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Originally Posted by Silk Smoov
I would like Stack go, because you are taking a monster contract back. That is why I said Harris, because the Pistons would need him, and he is NOT costly and does not pose a threat health wise as well
As far as Bird exception, from what I read, when you trade Billups, then the new team gets the Bird rights.
Take a look at this:
Larry exception
Perhaps the most well-known of the NBA's salary cap exceptions, it is so named because the Boston Celtics were the first team permitted to exceed the salary cap to re-sign one of their own players (in that case, Larry Bird). Free agents who qualify for this exception are called "qualifying veteran free agents" or "Bird Free Agents" in the CBA, and this exception falls under the auspices of the Veteran Free Agent exception. In a nutshell, the Larry Bird exception allows teams to exceed the salary cap to re-sign their own free agents, at an amount up to the maximum salary. To qualify as a Bird free agent, a player must have played three seasons without being waived or changing teams as a free agent. This means a player can obtain "Bird rights" by playing under three one-year contracts, a single contract of at least three years, or any combination thereof. It also means that when a player is traded, his Bird rights are traded with him, and his new team can use the Bird exception to re-sign him. Bird-exception contracts can be up to six years in length.
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Yes, you get a player's Bird rights when you trade for them, but since Billups is going to be a free agent Detroit can't trade him without re-signing him first. If he's signed, then it doesn't matter if the Mavs have his Bird rights or not because he'll already be under contract.
If you're thinking that Detroit could just sign him to a small dollar, one year deal then trade him to the Mavs, then the Mavs could give him big money the next offseason, that doesn't work for two very important reasons. First, that would be an obvious attempt to circumvent the collective bargaining agreement and Kevin McHale can tell you that's not a good idea. Second, Billups would never agree to it anyways because he'd be putting himself at incredible risk because if he gets injured the only money he's guaranteed is that 1 year of small money and he'd never be able to recoup the big money that was supposed to follow in future years.