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NBA Sources: Cavs aquire Keith Bogans - ESPN
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The Cleveland Cavaliers have swung a trade on the eve of media day.
Sources involved in the talks told ESPN.com that the Cavaliers, who will meet the media Friday and open training camp Saturday, have agreed to terms on a trade with the Boston Celtics to acquire swingman Keith Bogans.
The Cavaliers will surrender the non-guaranteed contracts of John Lucas, Erik Murphy and Malcolm Thomas -- as well as forward Dwight Powell -- to acquire Bogans, whose trade-friendly contract holds great appeal to Cleveland.
The combination of Bogans' contract being non-guaranteed both this season at $5.3 million and next season at $5.5 million -- along with Brendan Haywood's fully unguaranteed $10.5 million salary in 2015-16 -- potentially gives the Cavs a combined $16,035,935 in unguaranteed salary to dangle in trades for the 2015-16 campaign, which is a significant amount of cap relief to offer trade partners.
Boston, meanwhile, gets Powell and, according to ESPN's Jeff Goodman, two future second-round picks in the deal, as well as the ability to immediately release any of the players with non-guaranteed contracts.
The Celtics will have 23 players on their books once this deal is approved by the league office, requiring them to release four players before completing the long-anticipated signing of free-agent swingman Evan Turner.
Sources involved in the talks told ESPN.com that the Cavaliers, who will meet the media Friday and open training camp Saturday, have agreed to terms on a trade with the Boston Celtics to acquire swingman Keith Bogans.
The Cavaliers will surrender the non-guaranteed contracts of John Lucas, Erik Murphy and Malcolm Thomas -- as well as forward Dwight Powell -- to acquire Bogans, whose trade-friendly contract holds great appeal to Cleveland.
The combination of Bogans' contract being non-guaranteed both this season at $5.3 million and next season at $5.5 million -- along with Brendan Haywood's fully unguaranteed $10.5 million salary in 2015-16 -- potentially gives the Cavs a combined $16,035,935 in unguaranteed salary to dangle in trades for the 2015-16 campaign, which is a significant amount of cap relief to offer trade partners.
Boston, meanwhile, gets Powell and, according to ESPN's Jeff Goodman, two future second-round picks in the deal, as well as the ability to immediately release any of the players with non-guaranteed contracts.
The Celtics will have 23 players on their books once this deal is approved by the league office, requiring them to release four players before completing the long-anticipated signing of free-agent swingman Evan Turner.
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