Hoops Rumors’ up-to-date list of traded player exceptions is below. These are salary cap exceptions teams can use to acquire one or more players whose salaries are no greater than the amount of the exception plus $100K. Trade exceptions cannot be combined or used to sign a free agent, and expire after one year. For more information on traded player exceptions, check out Hoops Rumors’ glossary entry.
The amount of the exception, the deal in which it was obtained, and the expiration date are listed below. If a team has used a portion of an exception, that is also indicated. If you have any corrections or omissions, please contact us.
Note: The expiry dates for trade exceptions created during the 2020/21 league year and 2021 offseason are based on information from Basketball Insiders.
List updated 2-11-22
Atlanta Hawks
Amount: $1,782,621
Obtained: Bruno Fernando (Celtics)
Expires: 7/7/22
Amount: $1,669,178
Obtained: Solomon Hill (Knicks)
Expires: 1/13/23
Boston Celtics
Amount: $1,024,467
Obtained: Kemba Walker (Thunder)
Initial amount: $6,879,100
Used: Bruno Fernando ($1,782,621)
Used: Bol Bol ($2,161,152)
Used: PJ Dozier ($1,910,860)
Expires: 5/17/22
Amount: $500,000
Obtained: Moses Brown (Mavericks)
Expires: 6/27/22
Amount: $1,440,549
Obtained: Tristan Thompson (Kings)
Initial amount: $9,720,900
Used: Daniel Theis ($8,280,351)
Expires: 7/7/22
Amount: $17,142,857
Obtained: Evan Fournier (Knicks)
Expires: 7/18/22
Amount: $6,907,815
Obtained: Juan Hernangomez (Spurs)
Expires: 1/19/23
Amount: $2,161,152
Obtained: Bol Bol (Magic)
Expires: 2/10/23
Amount: $1,910,860
Obtained: PJ Dozier (Magic)
Expires: 2/10/23
Amount: $5,890,000
Obtained: Dennis Schröder (Rockets)
Expires: 2/10/23
Amount: $1,782,621
Obtained: Bruno Fernando (Rockets)
Expires: 2/10/23
Amount: $1,669,178
Obtained: Enes Freedom (Rockets)
Expires: 2/10/23
Amount: $3,804,360
Obtained: Romeo Langford (Spurs)
Expires: 2/10/23
Brooklyn Nets
Amount: $118,342
Obtained: Landry Shamet (Suns)
Expires: 7/6/22
Amount: $3,246,530
Obtained: Spencer Dinwiddie (Wizards)
Initial amount: $11,454,048
Used: Seth Curry ($8,207,518)
Expires: 7/6/22
Amount: $6,267,918
Obtained: DeAndre Jordan (Pistons)
Expires: 8/19/22
Amount: $1,293,680
Obtained: Sekou Doumbouya (Rockets)
Initial amount: $3,613,680
Used: Edmond Sumner ($2,320,000)
Expires: 10/6/22
Amount: $11,306,904
Obtained: James Harden (Sixers)
Expires: 2/10/23
Amount: $1,669,178
Obtained: Paul Millsap (Sixers)
Expires: 2/10/23
Chicago Bulls
Amount: $5,000,000
Obtained: Daniel Theis (Rockets)
Expires: 7/7/22
Cleveland Cavaliers
Amount: $858,218
Obtained: Denzel Valentine (Knicks)
Expires: 1/3/23
Amount: $300,000
Obtained: Ricky Rubio (Pacers)
Expires: 2/7/23
Dallas Mavericks
Amount: $10,865,952
Obtained: Josh Richardson (Celtics)
Expires: 6/27/22
Golden State Warriors
Amount: $1,782,621
Obtained: Eric Paschall (Jazz)
Expires: 7/7/22
Houston Rockets
Amount: $607,730
Obtained: Daniel Theis (Celtics)
Expires: 2/10/23
Indiana Pacers
Amount: $7,333,333
Obtained: Doug McDermott (Spurs)
Expires: 7/7/22
Amount: $2,320,000
Obtained: Edmond Sumner (Nets)
Expires: 10/6/22
Amount: $10,500,000
Obtained: Jeremy Lamb (Kings)
Expires: 2/8/23
Amount: $420,049
Obtained: Torrey Craig (Suns)
Expires: 2/10/23
Los Angeles Clippers
Amount: $8,250,000
Obtained: Rajon Rondo (Grizzlies)
Expires: 7/18/22
Amount: $9,720,900
Obtained: Serge Ibaka (Bucks)
Expires: 2/10/23
Los Angeles Lakers
Amount: $2,692,991
Obtained: Marc Gasol (Grizzlies)
Expires: 8/29/22
Amount: $1,669,178
Obtained: Rajon Rondo (Cavaliers)
Expires: 1/3/23
Memphis Grizzlies
Amount: $4,054,695
Obtained: Grayson Allen (Bucks)
Expires: 7/7/22
Amount: $1,018,012
Obtained: Patrick Beverley (Timberwolves)
Expires: 8/1/22
Amount: $119,844
Obtained: Juan Hernangomez (Celtics)
Expires: 9/7/22
Miami Heat
Amount: $1,782,621
Obtained: KZ Okpala (Thunder)
Expires: 2/9/23
Milwaukee Bucks
Amount: $1,517,981
Obtained: Sam Merrill (Grizzlies)
Expires: 7/7/22
Minnesota Timberwolves
Amount: $4,750,000
Obtained: Ricky Rubio (Cavaliers)
Expires: 6/30/22
New Orleans Pelicans
Amount: $6,382,262
Obtained: Steven Adams (Grizzlies)
Initial amount: $17,073,171
Used: Larry Nance Jr. ($10,690,909)
Expires: 7/7/22
Amount: $1,786,878
Obtained: Didi Louzada (Trail Blazers)
Expires: 2/8/23
New York Knicks
Amount: $1,175,818
Obtained: Kevin Knox (Hawks)
Expires: 1/13/23
Philadelphia 76ers
Amount: $1,669,178
Obtained: Andre Drummond (Nets)
Expires: 2/10/23
Portland Trail Blazers
Amount: $6,519,792
Obtained: Robert Covington (Clippers)
Expires: 2/4/23
Amount: $20,864,198
Obtained: CJ McCollum (Pelicans)
Expires: 2/8/23
Amount: $3,261,480
Obtained: Nickeil Alexander-Walker (Jazz)
Expires: 2/9/23
Sacramento Kings
Amount: $4,023,600
Obtained: Tyrese Haliburton (Pacers)
Expires: 2/8/23
Amount: $1,630,934
Obtained: Marvin Bagley III (Pistons)
Expires: 2/10/23
Toronto Raptors
Amount: $3,070,052
Obtained: Kyle Lowry (Heat)
Initial amount: $4,832,848
Used: Drew Eubanks ($1,762,796)
Expires: 7/6/22
Amount: $5,250,000
Obtained: Goran Dragic (Spurs)
Expires: 2/10/23
Utah Jazz
Amount: $567,564
Obtained: Derrick Favors (Thunder)
Initial amount: $9,258,000
Used: Eric Paschall ($1,782,621)
Used: Juan Hernangomez ($6,907,815)
Expires: 6/27/22
Amount: $799,106
Obtained: Miye Oni (Thunder)
Expires: 1/4/23
Amount: $9,774,884
Obtained: Joe Ingles (Trail Blazers)
Expires: 2/9/23
Amount: $1,517,981
Obtained: Elijah Hughes (Trail Blazers)
Expires: 2/9/23
Washington Wizards
Amount: $3,980,551
Obtained: Aaron Holiday (Suns)
Expires: 2/10/23
Amount: $5,220,900
Obtained: Montrezl Harrell (Hornets)
Expires: 2/10/23
Information from Basketball Insiders was used in the creation of this list.
Basketball Insiders has the Bulls with a $1,074,720 trade exception for Marquis Teague. Not a huge difference but it makes their exception at least usable…
Yeah, I checked around, and it looks like that’s indeed the amount. There are some differences among the different reputable sites on some of these, but it seems they’re in agreement here. Thanks!
–Chuck
I think the Kings’ TPE for Thomas was reduced by $3m from the Terry/Gee trade. Or did they use a different exception to absorb Gee?
It sure was, thanks for the catch! I’d thought they’d matched salaries in that trade, but instead they put Gee into the Thomas exception and Hopson into the Thornton exception, allowing them to create an exception equivalent to Jason Terry’s salary.
–Chuck
Read on Twitter Knicks no longer have exceptions because they got under the cap. Can you clarify, reading this list makes me think otherwise.
They will almost certainly cease to have their trade exceptions soon after the July Moratorium, but for now, since there’s not yet a known cap figure to go under, and since they haven’t renounced any of their cap holds nor any of these exceptions, they technically still have them. Hope this helps!
They have them from Melo trade (2.3 or so) and WH trade (1.4 or so). They’ll last until the 1 year anniversaries of those deals. Using cap space will vitiate all exceptions (not just the TPEs). But merely having it does not, although that’s largely irrelevant because IF a team is otherwise under the “cap” (after renouncing cap holds) then “cap space” is computed after deducting all FA exceptions (MLE, BAE, TPEs and DPEs) available to that team, similar to deducting “cap holds” to the point renounced. So, any team under the cap after un-renounced cap holds can elect to use cap space (by renouncing those exceptions) or operating over the cap and use those exceptions. It’s a choice. Traditionally, unless you had substantial cap space in excess of the MLE, you would use the MLE and keep the other exceptions like TPEs, and, as important your cap holds, in place (the latter last forever until renounced).
Can you explain how the trade exception for Markieff Morris came to be? It appears the trade for him with WAS was a simultaneous trade from both directions, and I thought trade exceptions could only be created with non-simultaneous trades?
You can gain a trade exception worth a player’s partial salary if you don’t aggregate that salary with anyone else’s. The salaries for Humphries and Blair added up to $1.56MM less than the Morris salary, allowing the exception for the difference.
I know it’s because of the rising cap, but this has to be an all-time low for trade exceptions, right? It’s pretty much just the Cavs, and only Varejao’s is of any real significance.
Yeah, I’m not sure of the exact numbers, and I don’t know if there’s a way to go back and find out, but this is definitely the fewest TPEs I can recall seeing at a given time since Hoops Rumors launched (and probably well before that).
OKC should have a TPE for Paul George worth about 10.4 million, probably used the Melo TPE to absorb SGA.
Memphis used the Davis TPE to take Melton and should have one for Jevon Carter.
The Carter one is there, and I haven’t updated yet since the George trade went official today, so the OKC list will be adjusted soon. Had forgotten that Melton wasn’t at the minimum last year though, so good call on that.
I thought the JaVale McGee TPE should be slightly larger: 4.2 – 1.76 (McKinnie guaranteed) – 0.58 (Bell’s partial guarantee before he gets cut) = 1.86M. The figure above assumes that Bell was fully guaranteed.
I also wonder why the Blazers didn’t guarantee only the portion of the Ariza contract that was necessary to match RoCo’s salary. That would have given the Rockets a TPE for RoCo, then they could guarantee the rest and trade Ariza to Detroit.
Non-guaranteed and partially guaranteed salaries like Bell’s only count for the guaranteed amount for the team trading him, but the team acquiring him has to account for the full amount.
So for Cleveland he would’ve counted as $580K in outgoing salary, but the Lakers had to consider him a full $1.76MM player for trade purposes (obviously they won’t pay him that full amount).
According to Bobby Marks, the Thunder used the Gallinari TPE to absorb Leonard, which reduces it to 10.1M. They also created 12.8M for Ariza.
Speaking of the Thunder: they, the Warriors, and Wolves all have smaller TPEs on this list that have expired.
Thanks — it’s all up to date now.
Would the Jazz not have used Tony Bradley’s TPE for Paschall? It expired 8/7 according to Pincus, which was the official date of the transation…
Its expiry date was actually 8/6, I believe. Still waiting on confirmation on that, but for what it’s worth, Pincus also has the Favors TPE listed at $7,475,379 for now. We’ll see.
How would the Pacers have gotten a TPE for Lamb’s full 10.5 without using the McDermott TPE to take on Haliburton? Holiday for TT would be OK for a non taxpayer.
Based on the data I have, Haliburton narrowly fit into the Aaron Holiday TPE (which is no longer listed here because it’s been entirely used up). Sabonis’ outgoing salary matches Hield’s and Holiday’s matches Thompson’s.
Thanks for the clarification, I didn’t know about the Holiday exception.