Carlos Boozer is now in the spotlight after being amnestied by his team of four years, the Chicago Bulls. Teams are allowed to use the amnesty clause one time over the course of the collective bargaining agreement, and the Bulls have chosen to remove Boozer to create their needed cap space. Boozer had been number one on the chopping block to be able to bring in ex Laker power forward/center Paul Gasol and power forward Nikola Mirotic. Under the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement, there is a 48-hour waiver process in which teams can bid for Boozer; the highest bidder takes him home. The Bulls are still required to pay the difference between the player’s current salary and whatever he signs for with another team. Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf did not want to have to pay Boozer, and would have preferred to trade him instead, but there were no takers. All of […]
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