Saturday is the first day that players acquired in off-season trades can be dealt and even though Oakley would not mind being traded, he won?t ask for it. On the same way, Jerry Krause will unlikely to want to trade him, as Oakley contract is gold. Oakley earns $7.3 million and it will expire after the season.

"Salary-cap flexibility is very important," Krause said. "By the same token, getting better talent is important. You have to balance those out.

"I recently broke down all the cap numbers for the next three years. Most teams are going to be operating on exceptions and aren't going to have the room to go after free agents. We will have the ability to be under the cap."