quoting from Mr. Coon's F&Q

A team can claim a waived player before he clears waivers only if the following is true:

The team has a trade exception for at least the player's salary

Amnestied players also fit into this rule.

the confusing math part someone else can figure out also from said F&Q.

The minimum bid for a partial waiver claim is whichever of the following is larger:

    The sum of the player's minimum salary for all remaining years of his contract, except for completely non-guaranteed seasons (seasons with 0% salary protection) which are ignored for this purpose.
    The sum of all non-guaranteed salary in partially-guaranteed seasons.

what does this have to do with the Celtics you ask? in theory we can sign and trade oh say Dooling, on a (i think) 1 year contract for x non guarantied dollars(do we have his bird rights? if not then it would be what ~3 million) along with $3,000,000. whoever we trade him to(im looking at you Sacramento) can waive him and net 3 mil for doing absolutely nothing. we would gain a ~3 mil trade exception that we could use to put a bid in on an amnestied player(assuming it wouldn't put us over the hard cap we have due to using the full MLE)

is this idea bad and/or full of holes? or is it a good idea?