Stackhouse opens his big mouth

As smart as Cuban is, you'd think he'd have the common sense to keep his people quiet about this sort of thing. His history with the league office is also not doing him any favors here.
 
I understand that doing this would be against league rules/ policy, but why does this policy exist?

If Stackhouse wants to spurn other offers for 30 days to come back to the Mavericks, then why should he be prevented from doing so? It's not like the Mavericks can prevent other teams from making an offer to Stackhouse. It's up to other teams to be both an attractive enough team (i.e. team with a chance at going deep in the playoffs) and to pony up enough dollars to be interesting. This policy just reeks of the era when teams held all the cards over players.

Frankly, the rules requiring the salaries to be within x% of each other do not make much sense either, which is why this scenario is popping up to begin with. The rules about salary caps are in place already. That will tend to force teams to make trades for similar salaries or have to pay a big fine.
 
the reason rules like this exist is because we don't know what Stackhouse was promised to wait 30 days. Technicially I think it would fall under tampering and is very similar to Minnesota's deal with Joe Smith several years ago.

Rules about the money having to be equal are designed to try and have 32 competitive teams, it is a necessary evil.
 
Stackhouse opens his mouth and says, are you crazy mother ... you are tradin me for that!!!!!!!

Maybe if Stack started blowing kisses during the game to HIS punching bag he might be able to stay.
 
Roger,

I agree that it is easy to see parallels with the Joe Smith fiasco, but there are a lot of key differences between this and the Joe Smith deal. The Joe Smith deal was done to circumvent the salary cap.

However, it's not clear to me how the Mavericks could do this with Stackhouse. I assume that they must have their mid level exception left since otherwise Stackhouse would have to return for the league minimum considering the Mavericks are way over the salary cap.

As for league parity, I can agree with the desire to avoid a NY Yankees scenario, but this is the purpose of the luxury tax. This year the luxury tax appears to finally be keeping team payrolls in check. The Mavericks payroll is $93M, but $18.5M of that is excluded due to the amnesty provision for Finley. So they are paying out an extra ~$7M in tax. In fact Cuban has stated that he is not crazy about having to pay an extra $4M in luxury taxes.

www.star-telegram.com/287/story/475741.html
 
I agree with Tony Kornheiser. If Stackhouse wants to do this then he should be allowed to do it. Plus, the Nets have agreed to pay off his contract - they are definitely paying something to make the trade work.

I know the Cuban bashers can only see this as him doing something underhanded, but it is the way NBA trades are made these days. Unwanted players are traded and then dropped to meet Salary Cap Requirements.

And, if I were paying the Luxury Tax you'd better believe I'm looking for ways to keep from increasing my payroll.

Hook'em!!!
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Mitch,

I will be the first to admit that I do not understand the intricacies of NBA salary cap calculations, but wouldn't the Nets have to pay Van Horn's salary. The Star Telegram article I linked to previously indicated that the yearly adjusted salary would apply to the trade but he would only be paid a pro-rated salary. I would expect that the pro-rated salary would be paid by the Nets since the Mavs would already paying the $3M cash option to the Nets.
 
Without knowing anything about you Homerwight, I'd say that Stackhouse, with all his money endowed to him by the NBA, has done more for the humanity of people in the United States than all the people combined on this thread.

Hook'em!!!
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