In case you missed the news from yesterday, the Boston Celtics were granted the option to use a Disabled Player Exception ($3.2M, expires in March) because of Danilo Gallinari’s ACL injury. Before you go any further, I urge you to read through Keith Smith’s DPE Q&A’s.
The topic of the day is “How would you use the DPE?” Here are some broad stroke options:
Sign a player for $3.2M
One thing of note that Keith points out...
As for what this really means…that’s a little more difficult.