*warning: random, unlikely trade idea* CBA experts pls help

*warning: the trade idea I'm going to post is a random, risky, and extremely unlikely trade to happen. Nevertheless, I feel it's of enough value to discuss whether this trade is at least conceptually legal and believe it could be a possible exploits under some rare situations. if you are looking for a trade rumor or plausible trade scenario, this probably is not the thread you hoped.*





I was thinking about the amnesity rule and its possible implications to the league when this idea jumped out randomly: in order to prevent exploits, the amnesity rule stated that you can not re-sign the player you just cutted until the contract expires. what about, then, we trade the player to an under-the-cap team, have them cut him for us, and re-sign the player?

before everyone jumps all over me with questions like who, why and how, let me try to explain my proposed trade a bit more before we get into the long discussion of how likely this is going to happen.

unlikely trade scenario:

step 1: we reach a wink wink deal with juwan howard about him coming back for vet's min. when he gets cutted.
step 2: we trade Juwan Howard and 3 mil cash and some draft choice to an under-the-cap team like NO.

step 3: we sign player NoName to a non-garanteed minimum contract
step 4: we trade player NoName and 3 mil cash to NO
step 5: NO cuts player NoName
step 6: repeat step 3-5 ten times, so we send a lot of cash to NO, in essence paying the whole Juwan contract for NO

step 7: NO cuts Juwan under the amnesity rule
step 8: we sigh Juwan back for vet. min.


logics of this who bunch of crazy trades:

why Juwan does it: well, he gets paid. and he gets a vet. minimun contract on top of what he has.

why player NoName does it: well, who cares... I'm sure we can find some player willing to facilitate the trade like that for small changes. Hell, CD can sign his father as a FA and trade him to NO and let NO cut him...

why rox does it: well, this basically increases rox's luxTax threshold by about 7 or 8 million in the next couple of years. Although rox effectively still pays the same amount (or a little more even) of salaries to Juwan, it now becomes more feasible for them to use MLE again next season to aquire another player without getting into luxTax territory.

why NO does it: well, in case their plan is standing pat and save money, they might as well use their idle cap room to get some draft choices. This whole trade is not going to cost them a penny anyway.


AND YES YES... I know this trade is not gonna happen for so many reasons. but let's examine the reason why it won't happen, shall we?


reason 1: Juwan might boozer us after he gets cut and go for the highest bid as a FA
reason 2: NO might decide not to cut Juwan and have him play for them for the next whatever years
reason 3: NO might not want to tie up their cap room for so long just for a couple of draft choices...


so the question now becomes, under what circumstances would this kind of trade becomes possible?

condition #1: the player that's going to be cut wants to go back and play for the team -- and therefore will take the minimun contract and come back
condition #2: the cooperating team does not want to break promise to keep the right of this player -- and therefore will cut him as promised
condition #3: the player does not mess up the cooperating team's cap situation for too long for them to become not worth it.


now, obviously Juwan Howard does not satisfy these conditions very well. but there is one player possibly does... Finley.

#1: mavs probably is still finley's first choice if they are willing to sign him back although I can't be 100% sure on this one
#2: teams like NO won't mess up their reputation around the league for a 32 year old finley
#3: although the contract is quite large, finley's contract is only for 2 more years (or is it 3?). If NO is planning to stay as a cheap team for the next 2 season and rely on draft picks, the timeline could fit.

with this in mind, would this trade scenario becomes plausible?

1. mavs trade finley and draft picks to NO.
2. mavs trade non-garanteed contracts to NO so they can give NO the 3 million cash throw in enough times to pay for finley's buyout
3. NO cuts finley under amnesity rule
4. mavs resign finley with vet. min so they save the $51 mil luxTax money without having to lose him.



my questions:
Are this sequence of trades legal under CBA?
Is there something I didn't remember that would make them illegal?
Would this be charged as circumvanting the CBA and be disallowed?
If they are legal, would this kind of loophole have any meaningful impact on the league FAs?
Will there be any impact on rox FA signings?


can some CBA and cap experts help me here?

 

well, too be honest, I myself is speachless, dazed and most of all bored


I just hope my first thread in more than 6 month is not THAT bad that ppl starts call my head for wasting everyone's time.

well, just to be safe, apologies to all if this idea is really meaningless...