06-18-2024, 12:37 PM
(06-18-2024, 05:42 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: If you trade THJ for air, you basically have about $17mm under the apron. If you give DJJ the full $12.9 MLE, then you can use some of, but not all of the BAE (or one of the TPE's), but you've hard-capped yourself at the first apron.
You can also trade match THJ, but if you go over 100% of his salary, it also hard caps you at the first apron.
We can also look at deals that occur in June. If you want to do a dump, I believe Utah is the only team with cap room. Brooklyn and Atlanta have TPE's large enough to take Hardaway. Brooklyn is hard-capped for 23/24 and only $15.2mm under the apron (so not enough room for THJ without some returning salary). Atlanta is not hard-capped in 23/24. Three way deals are also a possibility in June, but taxes would have to also be considered as some structures could easily turn a a non-taxpaying team for 23/24 into a tax paying team.
If you want to trade THJ and bring back matching salary (thus killing DJJ for anything over the TP MLE), you'd be better off doing it now if the player you are bringing back makes more than THJ. Remember from the earlier post that a trade with more than 100% matching salary hard caps you at the first apron next season (and we are barely under the apron for 24/25 now).
If you want to trade match THJ for a larger salary now, there are a couple of things to bear in mind. Normally a trade match for THJ would be at a $7.5mm spread. We are only $6.2mm under the apron for 23/24 and we are hard-capped. So, something under $6.2mm is the most we could bring back above what THJ makes. $17.8 + $6.2 = $24mm. However, anything over about $600k makes us a tax team for 23/24. So, $18.5mm might be the practical limit for returning salary from a June trade of THJ unless we send out an additional salary.