Cavs Amnesty Baron Davis
2011-12-14
The Cleveland Cavaliers have waived guard Baron Davis and designated him as the team’s amnesty player, Cavaliers General Manager Chris Grant announced today from Cleveland Clinic Courts.
“We would like to thank Baron for his contributions to the team during his time in Cleveland,” said General Manager Chris Grant. “He has been an absolute professional since the day he joined the Cavs and we now wish him the best in the future.”
Well, I suppose that answers a lot of questions. Have fun playing in Contending City X, Baron.
And for any of you wondering what effect this move has on the Cavaliers’ cap, our old friend Brian Windhorst explains:
By using amnesty on Baron Davis, Cavs are now about $8 million under salary cap and will be approx. $20 million under next summer.
What the Cavs will do with that cap room remains to be seen. I don’t think Chris Grant, who has preached patience throughout the rebuilding process, will now feel empowered to bid on, say, Arron Afflalo or whomever in the next 48 hours. But we’re about to find out. I’ll keep you guys posted as any additional news becomes available.
I don’t really understand why, I hope this was/is part of Grant’s plan to land a ‘big-time’ talent. I understand he’s injured, but we still don’t need (as it appears now) the salary cap space and we still have to pay him anyway, so I’m really not sure how this benefits us. I guess it’s clear now that Kyrie and Ramon will get the line-share of work at the point, leaving Boobie and Parker at the 2G (maybe Eyenga?). One thing I’ll say is Baron left with ‘class’. I loved his tweet to the fans. He didn’t have to do… Read more »
Thank you, Baron – for helping the Cavs beat that WWE team down in Miami.
I like the move. Baron would take playing time from people who would still be on the team next year, and he would probably help lead us to more wins, but still not the playoffs, so he would have just hurt our chances in the lottery next year. I am happy to let him walk. Now hopefully we can flip jamison at the deadline for a decent asset or pick and contend next year. Suck it up for one more year cavs fans and we could be looking at barnes or davis to pair with kyrie, varajoa, tristan, casspi and… Read more »
Cavs* — I hate auto-spell.
Kevin you brought up a great point; could BD have staged this whole thing in order to move somewhere else? It will be funny to see BD cleared by doctors in 3-4 weeks after being amnestied by the Cavs and going to a contender. The one thing that surprised me was that HE wanted to get a second opinion and his chosen doctor diagnosed him with this issue. Now, did the Cabs medical staff cleared him to play? If that is the case, then I could definitely see him staging the whole injury… Yes, I am a big conspiracy theory… Read more »
Yeah, the whole thing seems pretty convenient to me. We’ll see though. That’s not an easy injury to play through. If it’s legit, he might be done. Happy we’re not losing Ramon or Boobie. I actually think we have a really deep 3 PG rotation, with two guys who can be combo guards. I hope it helps us run teams out of the gym. Also, if Ramon and Jamison play well, we can ship them out before the deadline for draft picks/young prospects. Now I’d like to see them spend a bit of cash to go after some young center… Read more »
Injured, non-amnestied BD may have been a good thing. The PG logjam gets cleared up for a while. I still would have advocated keeping him and saving cap space for 2013, when a new core has started to be assembled.
injured, no team will sign him for more than the veteran minimum…so the Cavs pay 90% of his salary. I’m half joking here, but the injury was probably staged by BD so he could choose his team.
This will surely drop our win total for this year.
Yay??
If he were healthy I would have loved to keep him. But since he’ll be out 2 months plus and then have to come back in a year with no offseason/formal training, and then play in games with less off days, with his injury history I don’t think he’ll hold up this year anyways. We were going to amnesty him next year already, the injury just sped up the process. It will give more minutes to Boobie and Ramon, so we can see what we have in those two guys. It makes Byron the sole guy to mold Kyrie. Also… Read more »
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