Welcome to Lockdown Warriors, your daily podcast on all things Warriors, part of the Lockdown

Podcast Network.

I'm your host, West Goldberg, Warriors writer for the Mercury News.

It's Monday, so we're going to open up the mailbag.

We've got questions about who should be the Warriors backup point guard.

And if Andrew Wiggins can lead the second unit offense next season.

But let's start with this question from Omar, who writes in.

What are your top three $17.2 million trade exception candidates?

I actually got a lot of questions about the traded player exception.

The Warriors have created that TPE because of the deal that sent Anja A.

Aguadal to Memphis last July.

They now are able to absorb a salary within that $17.2 million range.

The tricky part is that they can't combine a salary on top of that, right?

So you can't take, for example, the $17.2 million exception, combine, let's say, Kavon Luni's $5 million contract and create a larger way to get a bigger salary.

What you can do, however, is package this trade exception with draft picks.

And the Warriors not only have what's going to be probably a top four pick in the draft,

but they have a bunch of second rounders and things like that now after the

trade deadline that they acquired.

So they've got a lot of ways to add to this trade exception to make a little bit more

of an enticing package for a team that is probably trying to get off some salary and also

move up in the draft potentially if they were to add

that top four, top five pick with it.

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