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Due to cleveland and boston being over the cap, the 15% trade rule is invoked.
cleveland and boston had to be within 15% plus $100,000 of the salary given out
unless trade exemptions were used for the trade to be accepted, which did happen
here. This trade satisfies the provisions of the Collective BargainingAgreement.
cleveland had to use $2,110,000 of their $2,850,000 trade exemption in order for
this trade to go through. cleveland has $740,000 left of their previous trade
exemption to use in another trade.

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Why don't we trade Hot Rod for Trajan with switching no.1s (our Jazz's pick).
Lottery protection or not, Cav's pick is bound to be good one.

The benefits for us are:
1) Trajan can play (whether garbage time or not) on court whereas Hot Rod is
probably on injured list all season long.
2) We need insurance on SGs.
2) Rick can do what he does best - resuscitate Trajan's career
3) Cav's no.1 is more valuable than Jazz's. It's a given.
4) You do Hot Rod a favour. He may get to retire in his original team. 
5) By end of the season, if Trajan still does not pan out (you got the whole
season to find out), he is on one of those very favourable a 3 year rookie
contract, (a) you decline to pick up the 4 year option or (b) trade him , since
he got only 1 year left. Donald Sterling and the flippers  like these kind of
players. So he's got value.


Cav's benefits are:
1) if they cut Trajan, they have to eat 1.5 + 2.1 mil. 
2) they get something out of nothing, if they trade Trajan.
2) they can retire Hot Rod's number, probably put Hot Rod as big man coach.
3) retiring Hot Rod may sell more Cav tix.
4) they convert remaining 2 years contract of Trajan into a 1 year expiring
contract of Hot Rod's. 


win-win situation.

kevin