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According to Hollinger......
http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/play...?columnist=hollinger_john&page=PERDiem-100422
The new salary-cap number is already a game-changer
Want to know why Portland could extend Marcus Camby? As I mentioned a couple days ago, the revised salary-cap guidance released by the league at this past weekend's Board of Governors meeting meant the Blazers could add Camby to next year's payroll while staying under the luxury tax.
Want to know why the Blazers felt they had to extend Camby's deal? Same reason. With the new cap guidance and increased flexibility it provided, Portland felt teams like New York, Oklahoma City, Miami and the Clippers all were poised to make a run at Camby. With Joel Przybilla and Greg Oden both question markets because of health, and with Przybilla's expiring contract offering a valuable trade commodity next year, Portland felt it couldn't go wrong by locking up Camby early and keeping him off the market.
Suffice it to say this phenomenon is not limited to Portland. In the wake of last weekend's numbers, all 30 teams are recalibrating their free-agent strategies to accommodate for the fact there's a lot more money available -- both under the cap and under the tax -- than they'd originally envisioned.
http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/play...?columnist=hollinger_john&page=PERDiem-100422
The new salary-cap number is already a game-changer
Want to know why Portland could extend Marcus Camby? As I mentioned a couple days ago, the revised salary-cap guidance released by the league at this past weekend's Board of Governors meeting meant the Blazers could add Camby to next year's payroll while staying under the luxury tax.
Want to know why the Blazers felt they had to extend Camby's deal? Same reason. With the new cap guidance and increased flexibility it provided, Portland felt teams like New York, Oklahoma City, Miami and the Clippers all were poised to make a run at Camby. With Joel Przybilla and Greg Oden both question markets because of health, and with Przybilla's expiring contract offering a valuable trade commodity next year, Portland felt it couldn't go wrong by locking up Camby early and keeping him off the market.
Suffice it to say this phenomenon is not limited to Portland. In the wake of last weekend's numbers, all 30 teams are recalibrating their free-agent strategies to accommodate for the fact there's a lot more money available -- both under the cap and under the tax -- than they'd originally envisioned.
