Nets have a $1.26 million trade exception that came with the Marcus Williams trade. Since Williams was traded for pick(s), the Nets received the TE, which can be used to secure a player, using a pick, through the first anniversary of the trade, in July 2009. It can also be used to pick up a player off waivers if that player makes less than $1.36 million this season. TE's can't be combined with players in deals, but multi-player deals can be broken into pieces and the TE used in one part of the deal.
patrick ewing jr if only to knick fans faces. who is out there on waivers? i think we should wait till the full team is healthy b4 they make a move though. unless its simmons or hassel.
The Nets have a history of using most if not all their TE's. --In 2004, they picked up $15 million in TE's after the KMart and Kittles trades (both of which were the result of big salary players being traded away solely for draft picks...and TE's). They used the TE's to secure Cliff Robinson in a trade for picks with the Warriors, Eldon Campbell off waivers and Marc Jackson in a swap of second round picks with the Sixers...after killing the Shareef Abdur Rahim trade. They left very little on the table after those deals. (I've always thought the decision to pick up Campbell may have been attempt to "blackmail" the Pistons into giving up Darko Milicic, who the Nets were very high on.) --In 2006, they had more than $2.5 million in TE's from the Marc Jackson/Linton Johnson trade which they let lapse because they were close to the luxury tax and using them would have put them over. --In 2008, they picked up a $3.3 million TE in the Jason Kidd trade which they used to acquire Keyon Dooling for cash. They used the entire TE, according to reports. The Kidd was constructed in such a way that the Nets got one large TE rather than a couple of small ones. A team doesn't have to give up a pick when using a TE. The Nets can 1) trade the TE with a pick, as they did with Robinson; 2) agree to swap picks--first or second rounders--and the TE, as they did with Marc Jackson; 3) trade the TE with cash, as they did with Keyon Dooling; 4) use the TE to pick up a player off waivers as long as the player's salary is less than the TE--as they did with Campbell; or 5) trade the TE with the draft rights to Christian Drejer, which the Nets still retain despite his retirement. If they were able to do any of those things, it would provide the team with an additional benefit from the Marcus Williams trade. And with the Nets $8.5 million under the luxury tax, they have flexibility they didn't have in the past.
Here's a question: can the Nets trade Krstic and the TE together? Usually, players aren't supposed to be packaged with a TE but could that be an exception?
