For those who wonder if management is truly doing all they can to help our team, check out the salary information on HoopsHype.com and more salary information on InsideHoops.com. Though not completely accurate, both sources show a similar fact. The Magic have one of the lowest payrolls in the NBA. This, even after our beloved owner told management that money was no object this past summer and that the cap could be exceeded. It amazes me that we even hold .500 year after year.
With one of the hardest players on the team raking in 366k and the worst pulling in 1.4m, it is a damn wonder we win any games. The Magic are a few $3-8 million dollar players away from contending.
Guess we cannot blame everything on Gabe - after all, he is working within a budget.
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well, 'money's no object' still doesn't exonerate you from obeying the almighty salary cap. And the magic used all they had this past summer(mid level exemption and some change) for Howard. Now if they had gotten the injury exemption from the league that certainly would've helped. So if you can't sign free agents, you need to trade, and the magic don't have much besides McGrady. so there ARE limitations, it just shows that in today's NBA, one horrible cap move can screw you over for years.
You can go over the cap and pay a penalty. DeVos gave the ok for the Magic to do so - and yet we still have one of the lowest payrolls.
you can sign your own players for whatever you want, even if you're over the cap. you still can't sign other team's free agents beyond the exemptions you're given. So the cheapness really comes in by not wanting to re-sign miller or armstrong, IMO.