08-10-2021, 06:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-10-2021, 08:05 PM by DanSchwartzgan.)
Let me attempt to clarify on the TPE conversation that’s been going on. You can bring in a player/players using the TPE. If the TPE is exactly $10.9mm you can absorb a player making $11 million or under (there is a $100k buffer on the TPE). So, if the TPE is used for a S&T, it can be for any amount under the TPE (using part of the TPE) up to $100k over the TPE.
What you can’t do us combine the $10.9mm with $2.0 million in space or a player making $2.0mm and pretend you are sending out $13mm for trade matching purposes. No matter what you send out, you are only bringing back into the TPE what the TPE allows. Can you send out more? Sure. But it isn’t adding anything to what the TPE can absorb. You could send out Powell and Burke at about $14.9mm and take back a player making $11mm into the TPE (but why, that works as a trade match). The specific question was TT plus the TPE. You can trade anything (cash, highly protected 2028 second) and bring someone back into the TPE. The question is can the other team take TT. Why not as long as it is a legal trade. Think of LM coming into our TPE for $11mm as the completion of the JRich deal. Can Chicago take back TT in a deal where they send out LM at $11mm? Yes. As has been discussed, LM has to be willing to play for that amount for 3 years as a non-guaranteed contract doesn’t help LM. He’d be under team control for the entire three years whether there was a non-guarantee or not.
The other possible way (and probably more likely way) to do a LM deal is trade matching (the TPE isn’t necessarily used). FG has pointed out that LM is subject to BYC since Chicago isn’t using cap space to sign him. In fact, they are within about $18mm of the LT without counting LM’s hold. So, any trade matching salary has to come in safely under the tax. There are only so many ways this can happen. The good news is Chicago has a $5mm TPE, Dallas has a $10.865mm TPE and the DeRozan deal is still not official. SA could take on some salary Chicago doesn’t want (Maxi?) to help facilitate the deal. Maybe the cost of doing that is Dallas taking something SA doesn’t want into our TPE. Oh, and what compensation has to go to Chicago? They want a first rounder (reportedly). Does Green count? Is that why he isn’t playing in SL?
What you can’t do us combine the $10.9mm with $2.0 million in space or a player making $2.0mm and pretend you are sending out $13mm for trade matching purposes. No matter what you send out, you are only bringing back into the TPE what the TPE allows. Can you send out more? Sure. But it isn’t adding anything to what the TPE can absorb. You could send out Powell and Burke at about $14.9mm and take back a player making $11mm into the TPE (but why, that works as a trade match). The specific question was TT plus the TPE. You can trade anything (cash, highly protected 2028 second) and bring someone back into the TPE. The question is can the other team take TT. Why not as long as it is a legal trade. Think of LM coming into our TPE for $11mm as the completion of the JRich deal. Can Chicago take back TT in a deal where they send out LM at $11mm? Yes. As has been discussed, LM has to be willing to play for that amount for 3 years as a non-guaranteed contract doesn’t help LM. He’d be under team control for the entire three years whether there was a non-guarantee or not.
The other possible way (and probably more likely way) to do a LM deal is trade matching (the TPE isn’t necessarily used). FG has pointed out that LM is subject to BYC since Chicago isn’t using cap space to sign him. In fact, they are within about $18mm of the LT without counting LM’s hold. So, any trade matching salary has to come in safely under the tax. There are only so many ways this can happen. The good news is Chicago has a $5mm TPE, Dallas has a $10.865mm TPE and the DeRozan deal is still not official. SA could take on some salary Chicago doesn’t want (Maxi?) to help facilitate the deal. Maybe the cost of doing that is Dallas taking something SA doesn’t want into our TPE. Oh, and what compensation has to go to Chicago? They want a first rounder (reportedly). Does Green count? Is that why he isn’t playing in SL?