The Wizards are planning to apply for a disabled player exception due to the season-ending injury to center Thomas Bryant, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski tweets.
The DPE is a salary cap exception designed to allow teams to add a replacement for a player who suffers a season-ending injury. Bryant suffered a torn ACL in his left knee on Saturday. The DPE is worth either half the injured player’s salary or the value of the non-taxpayer mid-level exception, whichever is lesser.
Bryant has an $8,333,333 salary, so the DPE in this case would be approximately $4.17MM.
The disabled player exception doesn’t give a team an extra roster spot, but it allows the club to add a player without impacting its salary cap space. It can be used to sign a free agent, to claim a player off waivers, or to acquire a player in a trade. However, it can only be used on one player and can only accommodate a player on a one-year deal. A free agent signee can’t get a multiyear contract, and any trade or waiver target must be in the final year of his contract.
The Wizards currently have a full roster and are a hard-capped team, so there’s no guarantee they’d make use of a disabled player exception. Still, if granted, it would give them a little more flexibility at the trade deadline.
hmmm… two scenarios: trade lopez and brown to rockets for caboclo(they’ve stocked up with a 29% shooting from da field boogie and a future superstar in christian wood so why not) and mclenmore well idk wut else is a good deal.
or they could sign justin patton(injury prone just like exum and issac), dedmon, or o quinn.
No one is making trades this season until the covid stuff can be controlled. It’s not worth trading anything to fight for a playoff spot if the season ends up getting shut down.
I hope it doesnt come to that but a smart front office isnt going to pull a trigger on a trade for a short term fix that might not have the chance to pan out
Wiz can ride lopez and use the other bigs, use the DPA to sign guys like Musa or Korver or Ilyasova on ten days till they find someone that works
Then I guess cut anzejs.