Was reading this about trades, so they can be moved in the right circumstance, paired with other salary.
https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2018/02/four-common-misconceptions-about-nba-trades.html
There are a number of rules in the CBA that limit a team’s ability to reacquire a player after trading him. For instance, the
Bucks weren’t able to re-sign
Greg Monroe after the
Suns bought him out last week, since Milwaukee traded Monroe to Phoenix earlier this season. The
Celtics currently aren’t able to reacquire
Avery Bradley in a trade, since they dealt him to Detroit at the start of the 2017/18 league year.
However, even though the Celtics and
Pistons can’t currently acquire Bradley from the
Clippers, the veteran guard
is eligible to be traded again this week. The CBA only prevents the Clips from aggregating Bradley’s salary with another player’s salary in a trade for two months after acquiring him.
What exactly does that mean? Well, Bradley is currently earning $8,808,989. So if the Clippers want to acquire a player earning $20MM by packaging Bradley with
Austin Rivers (whose salary is $11,825,000), they wouldn’t be able to do so, since Bradley’s salary would have to be aggregated with Rivers’ to match that $20MM cap figure. But if the Clips simply want to acquire a player earning $9MM, sending out Bradley on his own would be fine, since his salary isn’t been aggregated with another player’s salary in that scenario.
This doesn’t mean that Bradley has to be the only outgoing piece in any trade involving him. For instance, if the Clippers wanted to trade Bradley and
DeAndre Jordan ($22,642,350) for a player earning $25MM, that would be okay. Jordan’s salary on its own is large enough to “match” a player earning $25MM, so Bradley’s salary doesn’t need to be aggregated with Jordan’s, even though it’d be a two-for-one deal.