After the trade deadline, the team cannot trade Kawhi Leonard since he has a player option next year which is worth $36.0M.

Clippers do not have available cap space nor suitable TPE to use to sign James.

This trade would result in the Clippers crossing the tax apron of ($138.9M) while hardcapped. Therefore this trade is not possible. Remove $838K of incoming value to remain below the hard cap.

Hard Cap Reasons

Used more than taxpayer portion ($5,718,000.00) of their mid-level exception to sign Serge Ibaka.

LeBron James cannot be traded this year since he signed an extension after August 6th.