Let me make this real simple for you: The Bobcats just purchased a first-round draft pick with money they had to spend anyway.
The headlines will say that Ben Gordon was traded for Corey Maggette,
but pay no mind; they're just contracts in this deal. They're not bad
players necessarily, but they're roughly equivalent talents with
oversized contracts on teams going nowhere.
The real action comes
through the draft pick and the money changing hands. Charlotte now has a
potential lottery pick in 2014 or 2015, and the cost is the difference
in salary (about $14 million). Normally, that would be an excessive
price to pay, but these aren't normal times. The Bobcats may not hit the
league's salary floor in 2013-14, let alone the cap, so the $13.2
million that Gordon adds to their payroll in that season doesn't stand
to hurt them much since they needed to add a bunch of salary anyway. In
that sense, they really paid far less than $14 million for the draft
pick.
From Detroit's perspective, this deal was a no-brainer. The
Pistons dump $13.2 million from their 2013-14 payroll, since Maggette's
contract expires in 2012-13, retain their amnesty clause to use on Charlie Villanueva
(instead of maybe Gordon) and now stand to be as much as $20 million
under the cap that summer, depending on what moves they make between now
and then.
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