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<p>After it seems to be done yesterday, this whole thing is getting more and more complicated as ort seems as of right now.</p>

<p>First of all it makes a big difference if the deal is done on July 6th cap wise or at the end of July when the #4 pick included in this deal has 30 days in between signing the rookie contract and the trade date.</p>

<p>It gets more complicated when AD doesn&rsquo;t waive his 15% trade kicker which might be a real scenario according to Woj and others.</p>

<p>All in all this could end up with the Lakers having difficulties matching the trade value of Davis contract and/or having a max contract slot open to sign someone like Walker, Kawhi or Butler.</p>

<p>This whole thing is very complicated and if not working perfectly the Lakers way, they might as well need to trade away Wagner and Bonga to get into that max slot. This btw is also a problem cause they just traded away all the picks in the AD deal and I ask myself how any team would/should do this while not getting picks in return while adding their contracts…</p>

<p>Here is a text via Ballislife from CBA specialist Jeff Siegel regarding this issue. It very much seems like Pelinka and this whole Lakers organisation is a bunch of incompetent idiots if they had no agreement with Griffin and the Pels regarding the timing of this date AND if they aren’t informed by Davis and his agent that AD will definitely waive his 4.4 million trade kicker BEFORE they traded away their entire roster and their picks and swap right for the next 5 to 6 years. This might very well go down as the worst trade ever assembled if they don’t have enough cap space for a max guy combined with all the draft pick swaps in this deal. </p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>There are two ways to do this trade, from a timing perspective. Either the Lakers and Pelicans can execute the deal on July 6, or wait until the end of July. Moving forward with it on July 6 means that Los Angeles has to use cap space to take in Davis. Using cap space to trade for a player means a team can ignore the usual salary-matching rules and simply use the space available to them to trade for the player. The Lakers will have more than enough cap space to cover Davis’s salary because Ball, Ingram, and Hart will be off the team and off their books.

The second path is to wait until late July and complete the trade as an over-the-cap team. This would mean holding onto Ball, Ingram, Hart and the picks they’re sending to New Orleans for the month of July and behaving, from a cap space perspective, as if that trade isn’t happening. 

In this scenario, they’d have the cap space they would have had if the Davis deal wasn’t happening at all, about $32.5 million. Then, after they used all their space, the trade would be made official, but this time the Lakers would have to abide by the salary matching rules, since they wouldn’t have the cap space to just take Davis. Matching Davis’s new $31.2 million salary (after his trade bonus, he counts at the new value in a trade) requires the Lakers to cobble together at least $24.8 million in salary, since teams at that level are allowed to take back up to 125 percent (plus $100,000) of the salary they send out. Ball, Ingram, and Hart don’t make enough money by themselves to add up to $24.8 million, but adding in the No. 4 overall pick’s salary makes the math work. The issue there is that draft picks can’t be traded until 30 days after they’ve signed their first contract, which would push the trade to late July at the earliest.

The Lakers and Pelicans have decided to move forward with the trade on July 6, rather than waiting until late July 30, which will eliminate about $8.9 million of the Lakers’ available cap space this summer, leaving them with $23.7 million.

 

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