DusterBuster wrote:mighty_duck wrote:DusterBuster wrote:
According to the ESPN trade machine, just Nurk straight up for Zion works currently, I believe due to his PPP and Nurks salary matching Zion’s pre-extension salary.
ESPN trade machine is broken for now, showing last season's salaries.
But I think your proposal works.
For next season, Zion makes 33.5m. We'll need to match up to 125% of that, so send at least 26.8m of outgoing salaries.
Nurk makes 16.9m next season. Little 6.2m. Knox 3m. Keon 2.8m = 28.9m
Fwiw, it’s not just the ESPN trade machine it works on. Tried it on the my iOS NBA Switch app and it worked. Could be both aren’t right tho.
I don't think those are working correctly. Since Zion signed a rookie scale extesnion the "poison pill" is in effect. From
the CBAFAQ the player's trade value for the receiving team is the average of the salaries in the last year of the rookie scale contract and each year of the extension. The sending team uses the player's actual salary when calculating their total outgoing salary, and uses the current-year maximum salary in place of the (unknown) maximum salary for a future season, if necessary1.
Zion is making $13.5 million this salary year. He signed a 5 year extension with $194.3 million in guaranteed money. If you add those and divide by two you get to $34.66 million in incoming salary for us.
In other words Nurkic for Zion works for the Pelicans but for us it doesn't work since we're taking back a lot more salary than we're sending out and don't have a TPE anywhere close to being large enough to absorb that amount.
The obvious solution is to add Simons to the deal, but that would also require the Pelicans to add value and contracts. Alternatively find a third team to balance value and absorb some of the difference in salaries. Orlando is the obvious choice since they seem to covet Simons, have some cap space, two firsts and attractive contracts.
