Why could OKC offer the extension that they did...

[GreenEnvy]

...yet we could only offer a max extension of ~$22 million?

How does that make any sense? The guy played for us for what, 8 seasons and we can only offer what we did, yet a team that had him for less than a week can offer a boatload more?

Something seems wrong here.

[Roy H.]

This is explained elsewhere, but in a nutshell it's because OKC had cap room this year.  That allowed them to negotiate Perk's salary upward by about $2 million this year.  His new salary became the basis of his extension.

We couldn't give him that raise because we didn't have cap space to do so.

[Lucky17]

...yet we could only offer a max extension of ~$22 million?

How does that make any sense? The guy played for us for what, 8 seasons and we can only offer what we did, yet a team that had him for less than a week can offer a boatload more?

Something seems wrong here.

Roy broke it down in the other thread.

In short, OKC had cap room to immediately give him a raise on this season, and then used that new salary to extend his contract. That's why they could sign him to a bigger contract.

[droponov]

THey had cap space.

When teams have cap room, when they are below the cap, it's possible renegotiate existing contracts - give raises till the salary cap limit. This never happens because nobody will give players unnecessary raises.

After the trade, OKC was about $2 millions under the cap.

They raised Perkins salary this season. From about $4.5 millions to $6.5 millions.

So the starting salary for the 4 years extension allowed by the CBA became significantly higher. Factoring the raises, it means that OKC was able to offer him about $13 millions more than Boston.

Smart move.

[GreenEnvy]

Ahh, funny thing is I think I read that from one of Roy's posts, I just forgot.

Thanks guys, you can lock/delete this thread.

[incoherent]

i have no idea why man sorry i couldnt help

[greenpride32]

It really wouldn't have mattered if the C's could offer more than $22/4.  They simply were't going to even if possible since there's too much money already tied up in Rondo, Allen, Pierce, and Garnett next year.  You're already lookin at over $50m with these guys alone.