Alonzo Gee to New Orleans???

[RaisingTheBar]

Sources say Cavs in midst of making moves to create extra cap space to give LeBron his max and close to dealing Alonzo Gee to New Orleans

— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) July 11, 2014

[hornetstime247]

Ughh Gee is literally a poor mans Aminu

[RaisingTheBar]

Ughh Gee is literally a poor mans Aminu

If Aminu could shoot.

[UNO Gracias]

I hope we are giving something up to take him on, or can we just dump him?

[TheDawg26]

I think he's sadly a bit of an upgrade!

[WhoDatPelican]

[greewe]

How would this work financially?

[RaisingTheBar]

How would this work financially?

Well I mean technically we have the cap room right now absorb him. But more moves would obviously need to be made before we could take on Asik's 8.3

[WhoDatPelican]

Alonzo Gee's contract is fully unguaranteed, so it could be going back out in the Asik deal.

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) July 11, 2014

^^kinda hope this is true.... Not thrilled with idea of Gee

[RaisingTheBar]

Alonzo Gee's contract is fully unguaranteed, so it could be going back out in the Asik deal.

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) July 11, 2014

[greewe]

Alonzo Gee's contract is fully unguaranteed, so it could be going back out in the Asik deal.

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) July 11, 2014

^^kinda hope this is true.... Not thrilled with idea of Gee

Trying to wrap my head around this. If we just absorb Gee, we lose MLE/BAE. Isn't the whole point of trading nonguaranteed guys for Asik so that we can maintain the MLE/BAE?

[RekeHavoc]

Gee Babbitt Ely might work for Asik. We give cleveland a {edited-veiled cursing} second rounder and then trade those three and I think it works.

[RaisingTheBar]

Gee Babbitt Ely might work for Asik. We give cleveland a {edited-veiled cursing} second rounder and then trade those three and I think it works.

Yeah I'm pretty sure it does but what happens to our MLE?

[AD23forMVP]

Gee Babbitt Ely might work for Asik. We give cleveland a {edited-veiled cursing} second rounder and then trade those three and I think it works.

Pretty sure we can't absorb Gee's salary.

[goat gorilla]

How would this work financially?

Obviously:

td, xp, td, xp, td + xp, td, repeat*

[Above the Rim]

Yeah I'm pretty sure it does but what happens to our MLE?

As long as you do the Asik trade using the 150% rule, you keep your MLE and Bi-Annual.

Gee + Ely + Babbitt gets you real close, but you still need to throw in a few hundred grand. Ajinca?

[greewe]

Gee for Ely/Babbitt works. We could take back $3,546,839 in salary via 150%+$100K. Could be Dell turning a $2.3M of unguaranteed into $3.25M of unguaranteed.

[Above the Rim]

Pretty sure we can't absorb Gee's salary.

Gee was reportedly going to be traded for B. Haywood (Hornets). Maybe the Pels are giving Charlotte Rivers, we get Gee, and make the deal. All I can think of.

[ohnosono]

Gee is a hornet.

[Above the Rim]

Pretty sure we can't absorb Gee's salary.

Gee was reportedly going to be traded for B. Haywood (Hornets). Maybe the Pels are giving Charlotte Rivers, we get Gee, and make the deal. All I can think of.

[RaisingTheBar]

For those asking: I'm told Alonzo Gee will indeed wind up in New Orleans and Brendan Haywood deal with Charlotte is a separate deal for Cavs

— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) July 11, 2014

[greewe]

As long as you do the Asik trade using the 150% rule, you keep your MLE and Bi-Annual.

Gee + Ely + Babbitt gets you real close, but you still need to throw in a few hundred grand. Ajinca?

But how would we get Gee? If we absorb him into cap space, we lose MLE/BAE.

[Above the Rim]

Cavs have a few other non guaranteed deals. Can't wait to see how this plays out. Wish MM were here or on Twitter!

[RekeHavoc]

Maybe we give Charlotte Ajinca and then we also get another unguaranteed from Cavs and trade it to Houston to complete the deal.

[Above the Rim]

But how would we get Gee? If we absorb him into cap space, we lose MLE/BAE.

I would do that to keep Rivers though with how prices are in FA