Little Catch Up

hola..sorry for the lack of updates as life has been hectic, but good news is not too too much happened over the past 3-4 days.  But to begin let's discuss the now finalized collective bargaining agreement.  The salary cap for 2005-06 was set at $49.5 million, which actually was higher than Cavaliers officials had anticipated.  So what's that mean..we now have about $3.9 million left to spend in free agency.  But will that be enough to buy both a backup center and starting point guard? 

There is talk of Dale Davis as our backup center given he is gonna turn down a $1.5 million contract from the Pacers.  He is old, but should do fine as a backup to Z.  In terms of our PG, Denver papers are saying interest is still high that the Nuggets will land Jaric.  Although, Denver might choose to hold onto all their $5 million midlevel exception until Aug. 15, which is the deadline for teams to invoke the so-called amnesty rule. 

What is this rule you ask?  This clause allows teams a one-time exception to waive a player without paying further luxury tax on the player's contract.

So back to free agents..the Cavs are also looking at free agents Damon Jones, Steve Blake, & Earl Watson as our starting PG.  Damon was solid for the Heat, b/c well he has a shot, but turned down a $2.7 million option to stay in Miami.  It could work out for us, but he might be lookin for an amount out of our price range. 

Speaking of our price range, tomorrow at noon the NBA says its finally time to start signing free agents.  So looks like tomorrow the Cavs are gonna drop $130 million on Larry Hughes, Donyell Marshall and Zydrunas Ilgauskas.

Also check out these random bits of news:

• Ferry said the player most asked about in trades is Anderson Varejao.  Ferry says he receives a call "almost every day" about the pimp from Brazil.  He isn't going anywhere first cause he is awesome and second I rather not see my #17 jersey go out of style just yet.  Even though reports say Gooden isn't going anywhere, I am not too sure about this.  C'mon..start Anderson..he will give us the defense and rebounding we need in a PF.  Plus either way we have Donyell now so why keep all 3..shall see. 

• Jeff "I'm a punk & overrated" McInnis was picked up by the Nets for a cool $3.5 million a year to backup Kidd.  Pathetic move by the Jigga Man and the Nets.  He is proven that he isn't worth it, but whatever..it's New Jersey.