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The Highlights of the NBA Trade
Deadline
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 February
18th was the trade deadline in the NBA. Some of the activity that
happened leads people to question the payroll rules that are in place
in the NBA. Due to their salary cap rules the salaries in any trade
have to match up and not put anyone over the salary maximum. It is
because of these restrictions some unusual scenarios unfolded at the
deadline. The first trade I’d like to look at is the
Cavaliers-Wizards-Clippers trade.
Cavaliers get:
Antawn Jamison
Sebastian Telfair
Wizards get:
2010 Caviliers 1st round draft choice
Zydrunas Ilgauskas
Emir Preldzic
Al Thornton
Clippers get:
Drew Gooden
The Wizards are a franchise now ravaged by the
Gilbert Arenas scandal and are in restart mode. In addition to Jamison,
they also traded away key veterans Karon Butler and Brendan Haywood to
Dallas. However, they got little to no immediate value in this trade
since they cut Ilgauskas immediately after the trade was official. He
is now free to sign with any team, the assumption being that he will
resign with the Cavaliers as soon as league rules allow him to which is
30 days. By doing this, the Wizards will pay his salary this year, but
will not have to pay any of the salaries for Ilgauskas, Telfair and
Jamison beyond this year. The Wizards moves are bizarre on paper, but
are necessary to manipulate the system to free up salary cap space for
next year.
The Chicago Bulls moves are more questionable. Their goal to was to
free up salary cap space as well. The Bulls trades are:
Bulls get:
Ronald Murray
Acie Law
Conditional Bobcats 1st round draft choice
Bobcats get:
Tyrus Thomas
and
Bulls get:
Hakim Warrick
Joe Alexander
Bucks get:
John Salmons
2011 Bulls 2nd round draft choice
2012 Bulls 2nd round draft choice
(both draft choices will be exchanged for Chicago’s 2010 1st round
choice if it is between the 11th and 30th picks in the 1st round)
The Bulls trades are more confusing since they
themselves are currently in the playoff position in the Eastern
Conference, yet they are still dumping salary to position themselves
better this off-season. Making it even crazier is the fact that
Charlotte and Milwaukee, their trade partners, are in direct
competition with the Bulls for the last playoff spots in the Eastern
Conference. Since the trades the Bulls have fallen from 6th to 9th in
the Eastern Conference standings and would not qualify for the playoffs
if they started today, while Charlotte and Milwaukee would.
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