McDyess apparently will be a Spur or Piston
By Dan Feldman - 2:07 am | July 8th, 2009The Spurs are the frontrunners for Antonio McDyess, according to the San Antonio Express-News. Adrian Wojnarowki of Yahoo! Sports reports the same.
But there’s a good chance Antonio McDyess returns to the Pistons, according to Ken Berger of CBS Sports. Berger says its between Detroit and San Antonio.
The Express-News says McDyess’s offer from the Spurs is two years at the full mid-level exception with a third year partially guaranteed. That would mean his deal would start at $5.85 million.
The NBA announced today the salary cap is set at $57.7 million. By my count, that leaves the Pistons with nearly $4 million cap room.
| Player | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
| Richard Hamilton | $11,625,000 | $12,650,000 | $12,650,000 | $12,650,000 | $0 |
| Tayshaun Prince | $10,324,380 | $11,148,760 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Ben Gordon | $9,000,000 | $9,720,000 | $10,440,000 | $11,160,000 | $11,880,000 |
| Charlie Villanueva | $6,000,000 | $6,500,000 | $7,000,000 | $7,500,000 | $8,000,000 |
| Jason Maxiell | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | $0 |
| Kwame Brown | $4,100,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Rodney Stuckey | $1,805,040 | $2,767,126 | $3,868,442 | $0 | $0 |
| Fabricio Oberto | $1,800,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Austin Daye | $1,398,200 | $1,503,100 | $1,875,500 | $2,875,142 | $4,019,448 |
| Arron Afflalo | $1,086,240 | $1,959,577 | $2,906,053 | $0 | $0 |
| Will Bynum | $825,497 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Walter Sharpe | $736,420 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| TOTALS: | $53,700,777 | $51,248,563 | $43,739,995 | $39,185,142 | $23,899,448 |
Team Option, Qualify Offer, Player Option
So, the Spurs could make a fairly larger offer. And they obviously have a better shot at a title. Throw in his summer home in Houston, it makes sense for McDyess to leave.
But it’s clear he likes Detroit. And the Pistons would definitely benefit by his return. He’d help the team with his rebounding, mid-range shooting and defense. He’d also be a great mentor for younger players.
I’m hoping he stays. But the numbers don’t look promising.
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They need to try and dump the greatly overpaid Maxiell…both he and Brown are making too much…not to mention Tayshaun, but there’s no way they’ll dump him, unless they can pull off a crazy trade…
This salary cap analysis ignores the contracts of Summers and Jerebko. That’s another $800K – $1.0+ off our cap, depending of course on whether Jerebko makes it over this year, which it seems likely he will.
The Pistons can use their cap space this year, and then sign Summers and Jerebko. So they don’t hurt Detroit’s chance of getting someone else.
Summers and Jerebko won’t have guaranteed contracts next year. So the only was they take up cap space in in the summer of 2010 is if they’re good.
well all this is and void since Dyess has signed with the spurs. We now have no legitmate center since sheed is headeed for boston, so the question is what will joe do to fill this void becuase Kwame Brown will not due.
I’m starting to like Kevin Sawyer’s idea of an undersized Brandon Bass playing center.
http://www.detroitbadboys.com/archives/2009-07-09/bring-me-the-head-of-brandon-bass/
What are the odds of us signing brandon bass and will he be good enough being undersized having to deal with the likes of shaquile o’neal, garnett and now rasheed wallace in the playoffs?