TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[Mavsfan12]

Okay. Here's the general principle -- while player salaries being traded can be combined, in general each player is a separate "exception" to the trade rules, allowing some return in that trade. And who matches with who is done for each team separately, to their best benefit.

Draft picks and cash are ignored. But the pick will cost DAL (not CHA) over 4M in salary.
DAL existing TPE expires Jun 27, so this must be a June deal.
Deals in June give a team an exception from an outgoing player for the lesser of salary this year or next.

DAL can take both Hayward and PJW (tot about 33) using the THJ-Powell combo (125%). The existing TPE will take Plumlee. Green is leftover with nothing to match, so Mavs get a new TPE for about 2.9M.

CHA can take all 3 of THJ, Powell, Green using Hayward (125%). They get new TPE's for both Plumlee and PJW.

TPEs are confusing. ESPN trade machine usually stumbles over them, But they are not traded. They are used, and sometimes when one is used, then the other team will get their own as salary goes up on one side and down on the other. So it looks like being traded, but no.

Thanks for that explanation.  I understood it that each transaction created its own exception, not that the whole aggregate was then seen from each side of the transaction.  Illuminating.  

I still don't know why powell and plumlee would be included in this trade suggestion then, unless you view Powell as a substantial asset that incentivizes CHA to do the deal, since he costs CHA 2M more than Plumlee.  The deal works without them, and CHA's motivation is for cap relief.