ESTIMATED Cavs team salaries - updated 10/6/2009:

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2008/09:
1. Wallace: 14,500,000
2. James: 14,410,581
3. Szczerbiak: 13,775,000
4. Ilgauskas: 10,841,615
5. Varejao: 5,784,480
6. M. Williams: 8,353,000
7. Pavlovic: 4,500,000
8. Gibson: 3,700,000
9. Hickson: 1,329,480
10. Tarence Kinsey: 797,581
11. West: 3,850,000
12. Jackson: 450,000
13. Lorenzen Wright: 797,581
14.Joe Smith: 1,200,000

15. J. Williams: 354,866

Total: 83,508,952

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Salary Cap (actual): 58,680,000
Luxury Tax Limit (actual): 71,150,000
MLE (actual): 5,585,000
BAE (actual): 1,910,000

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2009/10
1. Shaq: 21,000,000
2. LeBron: 15,779,913
3. Ilgauskas: 11,541,074
4. Gibson: 4,088,500
5. JJ Hickson: 1,429,200
6. Mo Williams: 8,860,000
7. Delonte West: 4,254,250
8. Anderson Varejao: 6.300,000 (estimated)
9. Anthony Parker: 2,644,230 (estimated)
10. Jamario Moon: 2,750,000 (estimated)
11. Darnell Jackson: 736,420 (not guaranteed)
12. Danny Green: 457,588 (estimated)

13. Jawad Williams: 736,420 (not fully guaranteed)

14. Leon Powe: 855,189 (estimated)

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Total: 78,088,554

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Salary Cap (actual): 57,700,000
Luxury Tax Limit (actual): 69,920,000
MLE (actual): 5,854,000
BAE (actual): 1,990,000
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2010/11
1. LeBron: 15,120,000 (estimated cap hold - 30% of the salary cap)
2. Gibson: 4,015,334
3. Delonte West: 4,500,000 (guaranteed for only 500,000 if waived)
4. JJ Hickson: 1,528,920 (team option)
5. Darnell Jackson: 854,389 (Not guaranteed)
6. Mo Williams: 9,300,000
7. Anderson Varejao: 7,000,000 (estimated)
8. Anthony Parker: 2,855,770 (estimated)
9. Jamario Moon: 2,970,000 (estimated)
10. Danny Green: 762,195 (estimated)
11. 2010 first round pick: 1,020,960 (pick #30)
12. Powe: 915,852 (team option)
13. ????
14. ????
15. ????

Total: 50,043,420

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Salary Cap (estimated): 50,400,000
Luxury Tax Limit (estimated): 63,000,000
MLE (estimated): 5,500,000

BAE (actual): 2,080,000>>

Ok Golfer I got a question for you to think about. I here alot of people maybe not on these boards but on the old ones that want Zach Randoloph. I am not one of those people I think if we do make a deal make sure that players contract ends by the 2010 season so we can make a major play to get someone like Wade, Amare or Bosh. What do you think?

Zach's contract runs until 2011 - if we traded one of our expiring contracts (Wally or Ben) for him so that we had him for the next 3 years, would that be "enough" for us to win a ring?  Probably not - so that would not be a "good" move.

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Say we traded Wally for Vince Carter and Ben for Zach Randolph - would that be "enough" to win a ring?  That would be an interesting team:

PG: Mo Williams

SG: Vince Carter

SF: LeBron

PF: Zach Randolph

C: Ilgauskas

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That being said, I agree that we should not trade for any players with contracts that extend beyond summer 2010.

Can't we sign a new player in 2010 before re-signing LeBron.  Because his contract wouldn't count against our team salary at that point, and we could still re-sign him to a maximum contract.  I think this works so we don't have to worry about LeBron's salary in 2010/2011, but I might be wrong.  Correct me if I am.

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His salary would not count, but his cap hold would:

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14.  Exactly what is included when computing
total team salaries?

When determining team salaries (for example, to determine whether a
team is over the salary cap), the following are included:

• Salaries of all active and inactive players,
  including likely bonuses.
  
  
• Salaries
  paid or payable to waived players, minus
  any set-off amounts (see
  question number 55).
  
  
• Any salary still being paid to retired players (see question
  number 53).
  
  
• Amounts paid or expected to be paid in conjunction with certain
  grievances.
  



• Salaries in contracts that have been agreed to but not yet
  executed (i.e., verbal agreements or agreements pending
  physicals).  Note: During the July Moratorium (see question number
      90), teams may not enter into verbal or written
  agreements.  Therefore any agreements that are stuck during the
  moratorium are still characterized as negotiations, and do not count as
  team salary.
  
  
• A percentage of the previous salary of unrenounced free agents
  (see question number 30) - (CAP HOLD)

• Salaries offered in offer sheets (see question number 36).
  
  
• The "scale" amount for the team's unsigned first-round draft
  pick(s) (see question number 43).  This
  amount begins applying to the team's team salary immediately upon
  selection in the draft.  However, this is not the same as his
  trade value
  (see question number 71).
  
  
• A roster charge if the team has fewer than 12 players (players
  under contract, free agents included in team salary, players given
  offer sheets, and first round draft picks).  The roster charge is
  equal to the rookie minimum salary for each player below 12.  The
  roster charge only applies during the offseason.
  



• The combined amount of any Mid-Level, Bi-Annual, Disabled Player
  (see question number 19) or Traded Player
  exceptions (see question number 69) available to
  the team (see question number 20), if the team is
  under the
  salary cap.  (Teams may renounce these exceptions, in which case
  they no longer are included in team salary.)
  

If a team completes a mid-season trade, then the entire season salaries
of any players they acquire are included in their
team salary, and the entire season salaries of any players they trade
away are removed from their books.

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LeBron's cap hold would be his maximum possible salary - about $20 million - and that cap hold would be included in our team salary (for purposes of determining our cap space).

I think that someone will eventually be lured to Cleveland by LeBron being here. There have been so many reports about teams not wanting to trade with us because they are scared of how good we will be if LeBron ever has help. With this being the case, I think our best option to pick up a star or almost-start player is in free agency. Now Cleveland might not be a huge city or NBA market, but lets be honest. There has to be someone that wants a ring bad enough that they would come to Cleveland. The city isn't that bad, and it's not like these guys are ever home anyways. They are home when they are in town and for a little while during the offseason. Otherwise, they are on the road for games or taking a family vacation.

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