According to this site:
Spotrac Salary Cap Tracker, we are sitting at a little over 44m in salaries for the upcoming season. The minimum cap number is 56m. I'm no capologist, but we still need 12 million to get up to just the minimum. Interesting that it's the exact number that we have offered to Bledsoe.
That said, this obviously means we can take back more than what we send out--but there are a couple factors to figure in here:
1) We already have 14 players on guaranteed contracts, so if Bledsoe goes, we may have to look at packaging someone else with him, because if this happens, we quite possibly will get more than 1 physical asset in return.
2) The front office will look at how this affects us going forward, especially when trying to take into account a max or near-max contract for Dragic next summer.
3) Throw in the "negotiations" for Zoran, and even if this rumor is true, there is a lot of complications that need to be worked out.
Wish we knew who Jude LaCava's "sources" are. Does he have a good track record? Seeing as I'm no longer living in Arizona, I don't know. Some of these guys post "rumors" that are so vague that even if they didn't know anything, the wording makes them look like they are Nostradamus.
