The NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement has a specific set of rules teams need to abide by when making trades. How do these apply and how do a team like the Portland Trail Blazers have to operate when making trades?
As 29 NBA teams are over the cap, including the Blazers, they have to operate under a tiered set of rules where they can only bring back certain amounts of salary dependent on what they send out.
There are three types of teams when assessing trades for this trade deadline and they all have different rules that apply to them.