Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

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Brian Windhorst: Warriors could use Kristaps Porzingis' contract as a $25 million trade exception. "It essentially functions as a trade exception, and not even that, because a trade exception allows you to acquire the player. When you trade for a player, it depends on which team is making the trade because different teams have different rules based on where they are on the apron, but you can get up to 125 percent of the salary back. It could be a 25-million-dollar trade exception that just exists because that's the thing about a trade exception: you could just trade for a player, acquire the player, and the other team doesn't have to pay. I wouldn't be surprised if they are considering exactly what you did because this was not, and I don't think the Warriors knew this. I think the Warriors were expecting him to report to camp."

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