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 Posted: 05/14/21 9:38 am ::: Re: 2021 WNBA Opening-Day Rosters: Details and Explanations |
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This is great, as always. Thank you so much for putting it together and linking here. I wasn't able to follow along the last couple of days, so this is invaluable for understanding where we are to start the season.
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| Posted: 05/14/21 3:25 pm ::: |
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Thanks for the kind words, as always.
My weekly column is currently scheduled to come out on Fridays this season, just in case anyone out there cares  . |
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| Posted: 05/14/21 3:41 pm ::: |
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| THANK YOU. This is really a service to many of us. Greatly appreciated.
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| Posted: 05/14/21 4:20 pm ::: |
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| The Wings have just enough cap room to add a 14th player if they wish, and it could even be Gustafson, assuming she clears waivers (although in her case they'd have to wait until the 10th day of the season, due to rules about re-signing players a team previously released). |
Since other teams are immediately signing players as hardship when they clear waivers, I assume you mean she would have to wait in order to get an ordinary contract rather than hardship?
and one more:
Once Vadeeva shows up, will LA be able to keep 12 or will they have to cut one more?
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Richyyy
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| Posted: 05/14/21 4:26 pm ::: |
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| The Wings have just enough cap room to add a 14th player if they wish, and it could even be Gustafson, assuming she clears waivers (although in her case they'd have to wait until the 10th day of the season, due to rules about re-signing players a team previously released). |
Since other teams are immediately signing players as hardship when they clear waivers, I assume you mean she would have to wait in order to get an ordinary contract rather than hardship? |
Yeah, signing players via a hardship exception allows you to ignore that rule. Because Dallas would be signing someone to a standard contract (they'd be using cap space, rather than an exception), the rule would apply.
Of course, by the time we're ten days in they're probably hoping that Kuier has arrived, so the option would be redundant. |
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myrtle
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| Posted: 05/14/21 4:30 pm ::: |
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| myrtle wrote: |
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| The Wings have just enough cap room to add a 14th player if they wish, and it could even be Gustafson, assuming she clears waivers (although in her case they'd have to wait until the 10th day of the season, due to rules about re-signing players a team previously released). |
Since other teams are immediately signing players as hardship when they clear waivers, I assume you mean she would have to wait in order to get an ordinary contract rather than hardship? |
Yeah, signing players via a hardship exception allows you to ignore that rule. Because Dallas would be signing someone to a standard contract (they'd be using cap space, rather than an exception), the rule would apply.
Of course, by the time we're ten days in they're probably hoping that Kuier has arrived, so the option would be redundant. |
but they could sign someone else right away, like Anigwe or Warley Talbert or some other recently released post from another team?
And adding my thanks to your work. very helpful.
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Richyyy
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| Posted: 05/14/21 4:34 pm ::: |
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| myrtle wrote: |
| but they could sign someone else right away, like Anigwe or Warley Talbert or some other recently released post from another team? |
Oh absolutely, yes. It's only about re-signing players you've waived yourselves. Same rule that applied back when Phoenix waived Leilani Mitchell in camp so that they could re-sign her slightly cheaper and fit her under the cap - they had to wait 10 days.
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and one more:
Once Vadeeva shows up, will LA be able to keep 12 or will they have to cut one more? |
Vadeeva's salary already counts as one of the 12 they're fitting under the cap, so in cap terms nothing gets any more expensive when she arrives. So no, there's no need to cut anyone when she shows up. |
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| Posted: 05/15/21 11:50 pm ::: |
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| One of my interpretations of various statements from Iliana Rupert and the fact that she has not signed her contract yet is that there is a possibility that she and Las Vegas agreed to leave open the option of signing the contract in time for her to join the team after the Olympics when she is available to play, avoiding the need for a temporary suspension. It looks like that could still be in play, but I wonder how that would play out if visas are still taking time to process in a few months. |
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| Posted: 05/16/21 2:09 am ::: |
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| One of my interpretations of various statements from Iliana Rupert and the fact that she has not signed her contract yet is that there is a possibility that she and Las Vegas agreed to leave open the option of signing the contract in time for her to join the team after the Olympics when she is available to play, avoiding the need for a temporary suspension. It looks like that could still be in play, but I wonder how that would play out if visas are still taking time to process in a few months. |
Unless she demands to play this season, I find it hard to believe that they’d want her to come after the Olympics. They were playing with 11, and the McCoughtry injury brings them down to 10 active. Being title contenders, you would think they’d want to keep all 10 players with experience with their system just in case another injury happens.
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