If Green is traded and Shields, Weigman, and Holmes retire, how much cap space.......

[Mr. Laz]

depends on so many things that we don't know yet.

whenever a player retires the team has the option of withholding the retirement papers ..... deflecting the cap charge for quite awhile.


same with a traded player ....... under the new CBA the team has the option of treating the trade as a post june 1st release ... which splits the cap hit up in various ways.

40% this year, 60% next year
50/50
60/40


it's really hard to judge until we know what choices the team makes.