For those among us hoping for news of a player being traded into the Boston Celtics’ Evan Fournier traded player exception (TPE), Monday will be a bit of a disappointment with new reporting from Boston Sports Journal’s John Karalis relating that the $17.1 million TPE generated by Fournier’s sign and trade to the New York Knicks about a year ago will go unused.
Per Karalis, he is hearing “nothing good enough came along” to use the exception on for the Celtics, who will let it expire instead. The TPE would have allowed Boston to bring a player or players into their roster earning up to $17.2 million total in salary this coming 2022-23 season, but the cost to do so would have been steep given the Celtics would dive deep into luxury tax territory as a result of such a move.
