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Boston Celtics trading Jaylen Brown was about 'optionality' | NBA on NBC

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In NBA salary cap management, teams may trade star players to gain 'optionality'—the flexibility to make future roster moves—when two players on supermax contracts make up an excessive percentage of the salary cap (70% in this case), even if it means temporarily weakening the team, as the goal is to maximize the prime years of remaining star players like Jason Tatum.