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Indiana Pacers salary series: Kyle O’Quinn

By Tony East

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - JANUARY 23: Kyle O'Quinn #9 of the New York Knicks shoots the ball against the Indiana Pacers on January 23, 2017 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2017 NBAE (Photo by Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images)
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - JANUARY 23: Kyle O'Quinn #9 of the New York Knicks shoots the ball against the Indiana Pacers on January 23, 2017 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2017 NBAE (Photo by Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 09: Kyle O’Quinn #2 and Victor Oladipo #5 of the Orlando Magic walk off the court following the end of the first quarter against the Washington Wizards at Verizon Center on February 9, 2015, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /

Kyle O’Quinn’s current contract

Kyle O’Quinn signed a one-year, $4,449,000 deal with the Pacers roughly a week into the free agency period.

O’Quinn signed a deal that is called the room exception. The Pacers had already used all of their cap space to bring in Doug McDermott and Tyreke Evans. Since they were out of cap space, they had limited means to acquire more players. One of those means was the room exception.

The room exception is a salary cap tool that allows teams that have both used cap room in the league season AND are over the salary cap to add a player. The amount of the room exception this season is $4,449,000. The exception can be used on as many players as a team wants, but the Pacers used the whole thing to add depth to their big man rotation in the form of O’Quinn.

Any deal signed via the room exception can be up to two years in length. However, the Pacers valued future flexibility over a second season of Kyle O’Quinn, so they made his deal just one year long.

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