05-28-2023, 06:39 AM
(05-27-2023, 12:25 PM)omahen Wrote: Is this specific for SnT? I don't know all CBA details. My simple thought was, Mavs are sending out a big Kyrie salary and receiving only a small salary back. The difference becoming TE.
I don't think anyone makes more cap mistakes than me, but I will take a shot. The good news is FG usually comes behind me and cleans up my messes. My answer would be that it depends on assumptions and order of operation.
My assumption is LA is operating over the cap. Yes, Dallas would get a TPE if it traded KI into LA cap space, but that limits both LA and Kyrie. If LA is over the cap, then this is a salary matching deal. So, they have to send salary somewhere that allows them to bring back whatever they are paying KI. If it is multiple players going out from LA, then it is a simultaneous trade and no TPE is created.
There is an aggregation rule related to non-simultaneous. This is where it gets muddy for me. If a deal requires aggregation, it is simultaneous (no TE). If it is non-simultaneous (to get a TE), it cant aggregate players. Let's talk through two situations and maybe FG will help us out.
1. LA sends multiple players to a cap room team with total salary outgoing of $40mm (one makes $18mm and another makes $22mm). If that creates a single $40mm TE, we are good to go and Dallas sends Kyrie into that TE and creates a new one (close to what you were hoping)
2. If that creates two TE's (one for $18mm and one for $22mm), then the non-simultaneous thing doesn't help unless there is a single LA outgoing player who will get paid by a cap-room team about the same amount Kyrie would be willing to sign for with LA.
I don't think that player exists on the LA roster. But here is how it might work in a different situation. Philly S&T's Harden to Houston at $40mm for a protected second round pick. Then Kyrie can be traded to Philly for a protected second at any number up to $40.1mm and Dallas gets the TE for that amount. The key, at least to my understanding, is there was no aggregation in establishing that TE and it was a non-simultaneous trade.