{"id":300256,"date":"2025-11-21T23:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300256\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T23:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:37:07","slug":"clippers-apply-for-disabled-player-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300256\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers Apply For Disabled Player Exception"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Clippers have applied for a disabled player exception in response to Bradley Beal<\/a>\u2018s season-ending hip injury<\/a>, according to Jake Fischer of The Stein Line and Bleacher Report (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

An NBA team becomes eligible for a disabled player exception<\/a> when one of its players sustains an injury that is considered more likely than not to sideline him through June 15 of that league year. That\u2019s expected to be the case for Beal, who was diagnosed last week<\/a> with a fracture in his hip.<\/p>\n

A disabled player exception doesn\u2019t grant the team an extra roster spot, but it generates some additional cap flexibility. The exception can be used to acquire a player on an expiring contract via trade or waiver claim, or to sign a free agent to a one-year deal.<\/p>\n

The value of the disabled player exception is equivalent to either the non-taxpayer mid-level exception or half of the injured player\u2019s salary, whichever is lesser. Since Beal\u2019s cap hit is $5,354,000, well below the mid-level, the DPE would be worth $2,677,000.<\/p>\n

The Clippers have used their full mid-level exception<\/a> and don\u2019t have their bi-annual exception available<\/a> this season since they used it in 2024\/25. That means a disabled player exception actually could come in handy for L.A., perhaps accommodating a free agent signing above the veteran\u2019s minimum or a trade for a player on a near-minimum contract.<\/p>\n

The problem for the Clippers is that they\u2019re currently operating just $1.28MM away from their first-apron hard cap. A team can\u2019t exceed its hard cap for any reason, so if the NBA awards them a DPE for Beal, the Clippers wouldn\u2019t be able to use more than $1.28MM of it unless they shed salary elsewhere on the roster.<\/p>\n

March 10 is the deadline to use a disabled player exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Clippers have applied for a disabled player exception in response to Bradley Beal\u2018s season-ending hip injury, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,1170,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-300256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bradley-beal","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}