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Hornets Acquire Ridnour for Barnes

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I'm so lost on all these transactions. I hope we're not keeping Riddnour, who was just traded to Memphis yesterday for fugs sake.

We made this trade because the Barnes deal is guaranteed, Luke isn't, so he'll be released unless he gets moved to OKC for Lamb and cut there.

Remember the report was that we would acquire Lamb via Barnes but Barnes would not be going to OKC. That could mean OKC is moving Lamb for Ridnour since Lamb is a salary dump and they can cut Luke instead.

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We made this trade because the Barnes deal is guaranteed, Luke isn't, so he'll be released unless he gets moved to OKC for Lamb and cut there.

Remember the report was that we would acquire Lamb via Barnes but Barnes would not be going to OKC. That could mean OKC is moving Lamb for Ridnour since Lamb is a salary dump and they can cut Luke instead.

I think reading that just made my brain hurt

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I think reading that just made my brain hurt

Not that difficult.

NBA has guaranteed and unguaranteed contracts. Guaranteed means if you cut them it costs you. I believe Barnes hit was about a million dollars. He was guaranteed. Ridnour deal is not so you can cut him for free.

In this scenario, we were never going to keep Barnes but we didn't want to pay to cut him. So we found an unguaranteed contract in Ridnour and swapped with Memphis, who wants to keep Barnes.

Now in OKC the same scenario with Lamb. They need money to pay other guys and don't want to pay to release Lamb. So they will probably get the Ridnour contract and we will swap picks with them because we get the far better player in the deal.

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