12-23-2020, 08:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-23-2020, 08:28 AM by SkenfromLMF.)
(12-17-2020, 06:15 PM)Benskix2 Wrote: "While contracts signed under the old agreement still operate by the old rules, contracts signed after July 1, 2017 are subject to the rules of the current CBA. And under the current CBA, only the guaranteed portion of a player’s contract counts for outgoing salary purposes in a trade, limiting the appeal of non-guaranteed salaries as trade chips.
In the example above, the player with a $10MM salary and a $1MM guarantee would now only count for $1MM for outgoing salary purposes in a trade, but the team acquiring him would still have to consider him a $10MM player."
https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2018/07/how-...rades.html
Looks like that's no longer a thing.
I still have hope!
The loop-hole Dallas was much more efficient at using was a Sign and Trade guaranteeing the 1st year, but not years 2 and 3.
My plan would be contingent on Dallas creating a roster spot by aggregating salaries of multiple players and bringing Lee back on a prorated minimum salary around the Trade Deadline. This restores Lee's Bird Rights in the summer of '21, then Dallas could look at a deal of Lee (S&T - 1yr guaranteed) and Powell for a terribly overpriced piece - ala Tobias Harris.
Another option would be to get a piece from say Golden St. for taking on Wiggins contract. If Hield has a less than stellar year, next summer, he might be the type of target this type of deal would generate.