JULY 11, 7:00pm: The Sixers have officially used the amnesty clause on Brand, David Aldridge of TNT reports (Twitter link). Teams can submit bids for Brand over the course of the next week for either his full $18.16MM salary or a portion of it. John Hollinger of ESPN.com says the Mavs are likely to make a bid, and can do so for up to $9.2MM (Twitter link).
JULY 6, 11:12am: The Mavericks are one under-the-cap team that will have interest in Brand, tweets ESPN.com's Marc Stein. David Aldridge of TNT tweets that the Nets will be interested as well, but they wouldn't have a shot at the power forward unless he clears waivers.
10:10am: The 76ers will exercise the amnesty provision on Elton Brand to clear the final year of his contract from their books, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports (via Twitter). The move, which can't be made official until the amnesty period begins on July 11th, will clear $18MM+ in salary from the team's books.
With news that the Sixers had reached an agreement with Nick Young for more than the mid-level exception, it became clear that Philadelphia had decided to amnesty Brand, as I wrote in our post on the Young agreement. The move will leave the Sixers with five players under contract when the offseason begins, reducing their total guaranteed salaries to about $32.7MM. Contracts for Spencer Hawes, Lavoy Allen, and Young will be added to that figure, but should still leave Philadelphia with a decent amount of room under the cap, especially if the club renounces Lou Williams.
As for Brand, Wojnarowski tweets that there will be "significant interest" among teams to claim Brand off amnesty waivers. It's worth noting that amnesty waivers gives first dibs to clubs with cap space. Contenders like the Heat, Knicks, Lakers, and Clippers, among other over-the-cap teams, will only have a shot to sign Brand if he clears waivers.
For a refresher on the amnesty process, including details on how the bidding works, check out our Hoops Rumors glossary entry on the topic.
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Beautiful, let’s amnesty brand once all the good free agents are gone? Why the hell wait so long!
There were good free agents?
ur an absolute idiot you have to wait until today to be able to amnesty a player… dumbass
would be a nice fit with the Knicks. They need some big men off the bench.
Don’t blame them…don’t want him on the Celtics
what are they going to do with the $$$. Who’s a FA after next year? Young plays the 2 & 3, could this mean that the Sixers trade Iggy for a Big Man?
My guess is that this means they are about to try and take on a big contract which means there will be a trade in the next couple days. I hope.
Considering teams claiming him won’t pay more than the vets minimum I would love to see him cone back to Chicago. He could be a nice back up and replace asik who the bulls should not match.
He would be a great fit back with the Clippers should he be willing to accept the BAE or the vet minimum. Dunleavy is gone, and Sterling always had a warm spot for Brand. Backing up DJ and Blake would be a very good role for him. His length, girth, and free throw shooting would be a welcome addition the 4th quarter lineup when looking to close out games.
when u say girth do you mean jelly rolls
Slow as molasses
He is going to the MAVS.
SEND HIM BACK TO THE CLIPPERS!!!!!!!!!
good move sixers now you can sign me