While the CBA does not let Paul Pierce renegotiate his contract to change the dollar amounts, as I understand it, a player is able to agree to change the guaranteed portion of the contract. For example, Hedo Turkoglu agreed to make the final year of his contract partially guaranteed to facilitate his trade back to Orlando.
While I would expect the league to not allow the Celtics to increase Pierce's guarantee so that they can waive him and re-sign him for the minimum at an effective higher salary, since that seems like a blatant attempt to circumvent the salary cap, I wonder if the CBA permits Pierce to agree to change the date on when his contract becomes fully guaranteed if it would give Ainge more time to try and make a deal. I feel as if there is a precedent for doing this, but I am drawing a blank. Does anyone remember a similar case?