bwgood77 wrote:Flying Colors wrote:bwgood77 wrote:So I guess we can keep Tucker or Kieff if we sign LMA? It doesn't seem like the salaries work. If we keep Tucker it seems like we would have to send out Goodwin and more.
One thing i'm not entirely clear is where the dragic trade exception does and how it can come into play
I don't know. I never think of trade exceptions for under the cap teams. I only thought they were useful for over the cap teams so a team over the cap if they unloaded salary they could replace it even if they are over the cap. I'm not even sure why you get a trade exception when you are under the cap...maybe if you go over the cap then you can use it, but I don't think you can use it in a trade when another player is involved.
The trade exception can only be used in non simultaneous deals, meaning the exception can be used by only by itself to acquire one player, so for example packaging multiple players + the trade exception for Aldridge would not be allowed under the CBA. As I said in the other thread I think Dragic's trade exception needs to be renounced before signing Aldridge or it counts against the cap. But, I think the trade exception can be used before any potential signings to create a little extra cap by trading and subsequently waiving a player who makes up to 150% of the trade exception value (5.5 million in this case).
