I guess it comes down to an interpretation of whether a traded player belongs on his former team's roster throughout the review process.
He's still property of the original team until a trade is finalized. Yahoo recognizes this, as the traded players still play for their original team during the review process.
I don't think there's any interpretation involved at all. A player is still on his original team until a trade is completed.
That's true.
I'll check my logs. Looks like all trades announced today will be scuttled.
Not necessarily, to be consistent with the Yahoo! rules, i think:
1. Balanced trades --- i.e. Birdman & Draft Dodgers deal (Birdman trades Carl Landry and Marvin Williams --> The Walker Wiggle trades Caron Butler, Brandon Wright, and own 2013 1st rounder) --- are fine i think b/c both teams have 16 players before and after the deadline.
(I agree too with Roy's point that this was a re-configuration of a deal, perhaps subject to some leeway)
2. For unbalanced trades -- like Lucky17/Birdman, GC/BFM and DraftDodgers/Rusted Rims deals -- they could go through, but the team TRADING AWAY more players than getting would have to (a) include those OUTGOING players in their 16-man post-cutdown rosters and (b) then would have a roster of 16 players LESS the difference in players SENT and RECEIVED (i.e. if they send 1 player and get 0 (which all 3 of these are) they have a 15 man roster.)
Can't speak for the other GMs, but my guess is that most were making these deals to alleviate roster crunches so it may not make sense for them to want to keep the guy they're trying to trade through the cut-down deadline.
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FWIW -- I've emailed BFM about this (ie. him having to keep Barea as part of the 16-man roster). If I don't hear back from him by 4 pm i'll just make my cuts...