Trades when under the cap

[mopper8]

Couldn't figure this out from Larry Coon's website, so if anyone knows, it would be appreciated.

If a team is under the cap, and is looking to acquire a player in trade that would put it over the cap, does the outgoing salary have to be 125% + 100,000 of the incoming player's total salary, or would it be 125% + 100,000 of the difference between the player's salary and the amount the team is under the cap?

i.e.

Miami is $10 million under the cap, and wants to trade for a player making $16 million. Do outgoing salaries have to be 125% + 100,000 of $16 million, or $6 million?

[Three34]

6.

[mopper8]

Awesome, thanks Sham

[loserX]

Couldn't figure this out from Larry Coon's website, so if anyone knows, it would be appreciated.

If a team is under the cap, and is looking to acquire a player in trade that would put it over the cap, does the outgoing salary have to be 125% + 100,000 of the incoming player's total salary, or would it be 125% + 100,000 of the difference between the player's salary and the amount the team is under the cap?

i.e.

Miami is $10 million under the cap, and wants to trade for a player making $16 million. Do outgoing salaries have to be 125% + 100,000 of $16 million, or $6 million?

This looks like you are asking two different questions. I believe Miami has to send out $6M, not 125% of $6M.

[Dunkenstein]

Couldn't figure this out from Larry Coon's website, so if anyone knows, it would be appreciated.

If a team is under the cap, and is looking to acquire a player in trade that would put it over the cap, does the outgoing salary have to be 125% + 100,000 of the incoming player's total salary, or would it be 125% + 100,000 of the difference between the player's salary and the amount the team is under the cap?

i.e.

Miami is $10 million under the cap, and wants to trade for a player making $16 million. Do outgoing salaries have to be 125% + 100,000 of $16 million, or $6 million?

This looks like you are asking two different questions. I believe Miami has to send out $6M, not 125% of $6M.

It's all in the comma. The one after $16 million. He asked the question correctly. If there had been no comma, he would have been asking whether outgoing salaries have to be 125% + 100,000 of $16M or 125% + 100,000 of $6M. But the comma gave the answerer (in this case Sham) a choice of $6M or 125% + 100,00 0f $16M. BTW shouldn't he have phrased it 125% of $16M + $100,000? Which would equal $20,100,000.

[loserX]

Couldn't figure this out from Larry Coon's website, so if anyone knows, it would be appreciated.

If a team is under the cap, and is looking to acquire a player in trade that would put it over the cap, does the outgoing salary have to be 125% + 100,000 of the incoming player's total salary, or would it be 125% + 100,000 of the difference between the player's salary and the amount the team is under the cap?

i.e.

Miami is $10 million under the cap, and wants to trade for a player making $16 million. Do outgoing salaries have to be 125% + 100,000 of $16 million, or $6 million?

This looks like you are asking two different questions. I believe Miami has to send out $6M, not 125% of $6M.

It's all in the comma. The one after $16 million. He asked the question correctly. If there had been no comma, he would have been asking whether outgoing salaries have to be 125% + 100,000 of $16M or 125% + 100,000 of $6M.

Just to be finicky (because I NEVER do that elsewhere), I agree that the second question is asked correctly. And Sham answered it correctly, because that's how Sham rolls.

But in the first question, he asks whether it would be 125%+ of the incoming player's salary, or 125%+ of the salary difference (note the underlined). And the answer to that is "neither".

I just wanted the OP to realize that the amount is 100% of the salary difference ($6M), not 125%+ ($7.6M).

[Three34]

The basic plan behind my answer was to be succinct and to avoid overelaboration. I guess it didn't quite pay off.

[loserX]

^I thought you were just naming "Blossom" characters.

[Three34]

I like it when we reference American stuff that I have simply never heard of.

[loserX]

^I'm Canadian and I've heard of it, so that's no excuse. Then again, you Brits have hundreds of years of your own culture and we have "Anne of Green Gables" and William Shatner and that's it.