Yes Sacramento has some expiring contracts but those contracts aren’t worth much: Bobby Jackson $6M, Cassell $1M, Douby $1M. You forget about how many non-expiring contracts Sacramento has. How about Martin, Nocioni, Udrih, Garcia? Plus Sacramento is likely going to need to save their money to offer Hawes & Thompson an extension after next season too. I’m also guessing Sacramento is going to offer McCants an extension.
I know NJ is rebuilding but how can you use Shaq as an example? Obviously that trade did not work. It is harder to move a contract like Carter’s now b/c of the current state of the economy. If no one traded for him last February before the trade deadline when he was smoking hot, no one is going to trade for him next season either. Don’t you see? He’s old and too expensive.