What to do with the TPE?

[KIrving15]

The right move? Only stupid organizations trade unprotected picks. The good ones won't put themselves in the position of having to rationalize giving another team a #1 overall pick. There will always be stupid organizations to take advantage of, but mostly you will be getting picks that have some sort of protection to prevent such a disaster. The Clippers made a mistake signing BD to that contract and in trying to correct it, they made an even bigger one.

Why the hell are you compaining about the Clippers being stupid? They took the risk of giving us the #1...and they did, successfully! We win, they lost. We got Kyrie Irving/Baron Davis and they got Mo Williams and Moon. Get over it if you have a problem with what we got in the trade.

 

[Smooth]

I'm gonna be mad when so much has been made about how the Cavs could use the TPE and then Grant is going to let it expire and talk about it as a positive...

 

[MoFlo]

I'm gonna be mad when so much has been made about how the Cavs could use the TPE and then Grant is going to let it expire and talk about it as a positive...

I really have no idea what type of trades are out there or who he's talked to, of course, but I'd much rather just let it expire than use it just to say we used it.

I'd be more pissed if we used it stupidly than if we just let it expire.

 

[Tornicade]

Theres no positive from the TPE expiring. Its goes down as a wasted resource but it appears the front office did try to use it.

 

[Adam]

Theres no positive from the TPE expiring. Its goes down as a wasted resource but it appears the front office did try to use it.

personally i think having rudy gay eat up 40% of a hard cap being worse personally

 

[The Oi]

Grant is going to be getting off to a rough start if Thompson disappoints and he fails to use the TPE. Talk about getting yourself behind the 8 ball. I understand that some will make excuses for him and there may even be something to those excuses. This guy has a great deal of room to improve and a #4 and the TPE should be extremely valuable tools for that. If it ends up that he wasted both, its gonna add at least one year to the rebuild process.

 

[MDLT]

Using the TPE to bring in someone to lead us to mediocrity would be incredibly stupid. As MoFlo already said, you don't use it simply because you have the option. You only use it if it brings back pieces that make sense for where you want to go as a franchise.

 

[AMC]

Using the TPE to bring in someone to lead us to mediocrity would be incredibly stupid. As MoFlo already said, you don't use it simply because you have the option. You only use it if it brings back pieces that make sense for where you want to go as a franchise.

Exactly, what we should be getting with the TPE are expiring contracts (or close to expiring), along with young players and/or picks.

 

[GQinCtown]

Gonna take ya back to a quote from a while back...

Sunday, April 24 2011

Cavaliers GM Chris Grant hopes to be able to use the team's $14.5 million traded player exception before it expires on July 10. "I'm hopeful," he said. "I'd like to use it. Certainly with (Cavs owner) Dan (Gilbert) and his support in the final process, it would be great to use it. We don't want to take on a bad contract. We don't want to put ourselves in a spot where we lose flexibility, but certainly we are hopeful and we are going to try to use it and maybe put it into play in the draft or a few days after the draft, too." News-Herald

 

[Noonan]

Shot in the dark: TPE, Hickson for Anthony Morrow (owed $4 million in 2012, 13) and, most importantly, New Jersey's 2012 first rounder.

We help Jersey save some money and give them a young veteran who can be a decent third option. They give us a pick while saying that whoever is taken won't be as good as Hickson.

 

[Rich]

I really have no idea what type of trades are out there or who he's talked to, of course, but I'd much rather just let it expire than use it just to say we used it.

I'd be more pissed if we used it stupidly than if we just let it expire.

Could have used it on Troy Murphy and a late 1st round pick. But no, that was to little according to most. Apparently people had designs on some major deal with the TPE. And now, here we are so close to it expiring, and we are ok if it just expires..when we weren't ok to use it to get something small like a late 1st rounder?

I'll be upset if it expires, because I'll know it could have actually been put to some use w/o taking on any long term salary at all. It will have been a missed opportunity.

 

[Rich]

Shot in the dark: TPE, Hickson for Anthony Morrow (owed $4 million in 2012, 13) and, most importantly, New Jersey's 2012 first rounder.

We help Jersey save some money and give them a young veteran who can be a decent third option. They give us a pick while saying that whoever is taken won't be as good as Hickson.

That would be a terrible trade for New Jersey. Give away a first-round lottery pick to save a few million dollars and get Hickson? In a draft that is supposed to be extremely deep? New Jersey would be a laughing stock for making that deal.

Also, Randolph for Hickson is an even swap in many people's minds. So many have given up on Randolph, and I don't blame them, but he and Hickson have been in the league for the same amount of years.

 

[Mdog1]

Maybe we could trade the TPE for a 2012 expirer of equal value and a late pick. That way we pick up an asset for the draft and the TPE maintains its value by being an expirer.

 

[AMC]

Maybe we could trade the TPE for a 2012 expirer of equal value and a late pick. That way we pick up an asset for the draft and the TPE maintains its value by being an expirer.

What?

 

[UDcleveland]

What?

I think he means use it to take on someone's contract that expires at the end of the year. When I first thought about it, it made no sense because you'd have to convince someone to let go of a potentially valuable trade chip for nothing. But... would doing a deal like that provide the other team instant cap space? Almost like an advance on the expiring contract to get in on this year's free agents? I'm not sure how that all would work, but maybe.


Edit: For instance, let's say a team like Boston really wants to get in on the Marc Gasol sweepstakes (or David West, or whoever else). But they currently owe Ray Allen $10 Million for this coming year. They also owe Jermaine O'Neal over $6 Million. We offer to absorb one of those guys with the TPE, and get their first rounder out of it. And they open up some room to try to bring in a free agent. Again though, I don't know how this CBA situation will affect all of that.