If I were not a Sparks fan I would be ticked to high heaven. But the Sparks haters can take consolation in the fact that this trade puts LA into a real cap difficulty.
Plus the have entirely too many posts. They will have to get rid of one possibly two of them.
emjay-- Packaging the sisters off to Dallas for Cambage would solve their cap problems, but they would have to get some real value in return along with Cambage. Besides, Dallas wanted either Nneka or Gray in a straight up trade and LA wouldn't do it before. I believe Chiney has a trade approval clause in her contract. The reason they need to dump salary is that they still have to make cap space to sign Chelsea Gray. The value return they would require to make it work would have to involve future draft picks to get them under the cap. Trading both just will not work cap wise, even if La chose to do so--- which I doubt.
Acquiring Chiney does give LA more options to work with though. If they put together a package for Cambage or just stick with what they have, they will still need to dump a post along with salary to get under the cap and still sign Gray. To get players that Dallas wants they might still have to involve a third team. But now. Their best bet would be a trade for Lavender for a future pick which then could be packaged with Brown and Vadeeva for Cambage. Either way, they have to dump Lavenders max salary. Both Brown and Vadeeva are still on their rookie salaries and the both of them wouldn't even compensate for Cambage's. That would still leave them short for resigning Gray.
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