Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[F Gump]

While the money is low, getting under the tax line will probably cost something. Majority of good teams are extremely close to one of the aprons or hard caps and can't really take more money. Tanking teams that have cap space will want something. So, assuming no bigger trade happens:.

" getting under the tax line will probably cost something" -- Thanks for your thoughts.

I think the idea this could come at a cost could be true, but .... 

But the amount needed is small enough where I think the avenue taken by one or more might instead just be a regular trade, with a minor disparity between outgoing and incoming, rather than looking for a team to take a salary dump. No pick needed. That mean this tax line issue might be a trigger for one or more of those 3 teams (DEN PHX TOR) to do a somewhat bigger, non "salary-dump" trade. For example, I haven't seen anyone mention it, but I think that's what's driving the regular mention of teams wanting Missi - it's not him so much, but rather that he is somewhat playable, he has a small salary, and NO has some room to take back about 2.5M more than they send out. But it certainly works with bigger salary players being swapped too.