The Thunder are actively seeking a shooter as the deadline draws near,
tweets Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. Oklahoma City has a pair of
trade exceptions, and Wojnarowski suggests the team will use those to take back salary in an uneven exchange.
Oklahoma City has a $6.5MM exception left over from the departure of
Kevin Martin this past summer, as well as an exception worth $2,338,721 created in last year’s
Eric Maynor trade.
It’s most likely the Thunder would use the Maynor exception, which expires at the deadline, given the team’s proximity to the $71.748MM luxury tax line. Oklahoma City is about $2.2MM shy of that threshold.