The 2013-14 NBA season

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

and my four favorite words on draft night - "We have a trade"

and the transaction is Mehmet Okur to the Nets for a draft pick in 2015

so long, money man

OK, basketball junkies (PX, SoS, XM, etc.)....explain me two things

what's a "trade exception"? we got one for memo...woo hoo

secondly (and I'm way too lazy to read the CBA), this whole split of BRI....how does it actually effect contracts? e.g. D Rose's $19m per year deal....is this 50% or whatever of some hypothetical revenue or is the whole 50/50 (or whatever they agreed on) split on TOP OF their contracts :? ? I mean, how do you split revenue that is yet to be generated?

hope this question makes sense....I just woke up....and I was thinking about it all night

dcfaithful wrote:

Still trying to understand what this trade exception is...

you and me both :crazy:

Traded Player Exception: If a team trades away a player with a higher salary than the player they acquire in return (we'll call this initial deal "Trade #1"), they receive what is called a Traded Player Exception, also known colloquially as a "Trade Exception". Teams with a trade exception have up to a year in which they can acquire more salary in other trades (Trade #2, #3, etc.) than they send away, as long as the gulf in salaries for Trade #2, #3, etc. are less than or equal to the difference in salary for Trade #1. This exception is particularly useful when teams trade draft picks straight-up for a player; since draft picks have no salary value, often the only way to get salaries to match is to use a trade exception, which allows trades to be made despite unbalanced salaries. It is also useful to compensate teams for losing free agents as they can do a sign and trade of that free agent to acquire a trade exception that can be used later. Note this exception is for single player trades only, though additional cash and draft picks can be part of the trade.