pick or a rookie scale player for their troubles.

Flexibility in the NBA is currency – both figuratively and literally. The 76ers will likely meet the floor; they just are not incentivized in any way to do it before the trade deadline.
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dharocks · Aug 29, 2014

Opportunity for jopatmc to triple down on Thabeet

Liberon · Aug 29, 2014

Bandwagoner said: ↑

Hasheem "The Dream" Thabeet

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original sounds better imo...

Aleron · Aug 29, 2014

craguin said: ↑

Steve Kyler: The Myth of The Minimum Team Salary
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that's not how the floor works

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