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WATCH: How the Evan Fournier Traded Player Exception helps the Boston Celtics

Confused about TPEs and how they can help Boston? Watch this video to learn more.

Once again, Boston Celtics fans can ponder whether the team will use a brand-new traded player exception (TPE) generated by the exit of a player from the Celtics in the offseason, this time veteran shooting guard Evan Fournier. What exactly does Boston get for creating one that was worth burning two second-round picks (albeit one heavily protected)?

Particularly when one considers Fournier himself was traded in exchange for a pair of seconds into a TPE left over from veteran forward Gordon Hayward’s decampment that took draft assets to create as well. On top of the $17.1 million exception from the Fournier sign-and-trade to the New York Knicks, the team has two other TPEs of note.

So what are the Celtics trying to do with all these TPEs? That’s exactly the question asked and answered by Brian Robb and Rich Lavine of the CLNS Media podcast “Winning Plays” on a recent episode.

Watch or listen to the clip embedded above to learn more about how Boston can make use of the new TPE created from the Evan Fournier exit.

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Boston Celtics announce creation of $17.1 million traded player exception from Evan Fournier to Knicks

Boston can now absorb up to $17.1 million in a trade as a result.

The Boston Celtics announced the creation of a traded player exception (TPE) via veteran shooting guard Evan Fournier joining the New York Knicks earlier this offseason, which will be for $17.1 million per multiple sources. The move allows Boston to recoup the cap flexibility it had before bringing Fournier into the TPE created by forward Gordon Hayward’s exit from the team a season prior.

The Celtics reportedly sent out a 2023 second round draft pick and a conditional 2022 second round draft pick (Charlotte’s, protected top 55) in exchange for the creation of the TPE and cash considerations of an undisclosed amount. Now, the Celtics will be able to retain cap flexibility without the tax hit that salary would have created, giving the team about a year to decide who to use it on, if anyone.

More likely than not it will not be used this offseason given the potential tax bill it would create, but it could be used to beef up the roster should Boston over-achieve this season, or be used before it expires next season as part of the team’s teambuilding toolkit.

With the Celtics in striking distance of getting under the cap and avoiding the repeater tax another season early in the careers of All-Star forwards Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, it is more plausible to see it used in the 2022 offseason.

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Which salary cap exceptions to the Boston Celtics have to work with this offseason?

Get to know some of the team-building tools Boston has at its disposal.

For much of the previous year and change, Boston Celtics fans have become much more acquainted with the traded player exception than perhaps they would have liked after the decampment of star forward Gordon Hayward to the Charlotte Hornets in the offseason after the 2019-20 season generated the largest ever created in NBA history.

And while the team used some of it to bring in veteran shooting guard Evan Fournier at the 2021 trade deadline, a substantial chunk remains available to be used if taken advantage of before it expires. It’s also far from the only salary cap exception Boston might use this offseason and in their 2021-22 campaign to elevate the prospects of their coming season.

Let’s take a quick look at them all, along with some pertinent details.

The sellers so far: What teams might move players – and which?

Among the teams shaping up to be sellers, who are some options Boston should look into trading for?

At roughly one-third of the way through the 2020-21 NBA season, a handful of teams are beginning to look like the postseason will be out of reach — even considering the continuing existence of the play-in tournament.

And with the Boston Celtics needing to add some talent to their roster to compete consistently at all (never mind for a title), that can help clarify which teams and what players team president Danny Ainge and the rest of the front office ought to be targeting in the coming weeks. With a historically-big traded player exception generated by the Gordon Hayward offseason sign-and-trade and a pair of smaller ones from lesser moves, the Celtics are well-positioned to shake things up if they want to.

But who might they be looking at, and on which rosters? Let’s look at the likely suspects.

 

WATCH: 4 potential Celtics TPE targets – a film study on fit

What are some of the better fits to match the Celtics’ TPE?

The Boston Celtics have a historically large traded player exception (TPE) created with the sign-and-trade of veteran forward Gordon Hayward to the Charlotte Hornets in the offseason, and it’s starting to itch in the mind of Celtics fans eager to shake things up after a spate of bad losses.

But who are the options who might make sense not only from a salary perspective but a fit one? With the TPE being one of the last major tools left in team president Danny Ainge’s toolkit, it’s critical to get the move right. Our friends over at the Playgrounder put together a video highlighting some of our favorite options after a long discussion on the Celtics Lab podcast, and there’s some solid suggestions analyzed in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M8S8Ra8E90

Watch the video embedded above to see what they have to say about four such potential targets, and see which — if any — resonate with you as well.

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Making use of Boston’s smaller TPEs to boost its bench rotation

The Celtics have $5 and $2.6 traded-player exceptions to use as well; what options make sense to fill them?

The Boston Celtics have the biggest traded-player exception (TPE) in league history to work with to fortify their team ahead of the Mar. 25 trade deadline in their efforts to make a run at a title after sign-and-trading Gordon Hayward to the Charlotte Hornets in the offseason.

But, they don’t necessarily need to use all of the $28.5 million exception — or even any of it this season to accomplish those goals. In fact, they couldn’t use all of it even if they wanted to after the sign-and-trade triggered a hard cap for the season, though they do have about $22 million to play with.

If they did use a sizeable part, they’ll jump even further into the luxury tax, exacerbated by the ever-more punitive repeater tax structure, making fielding a contender increasingly onerous.

CLAB 21: Taking stock of the new roster, and Boston’s TPE options

This episode, we take stock of the 2020-21 Celtics roster to date, and daydream about our ideal TPE targets for the Celtics.

The Gordon Hayward era of the Boston Celtics has officially come to a close, with the biggest traded-player exception (TPE) in NBA history going to the Celtics, and the Butler product to the Charlotte Hornets.

With that move comes several others to spruce up the roster, such as the signings of big man Tristan Thompson and point guard Jeff Teague, two new rookies in Aaron Nesmith and Payton Pritchard, and some familiar faces coming back on new deals.

Join Cameron Tabatabaie of Celtics Hub, Alex Goldberg of Off the Glass and Justin Quinn of Celtics Wire as we get our bearings on the roster for the coming season.

And stay for the discussion of how Boston might choose to make use of its TPE, what limitations it has, and how we feel about former Celtics stepping into the ring or onto the team’s coaching staff with Nate Robinson and Evan Turner making their way back into Boston’s offseason news cycle.

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