Apparently the Toronto Sun didn't do it's research. Word is that because Toronto matched the free agent offer New Orleans signed MoPete to last summer, under the NBA collective bargaining agreement, he cannot be directly traded to the same team that failed to sign him. Therfore, a third team would have to come into the mix so that MoPete would have to be moved to Team A, then Team A would ship him to New Orleans, assuming of course this doesn't violate any of the other complicated rules about contracts and cap numbers.
Try going to http://www1.realgm.com/src_tradechecker/1/ in order to try various trade possibilities. You can choose the players and see if that trade works. It will explain anything preventing the trade from going through, such as contracts not fitting the cap, etc.
It won't allow you to choose players in their Last Non-Exercisable Year. "Players in the last non-exercisable year of their contract cannot be traded after the trade deadline when teams can once again trade players after their season is over." Whatever that means.
Try going to http://www1.realgm.com/src_tradechecker/1/ in order to try various trade possibilities. You can choose the players and see if that trade works. It will explain anything preventing the trade from going through, such as contracts not fitting the cap, etc.
It won't allow you to choose players in their Last Non-Exercisable Year. "Players in the last non-exercisable year of their contract cannot be traded after the trade deadline when teams can once again trade players after their season is over." Whatever that means.
