This one is a no-brainer. Felicio has done little to prove he has a place in the NBA. The Bulls are well below the tax and are unlikely to have significant cap space unless Otto Porter opts out and leaves this summer. If they do amnesty him, it would mostly be a favor to him if he wishes to play elsewhere.
This one is tough because Tim Hardaway Jr. As long as that player was under contract before the first season the amnesty clause was implemented, such players can always be amnestied later. This would make Dwight Powell an amnesty candidate down the road. If he cannot come back to form from his Achilles injury, perhaps the Mavericks could amnesty him in or After giving Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray maximum extensions, the Nuggets are capped out for the foreseeable future. Maybe down the line if Gary Harris or Will Barton regress significantly, it could be an option.
Unless something goes horribly wrong with one of their four highest-earning players in the next few years, the Warriors will gladly pay a steep luxury tax bill to keep them. They may not even end up having to use it years from now. With him out of the picture, Dieng is the next obvious candidate. The Heat might end up actually operating over the salary cap so they can re-sign Goran Dragic and Jae Crowder with their Bird rights.
If Giannis Antetokounmpo were to leave, using it on someone like George Hill in a year or two makes sense to help expedite the rebuild.
Re-signing Malik Beasley and Juancho Hernangomez , as well as signing their lottery pick and using the mid-level exception could push them over the luxury tax next season. Using the amnesty clause on Johnson serves as an easy fix for that, and surely they can replace him with someone just as productive for much less money. They might be the least likely team to use the amnesty clause on any of their players.
The only player that makes sense is Muscala. Terrence Ross and Al-Farouq Aminu are two considerations a year or two from now if they regress and the Magic need more flexibility. That means a percentage of the player's new salary will go back to the team that released him. Q: Can a team that doesn't have a payroll exceeding the luxury-tax threshold exercise the amnesty option? Even if a team isn't on course to pay luxury tax after the season, it can elect to make an amnesty waiver if it anticipates a tax-paying situation down the road.
A team could determine that a amnesty move now would save money later, but the decision has to be made this month with the amnesty option only available through Aug. Q: Why was this rule adopted and what are teams really gaining if releasing an amnesty player results in no cap relief and doesn't stop the player from collecting all of his checks? A: Taxpaying teams have long complained that the NBA's financial system offers no mechanism for teams to undo or recover from a contract mistake.
This is a one-time chance for teams to at least free themselves of the tax consequences of what is deemed a bad contract.
Sources indicate that some of the league's smaller-market and more fiscally responsible teams fought the implementation of the amnesty clause, arguing that the league's big spenders already have big advantages when it comes to player acquisition. Those appeals were denied.
Q: New York's Allan Houston has been mentioned so frequently as an amnesty candidate since June that some refer to this clause as the "Allan Houston Rule. A: Houston has a close relationship with Knicks owner James Dolan and, according to NBA front-office sources, has convinced Dolan that he plans to retire if his arthritic knees prove unstable in training camp this October.
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