I’m not crazy enough to try to guess how the Carmelo Anthony and Portland Trail Blazers marriage will work out. History doesn’t bode well but, hey, desperate times and all that.
What I am crazy enough to do is write a few hundred words on the salary cap minutiae of a minimum salary signing! Consider it Blazer’s Edge’s version of micro-targeting.
The NBA veteran minimum for a player with more than ten seasons of experience is $2,564,753. Seasons are chunked into 177 single days segments and, as near as I can tell, Anthony will be paid for 152 days if he sticks with the team for the rest of the season.