Interested News: The first trade season under the oppressive new administration of the

The first trade season under the oppressive new administration of the…..

A primer on the Boston Celtics

trade deadline
An overview of the numerous things the Celtics cannot do, as well as what they can accomplish before and after February 8.

The first trade season under the oppressive new administration of the

accord on collective bargaining. The new CBA’s severe anti-Celtics bias doesn’t imply the Celtics are powerless, but as the deadline approaches, we’ll have to contend with some new limitations.

We’ll begin by going over the trade regulations in general (including the new ones), followed by a breakdown of the Celtics’ tradeable assets, and lastly, some possible targets for them.

The NBA trade rules are getting more and more complicated.

The NBA’s CBA and the trading regulations have layers, akin to Shrek (or an onion), but let’s start with the fundamentals. The salary cap in the NBA is a soft cap. Put differently, you can review it (I apologise in advance for the excessive amount of times I’m going to use the phrase “in other words” in this piece). The Celtics are, according to Spotrac.com and really everything in this story according to the heroes at Spotrac, about a cool $51.3 million over the cap this season.

Being over the cap restricts the way you can structure deals, but it also important for other reasons that we shall cover later. Put simply, teams that are over the cap are required to balance the salaries of the players they are trading for and the players whose salaries are going out.

Still, it’s not a dollar-for-dollar match. If not, trading would be very difficult as you would only be able to exchange for players that have the exact same amount of money as the player you are giving up. Rather, as per the previous CBA, teams were allowed to retain up to 125% of their pay that was paid out. For teams who make more than a specific amount of money, the new CBA has regrettably changed this. The first apron, as it is lovingly called, is that threshold.

According to the CBA’s design, the limits become more severe the more money you spend. Naturally, the cap itself is the initial threshold. After surpassing the soft cap of $136 million. Without making an exception, free agents cannot be signed. Once you cross the $165 million luxury tax threshold, you must pay the league $1 for every dollar above the tax line. Then you reach the $172 million first apron and the $183 million second apron. There are distinct limitations at both aprons. Since the Celtics are now well past the second apron and have total payroll of roughly $187 million, we don’t need to worry about which apron each restriction applies to.

For trading purposes, the most significant apron restriction is that the Cs are not allowed to recoup 125% of their outgoing income. Rather, their options are restricted to 110% (which will drop to 100% on July 1st of this offseason and remain there going forward).

The biggest apron constraint for trading purposes is that the Cs cannot recover 125% of their outgoing income. Instead, they can only choose from 110% (which will decrease to 100% on July 1st of this offseason and stay there thereafter).

The war chest of Brad Stevens

Firstly, these are all of the contracts that the Celtic has on file (according to Spotrac):

As you combine a few of the end-of-the-bench players, you’ll see that you can actually put together a fairly respectable sum of money. When you combine the salaries of Jordan Walsh, Svi Mykhailiuk, and Lamar Stevens, you can get about $5.16 million in tradeable money. That implies we can return a player who is now making about $5.676 million. For section 3, let’s remember that figure.

We must solve the PPP, or the Payton Pritchard Problem, before continuing. Pritchard’s contract is known as a “Poison Pill Contract” because he was given a rookie extension this offseason. It sounds far cooler than it actually is. In other words, Pritchard’s salary counts differently for the Celtics than it does for the team acquiring him in a trade, unlike in the Sam Hauser case. His salary is $4 million paid to the Celtics and $6.8 million (average) paid to the team that acquires him.

of both his current pay and all the years of the extension). Trading Pritchard is extremely difficult, but not unfeasible. A team with financial space has an easier time of it because they can simply take the extra cash and return a player earning up to $4.4 million to the Celtics. You’re not alone if you’re lost. The key observation is that, in comparison to some of the other bench players, Pritchard is significantly less likely to move as a result of this.