orlando-magics-projected-space-it-isnt-much by Philip Rossman-Reich https://orlandomagicdaily.com/2018/03/17/orlando-magics-projected-space-it- isnt-much/ The buyout market in the NBA is pretty much closed. The Playoff rosters around the league are pretty much set. Everyone is gearing up for the stretch run. The final 13 games will bring Playoff glory to 16 teams and an eye on the ping pong balls for 14 others. The Orlando Magic know which group they will be in. They have been eyeing the NBA Draft Lottery for some time now. And there is an almost daily watch of the standings. 前言:今年球季大至上已经到了尾声，有人为进季後赛努力，有人开始为选秀签努力。 我魔当然是後者。 Everyone surrounding the Magic recognizes change is coming. President of basketball operations Jeff Weltman admitted as much when he traded Elfrid Payton. He said on that day it did not make sense for the Magic to commit money to a group that was not working anymore (if it ever did). The Magic were trying to preserve some financial flexibility for the summer. 大部分人都期待魔术队会作出改变，执行长Jeff Weltman承认，把过去不成功的模式 作了改变，把EP交易了出去。为的就是暑假来临时，球队会有一些弹性空间。 The reality though is the Magic do not have a ton of cap space to spend. The NBA’s salary cap is starting to flatten out. There will be no dramatic increase in money available. All those contracts the teams around the league handed out the last two years are finally coming to roost. Precious few teams are expected to have cap space this summer. The Magic are not one of them. 事实上，魔术队并没有太多的空间，薪资上限不如当初预期的增加，过去两年各球团 发的大肥约，最後都会报应在球团自己身上。 极少球队在夏天会有薪资空间，但魔术也不在其中。 That is perhaps one of the most disheartening things about the Magic’s current situation. They are bad. And bad full of young veterans and long contracts. They do not have the financial flexibility to help take on bad contracts to flip over the roster or go out in free agency and find the players they want there. Filling out needs is going to take some time. And a bit of patience. Or some tricky financial calculus in the trade market. The Magic have a lot of work to do. 魔术队现在情况就是战绩很差，而且有些肥约又很长的老将，没有空间来在自由球员 市场表现。 This summer may not be the one to do it. According to Keith Smith of Real GM, the Magic are projected to be roughly $19 million under the $101 million salary cap. That is actually the same amount of cap space (or lack thereof) they will start the offseason with. Realistically, the Magic have $78.1 million guaranteed for next year already, according to Basketball Insiders’ salary database. They still have non-guaranteed contracts in Shelvin Mack (just $1 million of his $6 million is guaranteed for next year) and Khem Birch (a minimum deal for a rookie). And this total does not include the cap holds for Mario Hezonja and Aaron Gordon. In all likelihood, the majority of that $19-million-plus of cap room will go to Aaron Gordon’s contract. That will leave Orlando with precious little room to sign new players. Orlando then has to use some space to sign its first-round pick — there is an exception that allows them to go over the cap to do this. 魔术队薪资预计会比薪资上限101m还要低19m，也就是可以使用的空间。 事实上，总共只有78.1m是确定的合约，球队还有像MACK的6M合约但是其中只有1m是 保障的合约，还有Birch领的是菜鸟最低薪。 但是这些没包括AG跟黑松在内。而且非常有可能，这19m可用的空间都会付给AG，另外 还要签下暑假选进来的新秀，这让可以用的空间更少了。 Add it all up, and the Magic do not have a lot of space to maneuver this summer. Orlando was not able to do much at the deadline to clear some space. Trading Payton merely erased his cap hold and the minimally onerous restriction it puts on them to wait to resolve their unrestricted free agent first. 交易掉EP其实只减轻了一点点的空间压力。 Orlando can go over the cap to sign Gordon this summer because they hold his Bird Rights. So Orlando has $19 million in realistic cap room but Gordon’s cap hold on its own will eat up most of that space — $16.5 million according to Eric Pincus’ salary database on Basketball Insiders. As the Magic begin to assess how to change things up this summer, this is where it all starts. Orlando will have to deal with Gordon’s free agency first. And that will likely eat up whatever cap space they have. 因为魔术队掌有AG的鸟权，所以魔术队签下他後的球队总薪资可以超过薪资上限。AG 的鸟权在暑假一开始就会列为16.5m的薪资，而这些大概已经吃掉19m的大部分空间。 In free agency, they will only really have the nontaxpayer mid-level exception (roughly $8 million) to use to add new players. 所以魔术队在暑假只会有中产条款可以用，大概是8m The task ahead of Weltman then is a complex one. It means most of the Magic’ s activity will come in the trade market. And that will make it hard to get back equal value. Or create much more flexibility. 这一切表示魔术队想要更好只能从交易市场来下手，也许交易来更好的资产，或者制造 出更多的薪资空间。 ---- 恩恩 跟我想的一样 --

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