I think it’s an interesting thought experiment, so I have a couple of questions for the posters above:
If a player who is on one of these neo supermax-lite deal - i.e. is a supermax player who waives their NTC and is traded - should that player continue to count toward the 2 designated veterans per team cap?
So, right now, the Celtics cannot trade for Dame because ostensibly we want to give Tatum and Brown the super max. under your proposed situation, once he’s traded, that’s no longer the case.
Two: is his contract value the new contract or the original contract for cap and trade purposes?