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Whatever happened to the $5 million trade-cap exception from the Hakeem trade?

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by dTown333, Feb 24, 2002.

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  1. dTown333

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    When the Rockets gave up Hakeem for a simple draft pick, the only incentive in the deal to me seemed that they were recieving a $5 million or so exception to the salary cap difference clause when making deals. The way I saw it was if the Rockets wanted to trade a player with a small contract (Kenny Thomas?) for a player with a larger contract, they could use the clause to avoid having to come up with cap fillers as long as the other player's salary wasn't more than 5 million bigger than ours. Maybe we used it in that Kevin Willis deal, but I never heard anything about it...have y'all?
     
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    I'm pretty sure we used that exception when we traded Anderson for Rice.
     
    #2 goophers, Feb 24, 2002
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    didn't rice come after hakeem was already traded? i can't remember for sure, but that would make sense. i thought that was a sort of sign and trade deal though, with anderson ending up making around what rice makes...???
     
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    Teams can't have cap room and exceptions.

    We were under the cap, and renounced our exceptions, so they turned into pure cap space.
     
    #4 NIKEstrad, Feb 24, 2002
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    I think part of it was used in the Willis trade. We were the middle men who facillitated (Clutch - please put in a spell checker) the trade. Isn't tht why we got Willis for nothing. I think the rest expired.

    If somebody professes to know better, I would tend to believe them.
     
    #5 Pat, Feb 25, 2002
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    Almost positive it was used in the Willis trade.
     
    #6 francis 4 prez, Feb 25, 2002
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    it was used to drop below the cap to sign Taylor.
     
    #7 Looogie, Feb 25, 2002
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    No, that was the injury exception from Mo.
     
    #8 Looogie, Feb 25, 2002
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