Atlanta Hawks Roster: Players With Non-Guaranteed Contracts Await Fate

by Kris Willis on Feb 7, 2012 11:58 AM EST

Teams with players on non-guaranteed deals must make a decision by the end of the day or those players contracts will become fully guaranteed. SB Nation's Scott Schroeder runs down all of the non-guaranteed deals in the NBA and the Atlanta Hawks have three such players in Ivan Johnson, Jannero Pargo and Jerry Stackhouse.

February 10 is the actual deadline for contracts to become guaranteed but teams will need to waive players by the end of the day to ensure that they clear waivers before the deadline. Therefore a roster move may in fact be more imminent than we originally thought. van Johnson isn't going anywhere for the Hawks as currently he is the backup center and has impressed the Hawks with his play dating back to mini camp in the off season. Johnson is currently averaging six points and four rebounds in 15.7 minutes of action per game.

Jannero Pargo isn't as safe a bet since the Hawks now have Kirk Hinrich back in uniform. Pargo has been relegated of late to third string point guard but could still be valuable if Teague or Hinrich were to go down with an injury. Pargo has appeared in 23 games and has averages of 4.0 points and 1.5 assists per game.

Jerry Stackhouse was slotted for the end of the bench slot that was manned by Etan Thomas last season. Stackhouse's on-court contributions have been minimal but he has drawn praise at every opportunity from teammates and the coaching staff.

Atlanta may elect to waive Stackhouse and Pargo only to bring them back on 10-day contracts much like they did last season with Damian Wilkins. Atlanta currently has one roster spot available.

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I didn't mention it in the story because I am not sure myself

The Hawks are either just under the luxury tax or just over. My interpretation is that Atlanta got under with the waiving of Donald Sloan but Bret at Hoopinion has reported that they are still slightly over. If anyone cares to enlighten me with their opinion I would appreciate it. Wish teams could simply publish this information.

If they are in fact over or are looking to add a big, then someone will get waived today.

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by Kris Willis on Feb 7, 2012 12:01 PM EST reply actions

I expect them to waive one or both of Pargo and Stackhouse anyway

like you say, they probably are looking to play the game again of a couple 10 day contracts before reassessing their options and possible signing them for the rest of the year.

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by Mr. Sanchez on Feb 7, 2012 12:27 PM EST up reply actions

I think that announcement comes this afternoon

What is your take on the luxury tax situation?

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by Kris Willis on Feb 7, 2012 12:31 PM EST up reply actions

Have none

I’m not familiar with the numbers, and I’ve read both ways now. Either way, you and I can both agree that we’ll know by the end of the day. If they are over, someone IS getting cut, cause they won’t be over. If they are slightly under, someone MAY be cut, just to be on the safe side. If they are well under, everyone’s fine, but I haven’t seen anyone say that. It’s been slightly over to slightly under. Which to me, means someone gets cut to stay safe as they evaluate options (say a big man, or guaranteeing whoever is cut after a couple 10 day deals ala Damien Wilkins). But they will NOT be over the tax threshold by the end of the day. We’ve seen enough of ASG’s business to damn near guarantee that much.

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by Mr. Sanchez on Feb 7, 2012 1:27 PM EST up reply actions