The NBA has granted a disabled player exception to the Celtics for the injury suffered by Danilo Gallinari, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic. The DPE is worth $3.23MM, which is half of Gallinari’s salary for this season, and can be used through March 10.
Gallinari suffered a torn left ACL in August while playing for Italy in a World Cup qualifying game. He underwent knee surgery in late September and is expected to miss the entire season.
The 34-year-old swingman signed a two-year contract with Boston in free agency after spending the last two seasons with the Hawks. He has a player option on the second year of the deal that he’s almost certain to exercise considering the injury.
Disabled player exceptions can be used to sign a free agent, to claim a player off waivers, or to acquire a player in a trade. They can only be used to add one player and must be used on a one-year contract (ie. a free agent can only be signed for one year and a waiver claim or trade acquisition must be in the final year of his deal).
Celtics will wait to use this money past the deadline probably, but Boogie isn’t a bad option for the Celtics needs currently. If they could pull off a deal for Crowder that would be impressive also
Boogie is actually an extremely bad option.
Ahh, our former Celtic Jae Crowder! But with an overabundance of guards now we may end up with a trade along w using this $3M exception. Trust in Stevens. Go Celtics!
The Celtics should have used the 17 million trade exception they let laspe on Turner.
is there anyway celtics could trade for turner using this DPE?
The DPE cannot be combined with a player in a trade, or used as a salary supplement. It can be used to acquire 1 or more players if there is enough $ to do that. Could be wrong on that detail, and it’s a one shot, 1 player only on the DPE, and not the same as a traded player exception.
When Reggie Lewis died, the NBA made the Celtics carry his full salary on the cap without relief. Times have changed, huh?
Dwight ???
A young center taller than 6’10 is what you need. R Williams is a c in a pf body
Center Mfiondu Kabegele possibly makes his Celtics debut tonight! Go Celtics!