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Al Jefferson and #12 to Cavaliers?

A-Train (old)

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Before I say anything this is a not a real trade rumor, it is just an trade idea that I came up with after some re-search.

Jazz trade Al Jefferson and #12 to Cavaliers for a $13,000,000 Trade Exception.

Here me out on this first, last year around the time the Jazz got Al Jefferson from the Timberwolves, the Cavaliers were very interested in Al Jefferson. They were offered Jefferson for a trade exception straight up last year by the Timberwolves, but the Cavaliers said they needed an extra asset.

Jazz get rid of $13,000,000 in salary for the #12 pick pretty much, the trade exception could be used in the future to pick up a player with a big salary for free basically, the Cavaliers would do it since Jefferson's deal is better than Hamilton's but the Cavs wanted the #8 too, since Jefferson's deal is better they get a worse pick #12 which is not that much of a downgrade. They could use it in a deal similar to the one propsed earlier or they could keep it and have the #1, #4, and #12 picks in the draft for the future.

One big thing this trade would be good for besides the trade exception is it would free up room for Enes Kanter if the Jazz were to pick him at #3, that is unless Derrick Williams is available in that case it is just getting rid of a lot of salary and freeing up cap space.
 
If we do draft Kanter I'd rather see him ease into his role - so I'd rather have Jefferson there for at least the coming year...

- Front court: Start Favors & Jefferson. Kanter significant minutes off the bench. Start him with Favors 3/4 through next season.

- Experiment with Millsap at the 3. If DWill_2 can do it - so can he.

- Draft Jimmer to play behind Harris.

For those reasons I'd say no to the above trade.

- KOC has said numerous times that you don't learn by losing and that they're not rebuilding, rather, they're retooling.

For those reasons I'd say KOC would say no to the above trade as well.
 
Best trade idea ever. I wish you were our team GM we would win championships left and right.
 
Before I say anything this is a not a real trade rumor, it is just an trade idea that I came up with after some re-search.

Jazz trade Al Jefferson and #12 to Cavaliers for a $13,000,000 Trade Exception.

Here me out on this first, last year around the time the Jazz got Al Jefferson from the Timberwolves, the Cavaliers were very interested in Al Jefferson. They were offered Jefferson for a trade exception straight up last year by the Timberwolves, but the Cavaliers said they needed an extra asset.

Jazz get rid of $13,000,000 in salary for the #12 pick pretty much, the trade exception could be used in the future to pick up a player with a big salary for free basically, the Cavaliers would do it since Jefferson's deal is better than Hamilton's but the Cavs wanted the #8 too, since Jefferson's deal is better they get a worse pick #12 which is not that much of a downgrade. They could use it in a deal similar to the one propsed earlier or they could keep it and have the #1, #4, and #12 picks in the draft for the future.

One big thing this trade would be good for besides the trade exception is it would free up room for Enes Kanter if the Jazz were to pick him at #3, that is unless Derrick Williams is available in that case it is just getting rid of a lot of salary and freeing up cap space.

We should trade Favors to make room for Kanter too.
 
My opinion(s) on Jefferson are well-known, but even I think this is a poor trade.

Now Jefferson for Hibbert and a massive trade exception/money under the cap to get a free agent? Now let's talk.
 
Hibbert's game tempts me to agree with you numb, but his asthma with the thought of 41 games in SLC and 2 in denver? ---I'd pass.
 
My opinion(s) on Jefferson are well-known, but even I think this is a poor trade.

Now Jefferson for Hibbert and a massive trade exception/money under the cap to get a free agent? Now let's talk.

When the biggest Jefferson hater says a trade giving away Jefferson is bad, then you know it absolutely ****** sucks.
 
Why trade for a trade exception right before a CBA? What happens if they don't exist after the negotiations are done? You gave away a 18/10 & #12 for nothing?

Also giving up #12 is giving up the chance pretty much to land Jimmer. He is worth millions more to the Jazz than anyone else just on jersey & ticket sales from the locals.
 
We need to trade away the whole team for trade exceptions. Then we draft Jimmer with the #3 pick, Jackson Emery with the 12th pick. Then we convince the whole BYU team to leave school and sign with the Jazz as undrafted free agents. Championships would be easy.
 
We need to trade away the whole team for trade exceptions. Then we draft Jimmer with the #3 pick, Jackson Emery with the 12th pick. Then we convince the whole BYU team to leave school and sign with the Jazz as undrafted free agents. Championships would be easy.

Yeah and in the NBA, Brandon Davies would not be suspended.
 
You cant trade "trade exceptions". They are only used to absorb contracts of players that are to high for the teams salary. This is similar to the Al Jefferson trade, we got a trade exception because we did a sign and trade with Carlos Boozer. Minny never got a trade exception back from us for Al Jefferson, they got a 1st round pick and Koufos. The Trade Exception was just used to absorb Jefferson's contract since we were already above the salary cap. So in your trade, we could clear 13 million dollars of salary cap but we wouldn't be receiving a trade exception in return.


I would only trade Jefferson and 12 straight up for the 1st Pick and hope to draft both Irving and D-Will
 
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You cant trade "trade exceptions". They are only used to absorb contracts of players that are to high for the teams salary. This is similar to the Al Jefferson trade, we got a trade exception because we did a sign and trade with Carlos Boozer. Minny never got a trade exception back from us for Al Jefferson, they got a 1st round pick and Koufos. The Trade Exception was just used to absorb Jefferson's contract since we were already above the salary cap. So in your trade, we could clear 13 million dollars of salary cap but we wouldn't be receiving a trade exception in return.


I would only trade Jefferson and 12 straight up for the 1st Pick and hope to draft both Irving and D-Will

While it's true that you don't "trade" trade exceptions, generating a trade exception is a natural consequence of any deal that dumps salary w/o receiving any in return, unless the giving team is already under the cap. So in the instance of the Jefferson deal, we used the Boozer exception to get him while Minnesota gave up Jefferson and took back a very small amount of salary, thus generating a trade exception worth the difference between Jefferson and Koufas' salaries.
 
While it's true that you don't "trade" trade exceptions, generating a trade exception is a natural consequence of any deal that dumps salary w/o receiving any in return, unless the giving team is already under the cap. So in the instance of the Jefferson deal, we used the Boozer exception to get him while Minnesota gave up Jefferson and took back a very small amount of salary, thus generating a trade exception worth the difference between Jefferson and Koufas' salaries.


But thats called salary cap not trade exception worth..basically we would dump jefferson's contract to free up salary cap. We will not get a trade exception. If we had a trade exception from that trade then we could sign a free agent in the offseason and then use this so called "trade exception" to absorb another players contract which is NOT TRUE.
 
But thats called salary cap not trade exception worth..basically we would dump jefferson's contract to free up salary cap. We will not get a trade exception. If we had a trade exception from that trade then we could sign a free agent in the offseason and then use this so called "trade exception" to absorb another players contract which is NOT TRUE.

Wrong. When one team trades a player to another team and does not take back equivalent salary, meaning the recipient of the surplus has cap space, then the other team gets a TPE in return. Utah trading Jefferson to a team with cap space and not taking back equivalent salary would result in a TPE for Utah that could be used to acquire existing contracts.
 
But thats called salary cap not trade exception worth..basically we would dump jefferson's contract to free up salary cap. We will not get a trade exception. If we had a trade exception from that trade then we could sign a free agent in the offseason and then use this so called "trade exception" to absorb another players contract which is NOT TRUE.

I'm not entirely certain what you're trying to communicate but I think Franklin summed it up rather simply.
 
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