Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

[ItsGoTime]

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.)

Ok, that clears it up for me. I was thinking LAL had some cap room but not enough to make up the full Kyrie amount ($30M…I guess I didn’t figure that that money comes in based on renouncing/waiving everyone which Beasley is a part of. I was falsely thinking that his salary would add to the capspace for the LAL). Makes more sense now that my brain fog is lifted.