05-28-2023, 08:05 AM
(05-28-2023, 07:51 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: Sorry for not being clear. In the scenario you talked about Beasley, Vandy and Rui only allowing Kyrie to get a starting salary of $36M. My question was, could LAL not sign him to a higher agreed upon starting salary and the Mavs get a TE back for the difference?
HERE ARE THE CONTRACTS (not looking up numbers but these are close enough)
1 DAL trades Kyrie with a salary of 46.7 (which is a hair below the max, but the most that can be paid and avoid Base Year issues in trade)
2 LA trades Beasley (15M), Vandy (5M), Rui (18M)
WITH THOSE PARAMETERS
1 DAL can take all those players and gets a TPE of 8.7M
2 But, LA cannot take Kyrie, because they are not sending out enough salary to match his 46.7.
.... They get credit for 15, 5, and 9 (Rui is Base Year and only counts half). 29*1.25 + 100K is 36.35M, which is the most they could take back for that package. If they are over the apron, they can take back even less -- 29 *1.1 +100K = 32M.
3 DAL getting a TPE has no impact on LA being required to trade match. (LA is not sending it to them out of a bank of LA TPE's. TPE's don't work like that, although the Nelson's liked to explain them like that back in the day, when we didn't know better. It is a credit automatically dispensed by the NBA per the trade rules, when applicable.)