Pek Waived

[60WinTim]

But Thibs and Layden are so tight lipped -- nobody knows what this really means!

Thibs and Layden have media availability tomorrow morning, so maybe someone will learn something and report it to us poor souls...

[khans2k5 [enjin:6608728]]

It doesn't sound promising from Jon K that they got a medical retirement. He seems to think that's a long process to go through which may mean they didn't do it. I'm guessing they just waved him and will eat the cap this year when they have a bunch of space anyway and his deal was up after the season anyway. Gives us the roster spot.

[TeamRicky [enjin:6648771]]

I didn't hear John K, but I don't know why they couldn't still get salary cap relief if they could use it. Here's an old blurb about the process:

Albert Nahmad: Wolves can apply to have Nikola Pekovic's cap hits -- $12.1M for 2016-17, $11.6M for 2017-18 - excluded from team salary star[t]ing today. Pekovic salary exclusion would be granted if jointly-selected doctor rules injury career-ending or constitutes medically unacceptable risk. If the exclusion is granted, Wolves' 16-17 cap room increases to $24.8M, 17-18 max projected cap room increases to $37.1M (at $103M cap). Wolves are currently $3.3M below salary floor. Pekovic's salary will count toward the salary floor whether the exclusion is granted or not. If Pekovic doesn't play again, Wolves can be reimbursed $8.7M of his $12.1M salary for 2016-17 and $9.3M of his $11.6M salary for 2017-18

[Monster]

I wouldn't be surprised if him being "waived" is part of the retirement process. We will see soon enough.

[60WinTim]

I wouldn't be surprised if him being "waived" is part of the retirement process. We will see soon enough.

Could be. And waiving him now ought to free up the additional room in time for draft! :-D

[Q12543 [enjin:6621299]]

I wouldn't be surprised if him being "waived" is part of the retirement process. We will see soon enough.

Could be. And waiving him now ought to free up the additional room in time for draft! :-D

Let's hope so....Seems absurd that we can't get some relief here. He's probably already well into his second career by now as a Bond villain or LST's personal body guard. Sheesh!

[kurrdog53 [enjin:7013678]]

Throwing this out there without much thought or research...

Is there any value to eating Pek's salary and not getting the medical retirement? Meaning, isn't there a floor in terms of total salary that a team needs to spend? I know we could all come up with some players we would pay that might actually see the floor, but if we tie up $11-12m in Pek, could that be more beneficial to the team than signing someone to a long-term deal that might get in the way of the development of the younger players? I am wondering if they know they will be spending on KAT, Wigs and Zach soon and they do not want to bring in players to just fill salary. Am I off base on this?

[AbeVigodaLive]

Throwing this out there without much thought or research...

Is there any value to eating Pek's salary and not getting the medical retirement? Meaning, isn't there a floor in terms of total salary that a team needs to spend? I know we could all come up with some players we would pay that might actually see the floor, but if we tie up $11-12m in Pek, could that be more beneficial to the team than signing someone to a long-term deal that might get in the way of the development of the younger players? I am wondering if they know they will be spending on KAT, Wigs and Zach soon and they do not want to bring in players to just fill salary. Am I off base on this?

The Wolves are in any danger of going over the cap. And as noted, they actually have bigger concerns about meeting the salary cap floor.

I'll miss the big lug though. When healthy (and that meant 100% healthy) he was a productive, fun player.

[khans2k5 [enjin:6608728]]

Throwing this out there without much thought or research...

Is there any value to eating Pek's salary and not getting the medical retirement? Meaning, isn't there a floor in terms of total salary that a team needs to spend? I know we could all come up with some players we would pay that might actually see the floor, but if we tie up $11-12m in Pek, could that be more beneficial to the team than signing someone to a long-term deal that might get in the way of the development of the younger players? I am wondering if they know they will be spending on KAT, Wigs and Zach soon and they do not want to bring in players to just fill salary. Am I off base on this?

It does add value in terms of meeting the floor, but if this team doesn't add any other help other than our draft pick we are likely looking at the lottery again. I don't get saving cap space for guys on the team when we have bird rights. Once their extensions kick in all the cap space is gone and you have virtually the same team as now. Saving cap space doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't doesn't make us better. It just leaves us the same which is a waste of that asset when you have it.