Hoops Hype evaluated the different Bird Rights labels. At a projected $97.7 million in committed salaries to a $109 million salary cap, there is room to re-sign Gay with the available room or his Birds Rights, since he will finish a second season in San Antonio this allows the organization to exceed when the salary cap when re-signing him.
That's if he commands a final, lucrative multi-year deal, that guarantees money for the next two-to-three years, instead of the single-year pacts.īuying out Pau Gasol helped San Antonio's cap situation for 2019-20, as they dropped part of the 38-year-old's guaranteed money from $6.7 million to $5.1 million.
Gay is a complementary piece at this point of his career, but he might not be paid like it in July.