No thanks. I don't see Reaves becoming as good as Brogdon is now.
Plus we'd be hard-capped at the first apron.
Why would we be hard capped with A Reaves but not with Brogdon?
If you sign somebody via sign-and-trade you're capped at the first apron, around $6 million above the tax.
So they are tryin to stop teams above the luxury tax from doing sign and trades. Making life more difficult for them. Okay.
I am not clear on what hard capping means exactly. What does the hard capped mean?
I presume you lose your MLE. Are you limited to only signing minimum contract guys? Are you able to resign your own guys beyond that number? Say re-sign G Williams.
And it hurts your trade flexability too, doesn't it? It stops you from being allowed / able to take back contracts worth more than you are sending out.
This particular rule was in place during the last CBA, as well.
If a team S&Ts a player (or uses the Full MLE, or the BAE) it's spending cannot exceed the "apron" at any point during the season. The apron used to be defined as $6 million above the luxury tax, but I think it has been adjusted slightly upward over time.
The "second apron" is new. It's at $17.5 million over the luxury tax. It's being "phased in", so I'm not sure what provisions are in place in 2024 versus 2025. But that's where the parade of horribles starts: no taking in more money than you send out in trade, no aggregating salary in trades (i.e., two lower salaries to match a large salary), no signing players using anything other than the minimum / second round exceptions, etc.
And, I read that if teams are over the second apron 3 out of 4 seasons, their first rounder (starting with 2030) gets sent to the end of the round?