Just curious but you can wander in any thread here for a couple of minutes and know the answer to these questions. Why take the time to go this route and not the route of understanding the cap? You don't have to read the CBA. You can pick up 90% in a matter of minutes. It literally controls EVERYTHING the Rockets do and makes most discussions/situations predictable with not only the Rockets but other teams. Give it a try. It is a fun addition to our shared interests of loving the Rockets. Here are a few that can help you get there. Some maybe a little off because quick and dirty. Cap is 102M. Teams can operate above the cap but are limited to 150%+100K n trades, vet min, mid level exception 8.4M and biannual exception 3.2M. Tax level at 129M. Then limited to TPMLE 5.3M and vet min and 125%+100K in trades. Luxury tax can make a team pay $4 for ever $1 over 129M if at $150M payroll. Players have cap holds until resigned by team that prevent cap space. Must have 12 players signed or cap holds in cap calculation Restricted free agents cannot be traded within a year of signing and base year compensation rules limit their value in trade to half their salary Played can be released through stretch provision for remaining salary split over twice the years remaining plus one. Ryno, 2 years remaining stretch to 5. Stretching Ryno horrible idea but example. Sign & trade hard caps the receiving team at apron level 129M. Fully non-guaranteed salary no longer counts in trade.
You can't trade a RFA. He is free to sign where he wants, period. We can match, but if we do, he can't be traded for a long time. People, please stop thinking he can be TRADED.
That is not accurate He can be sign and traded. He just needs to agree on the contract and destination.
how do we trade someone who is a free agent? i thought our options with capela were pretty much sign him to a long-term deal, or wait till he gets an offer from another team and decide whether or not to match.
It is not true. It’s always rare for a rfa to get sign and traded because they can’t be traded to a team that signs them to an offer sheet. However, sign and trades aren’t dead. We were looking to do one just last off-season.
Not true. As long as the RFA hasn't already signed an offer sheet then they can be sign and traded. The difference is that there is no longer an advantage to the player to be sign and traded. It's still legal but there's less motivation for a player or the other team to agree to it.
we won't get equal value in a S&T or any deal where we agree not to match. we can't afford to lose him for nothing so we have to match any offer even max. he's ours for at least one more year.
