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Remember this is all hypothetical. We only get this trade exception if the trade comes down in a very particular fashion. If the FO has no intention of using a $25M TPE (and they probably won't because it'll send us into the tax) there's no point in creating it to begin with. EDIT: I see Father Pat already mentioned it.

I don't think that restriction exists.

No, you definitely can. What you cannot do is combine it with anything else (another exception or player).

Comparatively speaking it's as if I chugged a bottle of beer. My favorite is when he decides to fight a tree: Full twitter thread here:

Technically speaking a TPE is created every time a team over the cap makes a trade and is used in order to be able to absorb salaries that go over the cap. A trade exception is the credit a team gets in a non-simultaneous trade and which may be used for a year after the trade. The trade exception can be used even if we go under the cap because it's considered part of the original trade. However keep in mind that the exception itself creates a cap hold (in addition to Ja's rookie exception and the MLE and BAE we get by operating over the cap) so that scenario is very unlikely. It's complicated: http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q87

And so it begins.

The trade exception creates a cap hold, which counts against the cap, but NOT the luxury tax because it's not actual salary. If we use the TPE to acquire players, their salary does count towards the cap AND the tax, but of course the TPE goes away. We don't have to use the entire TPE though, we can use only part of it and fit under the tax.

Holy crap

I give up.

I'm literally saying that!! I'm not sure why you're arguing with me! My concern (my only concern, as I said in my original post) is that by the time JJJ and our next couple of high picks start showing what they can be JV will be more than 30 and in search of a new contract. It is what it is.

Yes, we have been successful on the court, I'm not one of those that say you can't be successful if you don't win championships. Making the playofs consistently, building a team culture and strengthening the ties with the city are also important. But you can't seriously tell me that the franchise has been successful in building for the future. It's not just Thabeet, we've missed on every single 1st round pick between Conley and JJJ, and that's on the picks we didn't give away like candy. You can make mistakes in the draft, every team does, but you can't sustain success without getting younger players with the potential to replace your aging stars and stay for a long period of time. The best way to get and keep young players is either through the draft or by trading for them while on rookie contracts. We've failed miserably at that. But hey, I'll be the first to cheer if we manage to turn around this team in a year or two. I'm just pessimistic.

Absolutely, better late than never. Unfortunately it's going to take us years to overcome the existing damage. It's a pity that we couldn't get anyone under a rookie contract other than Dorsey in the recent trades.

Good, because that's not what I'm proposing. Read again what I'm actually saying. Besides, the really dumb strategy is to waste picks for 10+ years so you end up with a core whose wheels are going to fall off within 3-4 years of each other and no promising young players read to take over. Following this strategy is what has put the team in a position in which we are forced to hope that a 19 year old or whoever we pick in the next 2-3 drafts will become a superstar. Because hoping that anyone else we have in this roster becomes one is not exactly a winning strategy either.

Come on, Smit, you're not seriously comparing JV with Abdul-Jabbar, are you? Jabbar played at elite level into his late 30s and was a top 3 all time great. JV's production will most likely age like Marc's. And again, that doesn't mean we can't keep JV for the ride. Let's just not marry him.