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Can you use capspace to sign and trade a free agent that is not your own? If so, that really increases what we can use the space for, doesn't it? A guy like Artest who may not appeal to us could certainly be sent to teams who would trade something nice for him..

Can you use capspace to sign and trade a free agent that is not your own?

No

http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#76

I believe the answer to this is "no" since teams would have to wait until Dec. 15th to trade players that were signed as free agents in the off-season.

thanks dabods. oh well.

Maybe I am not understanding your question- but I think you can use your capspace- but in a sign and trade.

You can have a team go over the cap using their Bird rights to resign their own player. They then can trade the player to the Sixers.

The Sixers would send back a package that would include a trade exception for however much extra salary we absorb. The other team can use the trade exception to make another move or let it expire in order to help generate capspace.

In this way we use our capspace to sign another teams free agent (with their cooperation.)

Maybe I am not understanding your question- but I think you can use your capspace- but in a sign and trade.

You can have a team go over the cap using their Bird rights to resign their own player. They then can trade the player to the Sixers.

He's asking whether the sixers could sign someone they typically wouldn't want (like, say, Artest in his example) for the sole purpose of trading him to someone else who doesn't have cap space.

For example, we sign Ron Artest for 10 million and immediately trade him for Theo Ratliff and a 1st round pick.

O.K.- Thx