The Thunder have applied to the NBA for a disabled player exception worth $4.95MM due to the season-ending loss of Chet Holmgren, Shams Charania of The Athletic tweets.
The DPE allows a team to sign a player without using cap space. In order for the exception to be granted, an NBA-designated physician must determine that the player is “substantially more likely than not” to be sidelined through at least June 15 of that league year.
If granted, the disabled player exception allows a club to sign a replacement player for 50% of the injured player’s salary, or for the amount of the non-taxpayer’s mid-level exception, whichever is lesser.
Holmgren has a $9,891,240 salary in his rookie year, so a DPE worth half his salary would work out to $4,945,620.
Holmgren, the No. 2 overall pick of the 2022 draft, will miss his entire rookie season after sustaining a right foot injury. The 20-year-old will undergo surgery in the coming weeks and is expected to make a full recovery by the start of 2023/24.
The injury took place during a Seattle pro-am that was later called off due to unsafe (slippery) court conditions.
If I’m the thunder I don’t pay Chet A dime
They have to since it was an NBA sanctioned event
this is one of many reasons you don’t own an NBA team.
Oh. See i thought it was because he didnt have 2-5 billions dollars.
I agree with him, why should i pay you for hurting yourself on a glorified pick up game?
If I owned the Thunder even if it wasn’t a sanctioned event I’d make sure he got every dime. Take care of the kid. He got hurt, it’s not like he was pulling a Kyrie Irving move.
Huh?
You know Embiid had a flat tire and missed his entire rookie season too….imagine if Philly had that same stupid mindset…..
Wasn’t Joel out two years with injury. Ben was out a year but they wouldn’t let fulks sit one season.
Did Embiid get injured playing pick up in Seattle in a high school gym?
Did Joel break his foot during a league sanctioned event? (To save you time, no he didn’t.)
God bless the company man lol
They don’t really have a choice. They get it all back anyway because NBA teams to insure their top 5 contracts and the Thunder are cheap so Holmgren is already their 4th biggest contract.
Chet holmglass
Now it’s time to tank for next yr. The annual OKC event ………
Can you believe they had
Harden, KD, Westbrook, Batum, Jackson, Ibaka, Collison, Thabo, Green (before heart trouble), Livingston all in their prime.
@kickerbockeral so a few things here. When did they have Batum? Livingston, Shawn Livingston? When did they have him? Lastly, they didnt have harden in his prime – tank for next year the annual OKC event lets see how about getting pg13 (was he in his prime then dummy?) or victor oladipo ? How about Carmelo Anthony post KD ? Tanking please.. how about going back 2 years ago in 2020 having CP3 and galaneri were they tanking then losing to the rockets in game 7 in the Orlando playoff due to a mismanaged game by billy donavan – gee wiz guy .. tanking.. please
If they are tanking and not paying luxory taxes why is it even necessary?
Oh wait they are still paying Kemba… Guess they won’t ve taking that much dead money this season…
I still don’t think it’s bad for the Thunder… Sure they waste another year with SGA but the west is so deep the Thunder will need all the talent on deck to even sniff the play in…
Give them another top pick or 3 along with the years before thinking of rising up the ranks…