Charlotte could amnesty Diop tomorrow

[carolinaAl]

ESPNSteinLine Marc Stein

Charlotte could amnesty Diop tomorrow.

Wonder how much this frees up and what they plan to do with it?

[carolina-chuck]

DO IT!!!

I dnt care how much it frees us up. I jst don't wanna see a dude that big that cant beat my grandma one on one.

Keep Thomas and amnesty Diop.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

This would be an excellent move, if it were done sooner.

It doesn't make much sense, unless they plan on using that extra cap space to make a harder run at a guy like Humphries.

I think this may just be speculation on Steins part.

[d-run]

Diop - 1 yr / 7.3 million

Thomas 3 yr / 26 million

We don't need the extra cap money this year. Hopefully we will need it in the future.

[thatlookseasy]

Why? Poor timing IMO, wait until we need the cap space then use it. Diop is already an expiring contract, I would rather see it used on Ty Thomas next offseason

[rico6]

Don't see the point in this, Diop is an asset with his 1-year deal. Would MUCH rather amnesty Virus Thomas

[Man Strength]

for what its worth, rick bonnell mentioned this on a radio interview on wfnz today. i imagine that is where stein is getting this from

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

$26 million is way to much to pay to amnesty someone.

Usually you only amnesty players for cap room and that is something the Cats don't really need right now unless they plan on acquiring Kris Humphries and need extra cash to make it happen.

Regardless, I am assuming that Stein just went through teams rosters and picked out guys who he thought would be good amnesty candidates.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

for what its worth, rick bonnell mentioned this on a radio interview on wfnz today. i imagine that is where stein is getting this from

Thanks for the heads up, wasn't sure if Stein just went through teams rosters and picked out players that looked like good amnesty candidates or if he actually has inside info.

Bonnell is fairly accurate, so I would say there is a 75% chance that Diop gets amnesty.

Everyone say goodbye to the resident dinosaur.

[d-run]

$26 million is way to much to pay to amnesty someone.

Usually you only amnesty players for cap room and that is something the Cats don't really need right now unless they plan on acquiring Kris Humphries and need extra cash to make it happen.

Regardless, I am assuming that Stein just went through teams rosters and picked out guys who he thought would be good amnesty candidates.

I don't think we should amnesty either one this year. We don't need the money. What we should do is wait until we need the cap room to use it. Thomas is scheduled to make 9.4 million in 2014 when we might actually have a chance at signing a good player in free agency.

[carolina-chuck]

I heard rumors of amnesting Diop for cap so we can sign OJ Mayo!!!!!

SIKE!!!

[carolina-chuck]

I dnt care we we have or dnt have space. We need to amnesty Diop!!!!!!

[Chaos]

So, if I understand the amnesty rules correctly, you amnesty the player, their salary comes off your cap, there is a blind auction for the player by all other teams, and the auction winner gets the player for the salary they bid and the Bobcats would have to pay him the difference on the remainder of his contract?

So Diop is owed 7.3 million for this season - I guess we will end up paying about 7.28 million, cause nobody is gonna bid jack for him.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

So, if I understand the amnesty rules correctly, you amnesty the player, their salary comes off your cap, there is a blind auction for the player by all other teams, and the auction winner gets the player for the salary they bid and the Bobcats would have to pay him the difference on the remainder of his contract?

So Diop is owed 7.3 million for this season - I guess we will end up paying about 7.28 million, cause nobody is gonna bid jack for him.

You're correct, the only reason to amnesty Diop is to free up more cap space so that we can throw more money at Landry or Humphries; otherwise this would be a dumb move (being that he is already in the last year of his contract) when they could just use the cap space (in a pretty good free agent class) next year and not have to pay him anything.

If the Cats amnesty Diop, they will have two roster spots to fill rather than one.