This trade would result in the Clippers crossing the tax apron of ($138.9M) while hardcapped. Therefore this trade is not possible. Remove $2.5M of incoming value to remain below the hard cap.

Hard Cap Reasons

Used more than taxpayer portion ($5,718,000.00) of their mid-level exception to sign Serge Ibaka.

After the trade deadline, the team cannot trade Chris Paul since he has a player option next year which is worth $44.2M.