What's our cap situation looking like?

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To acquire a player with the TPE means to do a sign-and-trade. To do a sign-and-trade, you need to be under the cap, no?

You can acquire a player already under contract using a TPE.  One use of the TPE would be to acquire a contract from a team looking to clear cap space to sign a free agent.

A sign-and-trade hard-caps you at the apron.

thanks. and just to confirm in my mind, this example you cite is exactly what ainge did with cleveland to acquire zeller. correct?

so hypothetically, he could also do this again using the rondo tpe.

The thing is... if we trade Green for an expiring and have something like 21 in potential cap space, we'd probably end up renouncing the TPE.   What good does the TPE do us if we plan on using the 21 mil in cap space?

Depends. Is the TPE an actual cap hold?

Yes.