Hornets Acquire Ridnour for Barnes

[nctarheel0619]

 

[Lemory]

At least the Hornets have some interesting news going on.

[yasuhara2241]

So are we going to flip him for Lamb because OKC would prefer a non guarantee opposed to Barnes and his $1m buyout? Or do we just save the cap space and cut him? 

 

[Nate Dogg]

So confused. Does this mean Lamb is not coming to Charlotte?

[CCU Norman]

Which means terrible reporting from bonell. So no Jeremy lamb I guess

[TylerDurden]

Lol,  yall can say what you want about Cho.   This guy is the most interesting man in the world every June.   This is awesome. 

II wonder if we get in the Cousins sweepstakes?

[Chaos]

I'm so lost on all these transactions. I hope we're not keeping Riddnour, who was just traded to Memphis yesterday for fugs sake.

[cbarrier90]

I'm so lost on all these transactions. I hope we're not keeping Riddnour, who was just traded to Memphis yesterday for fugs sake.

We made this trade because the Barnes deal is guaranteed, Luke isn't, so he'll be released unless he gets moved to OKC for Lamb and cut there.

Remember the report was that we would acquire Lamb via Barnes but Barnes would not be going to OKC. That could mean OKC is moving Lamb for Ridnour since Lamb is a salary dump and they can cut Luke instead.

[ENC Pantherfan]

We made this trade because the Barnes deal is guaranteed, Luke isn't, so he'll be released unless he gets moved to OKC for Lamb and cut there.

Remember the report was that we would acquire Lamb via Barnes but Barnes would not be going to OKC. That could mean OKC is moving Lamb for Ridnour since Lamb is a salary dump and they can cut Luke instead.

I think reading that just made my brain hurt

[cbarrier90]

I think reading that just made my brain hurt

Not that difficult.

NBA has guaranteed and unguaranteed contracts. Guaranteed means if you cut them it costs you. I believe Barnes hit was about a million dollars. He was guaranteed. Ridnour deal is not so you can cut him for free.

In this scenario, we were never going to keep Barnes but we didn't want to pay to cut him. So we found an unguaranteed contract in Ridnour and swapped with Memphis, who wants to keep Barnes.

Now in OKC the same scenario with Lamb. They need money to pay other guys and don't want to pay to release Lamb. So they will probably get the Ridnour contract and we will swap picks with them because we get the far better player in the deal.

[Manos]

I really hope we don't swap picks. We are doing them a favor by saving them money, we shouldn't have to give up draft position to do that. Especially considering Lamb hasn't done anything in the NBA.

[YoungPanthers89]

Watching  Ridnour play basketball makes me want to vomit 

[RoaringRiot]

Good info - makes sense. Although I agree about not moving back to essentially do OKC a favor. 

[Nate Dogg]

If we are falling to 14 that really stinks. I wanted Booker. We need shooting.