(08-12-2021, 07:01 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Option 1: Trade Match
One of the rules of BYC is after the deal they can't be over the tax including holds.
Where did you get this from? I've never heard of such a rule. But there are so many, that it's easy to miss some, I guess.
Option 2: TPE
I won't repeat all that has been said about why Markkanen wouldn't want to be under team control for the required 3 years of a S&T into our TPE. BTW, could someone please tell the "locked on" guys that a TO in the 2nd and 3rd year doesn't solve the issue for LM.
More impactful than the fact that LM wouldn't like a TO in years 2 and 3 of a snt is the fact that TO's won't be in there anyhow. They aren't legal.
The Chicago TPE plays a role in a deal where LM settles for a deal starting at $11mm. It allows us to send back some salary.
You're making it more complicated than it is on trade mechanics.
Fitting incoming salary within an existing TPE can be a mechanism to a bigger TPE. But it's not necessary to a deal. In this case, all that's needed is CHI's willingness to accept that salary of that amount.
CHI is dealing with the hard cap in relation to their various cap holds and exceptions. One consequence is that they may end up having to discard exceptions. So this is part of the equation for them in assessing any trade. For that reason, in some scenarios they may actually prefer a smaller TPE than a larger one. Or they might renounce MLE or BAE, in favor of keeping TPE possibilities. It's an interesting exercise in caponomics math for CHI's various possibilities (and one I'm not spending real time to figure out).
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