How do trade kickers work in trades?

Dantares · Post #1 » by **Dantares** » Sun Sep 5, 2010 2:17 am

Eddy Curry has a 15% trade kicker this year. he makes $11,276,863 so...

$11,276,863 * 1.15 = $12,968,392

If he makes that much money with a trade kicker than why can't I trade him for Chris Paul in the realgm trade machine? (yeah I know that trade would never happen)

CP3 makes $14,940,152 so both of their salaries are with-in 25% of eachother. and i thought all player bonuses have to count against the cap. is the realgm machine working right or does it not count trade kickers?

Dunkenstein · Post #2 » by **Dunkenstein** » Sun Sep 5, 2010 5:26 am

As Larry Coon explains in #87 of his FAQ, "a team trading a player with a trade bonus uses the player's pre-trade salary (without the bonus), when comparing salaries for trade." You can read his full discussion of trade kickers here:

http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#Q87

So therefore, in your example, 125% of Curry's pre-trade salary (plus $100K) is less than Paul's salary. That's why the trade can't be done.