Six NBA Teams Combine Middleton, Collins Trades to Unlock Cap Relief in $68.6 Million Signings
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Updated · hoopsrumors.com · Jul 8
Six NBA Teams Combine Middleton, Collins Trades to Unlock Cap Relief in $68.6 Million Signings
2 articles · Updated · hoopsrumors.com · Jul 8
Summary
ESPN detailed an unofficial six-team NBA trade that would send Khris Middleton to Washington on a three-year, $17.6 million deal and John Collins to Detroit on a three-year, $51 million contract.
The package rolls together deals involving the Wizards, Mavericks, Grizzlies, Pistons, Bucks and Clippers so teams can satisfy salary-matching rules and preserve key trade exceptions instead of burning them in separate transactions.
Dallas would keep its full $20.8 million Anthony Davis traded-player exception by aggregating Middleton and AJ Johnson to take in Santi Aldama, while Memphis would avoid using its $28.9 million Jaren Jackson Jr. exception to acquire Isaiah Stewart.
Detroit would use Caris LeVert's $14.8 million outgoing salary to match Collins and create new exceptions tied to Stewart and Marcus Sasser, while Washington uses an expiring $5.34 million exception to absorb Middleton and then creates a new one for D'Angelo Russell.
When finalized, all six teams are expected to be hard-capped at the first tax apron, with the Mavericks, Grizzlies and Bucks joining the Pistons, Clippers and Wizards because of expanded traded exceptions.