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Charlotte could amnesty Diop tomorrow

carolinaAl

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$26 million is way to much to pay to amnesty someone.

Usually you only amnesty players for cap room and that is something the Cats don't really need right now unless they plan on acquiring Kris Humphries and need extra cash to make it happen.

Regardless, I am assuming that Stein just went through teams rosters and picked out guys who he thought would be good amnesty candidates.

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for what its worth, rick bonnell mentioned this on a radio interview on wfnz today. i imagine that is where stein is getting this from

Thanks for the heads up, wasn't sure if Stein just went through teams rosters and picked out players that looked like good amnesty candidates or if he actually has inside info.

Bonnell is fairly accurate, so I would say there is a 75% chance that Diop gets amnesty.

Everyone say goodbye to the resident dinosaur.

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$26 million is way to much to pay to amnesty someone.

Usually you only amnesty players for cap room and that is something the Cats don't really need right now unless they plan on acquiring Kris Humphries and need extra cash to make it happen.

Regardless, I am assuming that Stein just went through teams rosters and picked out guys who he thought would be good amnesty candidates.

I don't think we should amnesty either one this year. We don't need the money. What we should do is wait until we need the cap room to use it. Thomas is scheduled to make 9.4 million in 2014 when we might actually have a chance at signing a good player in free agency.

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So, if I understand the amnesty rules correctly, you amnesty the player, their salary comes off your cap, there is a blind auction for the player by all other teams, and the auction winner gets the player for the salary they bid and the Bobcats would have to pay him the difference on the remainder of his contract?

So Diop is owed 7.3 million for this season - I guess we will end up paying about 7.28 million, cause nobody is gonna bid jack for him.

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So, if I understand the amnesty rules correctly, you amnesty the player, their salary comes off your cap, there is a blind auction for the player by all other teams, and the auction winner gets the player for the salary they bid and the Bobcats would have to pay him the difference on the remainder of his contract?

So Diop is owed 7.3 million for this season - I guess we will end up paying about 7.28 million, cause nobody is gonna bid jack for him.

You're correct, the only reason to amnesty Diop is to free up more cap space so that we can throw more money at Landry or Humphries; otherwise this would be a dumb move (being that he is already in the last year of his contract) when they could just use the cap space (in a pretty good free agent class) next year and not have to pay him anything.

If the Cats amnesty Diop, they will have two roster spots to fill rather than one.

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