There isn't enough $$$ on the cap sheet to give him the prorated vet minimum. The team has to play 37 games before they can do that.
I always thought CP would make a good coach when he retires. However, it looks like he doesn't know how to talk to people without pissing them off. You can get away with that when you're a superstar, but not when you're a scrub. Fred Van Vleet will make a good coach.
Btw it seems like he wasn't waived. He was just told to go home. Still on the roster. So technically he could still get either traded or waived. Or they experience the backlash and change their minds lol the NBA community is kind of disgusted by this. It's such a bad look. I don't even like the guy but felt like this was a brutal way to handle an in-house dispute during a guy's retirement season that he just announced as a Clippers legend.
Clippers are in an almost identical position to the Rockets, they're hard capped at the 1st Apron because they split the non-taxpayer MLE between Brook Lopez and Bradley Beal, and only have around $1.2M in space remaining for the rest of the year. NBA rules say they can't drop below 14 players on the roster (not including two-ways) for more than two weeks. Like the Rockets, they don't have the space to sign even a minimum contract until mid-January. So they need to keep him on the roster until either they're able to salary dump him with some cash considerations (much like how the Rockets dumped Carmelo onto the Bulls) after December 15th, or waive him in January when a rest-of-season contract for a replacement player is prorated down enough. The salary dump trade seems like the most likely scenario, as sad as it will be. Don't even think it will cost very much, certainly a lot less than buying shares in Aspiration cost Ballmer/Wong.
