Simmons Trade Idea: BOS/SAC/LAC

[Celtics2021]

Keith Smith chiming in on this.

Keith Smith
@KeithSmithNBA
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This trade isn't even close to legal. Clippers are currently about $1.3M under their first-apron hard cap. This trade has them taking on over $10M in salary.

I once again recommend using our Trade Machine on
@spotrac
! We also have an Apple app version!

That said, I think Spotrac also has a flaw in their app with teams between the first and second aprons (like the Celtics).  Isn?t the rule that we cannot take back more than 110% of outgoing salary?  It gave me an error earlier today when I was trying to get Sabonis because I was taking in more than was going out, even though it was within the 110% rule.

Fanspo trade machine has BOS restricted to only 100% of outgoing also, not 110%.  I don't know what the CBA says specifically though.

Transition Traded Player Exception. During the 2023-24
Salary Cap Year only, and subject to the rules set forth in
Section 2(e) above: a Team may use the ?Transition Traded
Player Exception? to replace one (1) or more Traded Players
with one (1) or more Replacement Players whose Player
Contracts are acquired simultaneously and whose post-trade
Salaries for the 2023-24 Salary Cap Year, in the aggregate,
are no more than an amount equal to one hundred ten
percent (110%) of the pre-trade Salaries of the Traded
Player(s), plus $250,000

The 110% rule was just for 2023-2024 it looks.

Was it?  This article from this June by NBC Sports Boston says otherwise:

https://www.nbcsportsboston.com/nba/second-apron-nba-cba-explained/716143/?amp=1

What are the second apron penalties in the NBA?

These are the key penalties for teams in the first apron and second apron:

First apron:

Sign-and-trades are not permitted if the player acquired keeps the team above the apron.
Cannot sign players who were waived during the regular season if their salary was above the $12.2 million mid-level exception.
Salary matching in trades has to be within 110% instead of the 125% teams in good standing get.
Second apron:

Includes all first-apron penalties
Cannot have access to the MLE in free agency or absorbing contracts.
Cannot trade first-round picks from seven years out.
Cannot use trade exceptions from previous years.
Cannot use cash in trades.
First round pick moves straight to the end of the first round if the team stays in the second apron for three of five years.

You would think the media outlet part-owned by the Celtics explaining why the Celtics were massively cutting payroll would get that detail correct.

[Celtics4ever]

The C's say no for sure.  Comparing Monk vs Simons, I think Simons is the better (younger) player.

I kind of agree with you, but it is not a bad trade by any measure.   Monk has improved a lot but his shooting is still suspect at 33% from the three.