Gay, Acy & Gray to SAC for Vasquez, Patterson, Hayes & Salmons (Augustin waived)

[DanH]

Exactly.

All about when his team option deadline is

June 30th FYI.

[mcHAPPY]

That and the Raps already used their amnesty on Kleiza this past offseason.

They'll either trade Salmons or keep him and then buy him out for $1M in the offseason (since only $1M of his salary next season is guaranteed). I suppose they could also use him as a trade chip during the draft or offseason.

Exactly.

All about when his team option deadline is

[CalgaryRapsFan]

Just saw on twitter that we can't amnesty Salmons because u can only amnesty players on your team prior to the end of the lockout. As per Marc Stein

That and the Raps already used their amnesty on Kleiza this past offseason.

They'll either trade Salmons or keep him and then buy him out for $1M in the offseason (since only $1M of his salary next season is guaranteed). I suppose they could also use him as a trade chip during the draft or offseason.

[DanH]

Just saw on twitter that we can't amnesty Salmons because u can only amnesty players on your team prior to the end of the lockout. As per Marc Stein

Yeah. Almost no one in the league is still amnesty eligible. Perkins and Boozer are the only two who are still realistic options.

[Uncle_Si]

Just saw on twitter that we can't amnesty Salmons because u can only amnesty players on your team prior to the end of the lockout. As per Marc Stein

[mcHAPPY]

Salmons is going to tear his ACL to fail his physical. GOD DOESNT WANT ME IN TORONTO!

*ACL tear*

Raps would still sign off on it

[Nilanka]

Arco Arena back in the early 2000's when the Kings were winning and they had some great teams back then was like the Oracle Arena of today. They were crazy loud.

And that team was crazy fun to watch.

[The Great One]

Sacramento is definitely loaded with talent -- like seriously loaded with talent. Their problem is more so the make up of their players. They need leadership; not sure if they got one in Gay. But they are definitely talented. We'll see if their coach is any good because he has a difficult job getting THOMAS -- McLEMORE -- THORNTON -- GAY -- COUSINS -- WILLIAMS to work without any veteran leadership elsewhere.

I'd rank Kings fans up there with Portland. They're just under the Bulls & Warriors fans territory.

Arco Arena back in the early 2000's when the Kings were winning and they had some great teams back then was like the Oracle Arena of today. They were crazy loud.

[Rapstor4Life]

Salmons is going to tear his ACL to fail his physical. GOD DOESNT WANT ME IN TORONTO!

*ACL tear*

[DanH]

Additionally, another TPE was created for Sacramento for Vasquez ($2,150,188), since Patterson covered Gray & Acy (according to the ESPN Trade Machine).

Yep.

[CalgaryRapsFan]

For those wondering how this works.

You'd have to structure the deal as two deals - Gay for X and Gray and Acy for Y. Acy is a minimum deal, so he doesn't count as incoming salary, so it is easy to balance from SAC's point of view. That allows the Raptors to absorb 150% of their outgoing. So Gray and Acy make 3.5M, meaning the outgoing salary for the Kings has to be at most 5.5M. Vasquez and Patterson would fit that at 5.3M.

That leaves Gay (17.9M) for Salmons and Hayes (13.3M).

Additionally, another TPE was created for Sacramento for Vasquez ($2,150,188), since Patterson covered Gray & Acy (according to the ESPN Trade Machine).

[DanH]

The Rudy Gay trade also created a trade exception for Toronto due to more salary going out than coming back.

It is $4.583M.

In the new age luxury tax, it could prove valuable.

It is large enough to really help facilitate a trade or it could save a luxury tax team upwards of $10M in taxes or it could get a team under the luxury tax saving them up to $7M in tax and getting them a share of the revenue sharing (which should be significant with BKN and NY payrolls this year).

Another use could be like Portland last year taking on Thomas Robinson while giving up no salary.

For those wondering how this works.

You'd have to structure the deal as two deals - Gay for X and Gray and Acy for Y. Acy is a minimum deal, so he doesn't count as incoming salary, so it is easy to balance from SAC's point of view. That allows the Raptors to absorb 150% of their outgoing. So Gray and Acy make 3.5M, meaning the outgoing salary for the Kings has to be at most 5.5M. Vasquez and Patterson would fit that at 5.3M.

That leaves Gay (17.9M) for Salmons and Hayes (13.3M).

[phiLLy]

The Rudy Gay trade also created a trade exception for Toronto due to more salary going out than coming back.

It is $4.583M.

In the new age luxury tax, it could prove valuable.

It is large enough to really help facilitate a trade or it could save a luxury tax team upwards of $10M in taxes or it could get a team under the luxury tax saving them up to $7M in tax and getting them a share of the revenue sharing (which should be significant with BKN and NY payrolls this year).

Another use could be like Portland last year taking on Thomas Robinson while giving up no salary.

Interesting. I can see what MU took this deal then.

By Trade Deadline...we could be very interesting players. Taking on some good contracts, and being able to facilitate trades, hmm.

[mcHAPPY]

Trade Exception created!

The Rudy Gay trade also created a trade exception for Toronto due to more salary going out than coming back.

It is $4.583M.

In the new age luxury tax, it could prove valuable.

It is large enough to really help facilitate a trade or it could save a luxury tax team upwards of $10M in taxes or it could get a team under the luxury tax saving them up to $7M in tax and getting them a share of the revenue sharing (which should be significant with BKN and NY payrolls this year).

Another use could be like Portland last year taking on Thomas Robinson while giving up no salary.

[Superjudge]

I saw the red hat, tought Acy was rocking a raps cap at first