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Options with the Kemba/Rozier Sign-and-Trade

Hey, just taking a quick break from being really fucking pumped about Kemba to share some notes on what the deal means so far.

The Kemba/Rozier sign-and-trade alone is exactly the same for us as renouncing Rozier and signing Kemba outright. We have to take Kemba into our cap space here because we aren't sending out enough to match, so we just get the room exception and like $2 mil of cap space. Same situation it looked like when the "definitely not an agreement yet" started coming out, no full MLE or trade exception.

The fun part comes if we can work something out this week to expand the deal and include Kyrie and/or Al. There are two main things we can do after that.

  1. Make it a 3 team deal with Brooklyn where we S&T Kyrie. This lets us keep Al's bird rights to re-sign or S&T him for either a player or a trade exception. (/u/larbrd33 and u/ilyao_ have posted about this)

  2. Make it a 3 team deal with Al's Mystery team. This gives us a trade exception for Terry's outgoing salary (~9 mil) if Al gets over 26 mil this year (his salary alone matches with Kemba here).

Both of these options give us the full MLE and let us keep Mook's rights. Re-signing Al will get us pretty close to the hard cap though, if he goes over $22-23ish million it'll start cutting into the MLE. We'd have maybe 5-6 million left of it including a Carsen Edwards deal. Still most likely enough to outbid other room teams.

TL;DR - it doesn't do anything, but gives us a chance to do something

Posted Jun 30, 2019, 10:56 PM UTC

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BobbyGuapo•

Can we get Frank the Tank for rozier?

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illusionarilyOP•

He's a UFA, we can get him anyways!

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CrushEveryDay•

I’m curious whether we’re actually getting a real asset here. Obviously we didn’t have much leverage since we had to renounce Rozier anyway, but Charlotte needed us to agree.

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jackofallspades999•

Nice. There's still a glimmer of hope than Ainge can do something.

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TechSupportLarry•

Where is the matching salary going to come from?

You'll have to say goodbye to Smart.

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illusionarilyOP•

You only need to match salaries if you end up over the cap after a trade. With no third team, we make the deal under the cap. It's exactly the same as signing Kemba as a free agent.

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Incognadeau•

Can they not sign horford then trade for Kemba with matching salaries?

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illusionarilyOP•

That's basically what the S&T with Kyrie would do. Without that, we'd have to come up with at least $17ish mil in salary to match with Kemba (which likely means giving up Smart or selling low on Hayward).

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