Bulls do not have available cap space nor suitable TPE to use to sign Siakam.

This trade would result in the Bulls crossing the tax apron of ($143.0M) while hardcapped. Therefore this trade is not possible. Remove $21.8M of incoming value to remain below the hard cap.

Hard Cap Reasons

Used more than taxpayer portion ($5,890,000.00) of their mid-level exception to sign Alex Caruso ($8,600,000).. Acquired DeMar DeRozan from the Spurs via sign-and-trade.

Bulls are unable to complete this trade. Since they are now a taxpaying team after this trade, they are only able to take back 125% of the salary they are sending out, plus $100,000.

Bulls can only take back $100K in salary based on the amount they are sending out.

Cut $32.9M from the Bulls incoming trade value to make this trade successful for the Bulls.