Larry Coon @LarryCoon
So let's do some math. Suppose Houston dumps Lin & Asik with $0 coming back. They renounce Daniels, Garcia & Hamilton. They waive Casspi
Larry Coon @LarryCoon
...Beverley, Covington & Powell. They keep QO to Parsons & Capela's draft rights. They have Dwight, Harden, Jones, Motiejunas & Canaan.
Larry Coon @LarryCoon
..With that configuration, they can give Bosh $16,427,992. Pretty short of his $20,644,400 max.
Larry Coon @LarryCoon
So let's renounce Capela & Parsons. Cap room rises to $19,279,451. STILL short of a max offer, and they don't have rights to Parsons.
Larry Coon @LarryCoon
To keep Parsons' rights & still sign Bosh to max, they have to dump another $3,732,744 in guaranteed salary. That's Jones AND Motiejunas.
Larry Coon @LarryCoon
So to get Bosh at max AND keep Parsons, Daryl Morey just needs to dump Asik, Lin, Jones AND Motiejunas with no salary coming he other way,
Larry Coon @LarryCoon
...along with throwing overboard everything that's not bolted down.
Thought you guys might find that exercise interesting.
They already moved Asik to the Pelicans... so all they really have to do is just dump Lin on a team with cap space like Philly... and they will give up Jones/Monte as the bonus for taking on Lin's expiring contract.
Not much different from the Boston deal today where we got Zeller and a 1st for taking on Thornton's contract. In-fact, I bet Danny would have taken on Lin, but he was probably nervous about waiting... since the TPE expires on Saturday. Also, from a financial perspective, Lin's cap hit is about the same as Thornton's, but the team that takes on Lin actually has to pay him a lot more money due to his whacky contract.
So you'll see a team like Suns, Philly or Utah take on Lin + Monte + Jones.
In-fact, my guess is that the Lakers are the team that take on the contracts. They could certainly use Lin + jones.
Edit: Actually according to Philly's blog, it will be Lin + a 1st to Philly. http://www.libertyballers.com/2014/7/9/5885973/sixers-rockets-jeremy-lin-trade-chris-bosh
Miami isn't offering Bosh the max currently, so my guess is that Houston isn't offering quite the max either. I'd still imagine they need to send at least Donatas and Jones somewhere, however, and you'd have to believe Beverly has too much value to be waived for nothing. Capela is already under contract in Europe, so his cap hold goes away without the Rockets renouncing him.
We can fit either Donatas or Jones under the Courtney Lee TPE -- I think Jones will be the more expensive of the two. Donatas for a 2nd round pick? Maybe Miami's in 2016?
Also, I love Larry Coon, and I will probably be struck by lightning for questioning him, but I think he's got some numbers wrong. Someone please correct me as needed. Salary numbers taken from shamsports (since virtually all of Houston's players were signed to max deals, minimum deals, or are on rookie contracts, these numbers are likely 100% accurate, since you can just calculate them from the CBA.)
Salary cap: $63.065 million. They renounce all free agents except Parsons, keep Beverly, release all their other non-guaranteed contracts, and Capela stays in France so doesn't count against the cap:
Dwight Howard -- $21,436,271
James Harden -- $14,728,844
Terrence Jones -- $1,618,860
Donatas Motiejunas - $1,483,920
Isaiah Canaan - $816,482
Patrick Beverly - $915,243
Chandler Parsons (cap hold) - $1,760,350
4 cap holds for empty roster spots - $507,336 each
This leaves $18,275,686 for Bosh in year 1. This is below the max, but it's a bit more than Coon gets to. If they dump Donatas, they're up to $19,252,270. If they dump Jones and Canaan as well, they're at the max for Bosh, with a roster of Beverly, Harden, Parsons, Bosh, and Howard. They fill it out with the the room exception and minimum contracts. True definition of a stars and scrubs roster.
If they dump Motiejunas and Canaan, and keep Beverly, pretty much the Rockets get to choose between keeping Jones or keeping Parsons. Parsons is more expensive, but I think he makes more sense to a roster with Chris Bosh.