Correct me if I'm wrong but Bradley wouldn't be able to be signed and traded until after FA opens on July 1st. Meaning he couldn't be dealt on draft night.
You can, or at least they use to. It's usually a future S&T after date. So they have to wait for July 1st for the deal to become official. I think Bogans had to do it last year, but at a later date in the Nets trade.
And that's what I was unclear about.
I know technically sign and trades can't be made official til after July but I thought per our trade with Brooklyn last year and the Bogans S/T, that teams can agree in principle on draft night and just have to wait til after July 1st for it be official.
I still don't know how we got away with talking about Bogans during the draft. That might have slipped through the league's rule cracks. Because it says free agents, or upcoming free agents aren't allowed to be to spoken to until July 1st and not allowed to actually be signed until the salary cap is officially set, usually a week and a half later.
If you remember, it wasn't actually clear Bogans was going to be included until after a little later. The general terms were understood (KG, Pierce, Wallace, Humphries, lots of picks), but at one point Reggie Evans was going to be involved, Tomo Shengaila, Courtney Lee, etc. I think the Nets and Celtics knew that Bogans would likely accept that amount of money to make the deal work, but they had alternatives, since his inclusion wasn't critical to a deal, only peripheral to the main deal. Presumably AB would be a major piece, and is why it wouldn't work the same way.
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