Lavar has been misused...

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by #56fanatic

You are right as well. As in the post I had w/ Matty I said I heard he was willing to take a substantial pay cut. Now, if thats true and he renegotiates the deal with the roster bonus to where his cap number is managable or less than the original deal, then we should keep him. If he falls back on his statement where he doesn't want to redo the deal, then we have to look at dealing him or just letting him go. That of course is if we can trim enough dough to take the big hit. As Matty said, we found a way w/ the Coles deal, maybe we can find another way with LaVar.

I'm not quite clear on what you're saying. His base salary for 2006 is already at the vet minimum, so there's nothing we can do with his base salary. He's due $6.5 million as a roster bonus this year. Are you saying he might be willing to cut the $6.5 million payment down, and then change the remainder of it to a signing bonus? If he wants to cut it down low enough before renegotiating it, then that would be great. Can we see him doing that though? Because he thought he was getting $12 million instead of $6.5, until he realized that his agent let him down. To get even less than $6.5 this year would seem to be something he'd like to avoid. Who knows though.

In the case of cutting or trading him, I think even if the CBA is extended there's no way in the world we'd be able to absorb a $12 million hit from him. It would be hard to clear that much room. We would release/trade him after June 1 and take a $5 million hit this year and a $7 million hit in 2007 (assuming the CBA is extended).

If the CBA is not extended we're stuck with him no matter what, so hopefully we can renegotiate in that scenario.