Salaries and Trades

[dbestpro]

Did you know the Michael Finley is the fourth highest paid player in the league?

Did you know Brian Grant earns more than Tim Duncan or Kobe Bryant?

All trades must be within 100K. Go to http://www.hoopshype.com/salaries.htm

and see what trades can and cannot work. This will help the couch traders to keep it real.

For an example, try to see whst you get for Barry and Williams. Who do you have to throw in to make a higher salary work?

Muhammad can always be added in a sign and trade.

[strangeweather]

All trades must be within 100K. Go to http://www.hoopshype.com/salaries.htm

I'm pretty sure that it's actually that all trades in which neither team is below the cap must be be within 25% + $100K.

[dbestpro]

Noted. Trade away.

[dbestpro]

Teams under the salary cap may make trades as they please, as long as they don't end up more than $100,000 above the salary cap following a trade. But if a team is over the cap, or they are under the cap and a trade would take them more than $100,000 over the cap, then an exception is required. An exception is the mechanism that allows a team to make trades or sign free agents and be over the salary cap. Since teams are usually over the salary cap, trades are usually accomplished using exceptions.

Any trade which results in the team ending up over the salary cap requires an exception. This is true even if the team is moving downward in salary. For example, if the salary cap is $50 million, a team has a team salary of $55 million, and they want to trade a $5 million player for a $4 million player, they still have to use an exception. Even though their team salary would be decreasing by $1 million, the fact that they would still be over the salary cap ($54 million) means that an exception is required.

The Traded Player exception is the primary means used by teams over the cap for completing trades. It allows teams to make trades that leave them over the cap, but it places several restrictions on those trades. Trades using the Traded Player exception are classified into two categories: simultaneous and non-simultaneous. As its name suggests, a simultaneous trade takes place all at once. Teams can acquire up to 125% plus $100,000 of the salaries they are trading in a simultaneous trade. For example, a team trading a $5 million player in a simultaneous trade can receive one or more players whose salary is no more than 125% of $5 million, plus $100,000, or $6.35 million in return.