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<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Although the Nets? salary structure is top-heavy with few players getting mid-range salaries, the Nets do have other, non-playing, assets they can use in trades to make deals work?as well as several expiring contracts. In fact, few teams have such a range of options.
None of the non-playing assets?draft picks, draft rights or cash?have any monetary value when working within salary cap restrictions, but they can help get a deal done. Thorn was able to trade for Vince Carter last December not because Eric Williams, Aaron Williams and Alonzo Mourning were considered Carter?s equal, but because the Nets had draft choices the Raptors thought could be useful in a rebuilding effort.
Here is a list of the non-playing assets available:
1. Nets? 2006 first-round pick.
2. Clippers? 2006 unprotected first-round pick. Nets could trade both picks or give a trading partner the choice of picks on draft night.
3. Nets? 2006 second-round pick . The 76ers have the option to exchange second round picks with Nets, part of the Marc Jackson deal.
4. Nets? 2007 first-round pick but NO second round pick that year, it having been dealt to Golden State in the Cliff Robinson deal. League rules prohibit teams from dealing away consecutive first round picks, but Nets could package the Clippers? 2006 pick with the Nets? 2007 pick.
5. All future Nets? first and second-round picks. Future first-round picks can be dealt with ?lottery protections?. The trading team in effect protects itself from disaster if it winds up in the lottery and having already dealt away a pick that could produce a star player.
6. Nets? draft rights to Mile Ilic.
7. Nets? draft rights to Christian Drejer.
8. Up to $3 million in cash to sweeten a deal. Nets received $3 million in cash from the 76ers, also in the Marc Jackson deal.
The other advantage the Nets have, in spite of their top heavy salary structure, is that most of the players they are likely to offer have short-term contracts. So a team wanting to dump a long-term contract might find the short-term contracts, with team or player options, a nice way to pick up salary cap space?as the Raptors did last year once they bought out Mourning.
The contracts of Marc Jackson, Jeff McInnis, Cliff Robinson, Linton Johnson, Lamond Murray and Scott Padgett are all one-year deals with second-year options, player options in the case of Jackson and McInnis, team options with the rest. Only Zoran Planinic has a two-year deal among those whose names have been mentioned in trade rumors. Antoine Wright has a guaranteed two-year rookie deal with a team option to pick up another two. </div>
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None of the non-playing assets?draft picks, draft rights or cash?have any monetary value when working within salary cap restrictions, but they can help get a deal done. Thorn was able to trade for Vince Carter last December not because Eric Williams, Aaron Williams and Alonzo Mourning were considered Carter?s equal, but because the Nets had draft choices the Raptors thought could be useful in a rebuilding effort.
Here is a list of the non-playing assets available:
1. Nets? 2006 first-round pick.
2. Clippers? 2006 unprotected first-round pick. Nets could trade both picks or give a trading partner the choice of picks on draft night.
3. Nets? 2006 second-round pick . The 76ers have the option to exchange second round picks with Nets, part of the Marc Jackson deal.
4. Nets? 2007 first-round pick but NO second round pick that year, it having been dealt to Golden State in the Cliff Robinson deal. League rules prohibit teams from dealing away consecutive first round picks, but Nets could package the Clippers? 2006 pick with the Nets? 2007 pick.
5. All future Nets? first and second-round picks. Future first-round picks can be dealt with ?lottery protections?. The trading team in effect protects itself from disaster if it winds up in the lottery and having already dealt away a pick that could produce a star player.
6. Nets? draft rights to Mile Ilic.
7. Nets? draft rights to Christian Drejer.
8. Up to $3 million in cash to sweeten a deal. Nets received $3 million in cash from the 76ers, also in the Marc Jackson deal.
The other advantage the Nets have, in spite of their top heavy salary structure, is that most of the players they are likely to offer have short-term contracts. So a team wanting to dump a long-term contract might find the short-term contracts, with team or player options, a nice way to pick up salary cap space?as the Raptors did last year once they bought out Mourning.
The contracts of Marc Jackson, Jeff McInnis, Cliff Robinson, Linton Johnson, Lamond Murray and Scott Padgett are all one-year deals with second-year options, player options in the case of Jackson and McInnis, team options with the rest. Only Zoran Planinic has a two-year deal among those whose names have been mentioned in trade rumors. Antoine Wright has a guaranteed two-year rookie deal with a team option to pick up another two. </div>
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