2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[DanSchwartzgan]

Ok let's say he is deadset to leave, just for the sake of it.

You can't even make a legit trade with his salary, because out=/=in. TPE is gone at the start of FA.

You would pay assets just to make anything work.
If he's gone, he is gone.
Or you have to take what you can get, what is the opposite of planing.

Actually, you HAVE TO make a trade with anyone who wants him that doesn't have cap room.  So, NY (as I've illustrated numerous times) has to come up with the right amount of salary to make BYC work.  It isn't difficult to do with other teams either.  It is just math.

At this point we don't have certainty around when the TPE is gone.  The most likely expiration date is 7/31 as it is listed at Spotrac which is one calendar year from the Richardson trade.  That is a month after free agency starts, meaning the TPE can easily be used to facilitate something around the draft or in the first few weeks after the moratorium.  

I don't think anyone wants this outcome, but it would be foolish to not have contingencies around the possibility.