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Larry Coon explains Garnett’s trade kicker

A lot of us are wondering how exactly Garnett’s trade kicker works. Larry Coon stepped in and answered it for us. Thanks, Larry!

First of all, the kicker is $6.75M whether he’s traded before or after July 1.

It’s charged to the cap over two seasons (06-07 and 07-08) if he’s traded before July 1. It’s all charged to the 07-08 cap if he’s traded after July 1. So if he’s traded after July 1, then LA has $28.75M incoming — both in salary and in cap hit.

Garnett can waive all or a portion of that $6.75M, but only to the extent that it allows a deal to go through. If a trade is legal with him taking his bonus (or some portion of it), then he doesn’t have the option to waive it.

8 Comments

  1. magicbalala245 says:

    i don’t care if we have to over pay BRING KG HIS FIRE AND PASSION WITH KOBE BRYANT I DON’T IF WE HAVE TO OVER PAY LIKE THIS
    http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=981~2748~1998~3002~549~617~1016~2027~193~261~353~387&teams=16~16~16~16~16~16~16~16~13~13~13~13
    BRING THE BIG TICKET TO LA AND THAT WILL BE KOBE TICKET TO NEXT YEAR’S NBA FINALS AGAINST A WEAK TEAM FROM THE EAST

  2. jerry riley says:

    I agree 100% how could we even be discussing over paying for kg if we can get him.Let talk about overpaying the others 11 players on this team. what did we pay for mckie,mihms,smush,sasha,extending cook contract,brown,still was paying for b.grant contract just last year,we are talking about overpaying kg you guys are just plain crazy.

  3. alex says:

    ………

  4. alex says:

    [quote comment="4152"]i don’t care if we have to over pay BRING KG HIS FIRE AND PASSION WITH KOBE BRYANT I DON’T IF WE HAVE TO OVER PAY LIKE THIS
    http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=981~2748~1998~3002~549~617~1016~2027~193~261~353~387&teams=16~16~16~16~16~16~16~16~13~13~13~13
    BRING THE BIG TICKET TO LA AND THAT WILL BE KOBE TICKET TO NEXT YEAR’S NBA FINALS AGAINST A WEAK TEAM FROM THE EAST[/quote]
    thats a stupid ass fckin trade

  5. KOBEAKSEL24 says:

    [quote comment="4152"]i don’t care if we have to over pay BRING KG HIS FIRE AND PASSION WITH KOBE BRYANT I DON’T IF WE HAVE TO OVER PAY LIKE THIS
    http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=981~2748~1998~3002~549~617~1016~2027~193~261~353~387&teams=16~16~16~16~16~16~16~16~13~13~13~13
    BRING THE BIG TICKET TO LA AND THAT WILL BE KOBE TICKET TO NEXT YEAR’S NBA FINALS AGAINST A WEAK TEAM FROM THE EAST[/quote]

    WHAT A GAY TRADE
    THE LAKERS WOOULLD BE STUPID IF THEY DID THAT

  6. kb24 says:

    [quote comment="4152"]i don’t care if we have to over pay BRING KG HIS FIRE AND PASSION WITH KOBE BRYANT I DON’T IF WE HAVE TO OVER PAY LIKE THIS
    http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=981~2748~1998~3002~549~617~1016~2027~193~261~353~387&teams=16~16~16~16~16~16~16~16~13~13~13~13
    BRING THE BIG TICKET TO LA AND THAT WILL BE KOBE TICKET TO NEXT YEAR’S NBA FINALS AGAINST A WEAK TEAM FROM THE EAST[/quote]

    http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=193~261~981~2748~3002~617~1016&teams=13~13~16~16~16~16~16
    better trade

  7. John says:

    [quote post="425"] i don’t care if we have to over pay BRING KG HIS FIRE AND PASSION WITH KOBE BRYANT I DON’T IF WE HAVE TO OVER PAY LIKE THIS
    http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=981~2748~1998~3002~549~617~1016~2027~193~261~353~387&teams=16~16~16~16~16~16~16~16~13~13~13~13
    BRING THE BIG TICKET TO LA AND THAT WILL BE KOBE TICKET TO NEXT YEAR’S NBA FINALS AGAINST A WEAK TEAM FROM THE EAST

    WHAT A GAY TRADE
    THE LAKERS WOOULLD BE STUPID IF THEY DID THAT[/quote]
    [quote post="425"] i don’t care if we have to over pay BRING KG HIS FIRE AND PASSION WITH KOBE BRYANT I DON’T IF WE HAVE TO OVER PAY LIKE THIS
    http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=981~2748~1998~3002~549~617~1016~2027~193~261~353~387&teams=16~16~16~16~16~16~16~16~13~13~13~13
    BRING THE BIG TICKET TO LA AND THAT WILL BE KOBE TICKET TO NEXT YEAR’S NBA FINALS AGAINST A WEAK TEAM FROM THE EAST

    thats a stupid ass fckin trade[/quote]
    that is a 50 50 trade but i do agree whatever it take’s to bring KG

  8. JASON DREW says:

    HELL YEA LET’S GET KG SO WE CAN SMASH EVERYONE EAST OR WEST.LETS GO LAKERS.

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