The Keith Van Horn trade makes me wonder...could an NBA player who is dead be included in a trade, for salary cap purposes? We already know that under NBA rules, from the Reggie Lewis and Bobby Phills precedents, that someone who has passed on still counts against the cap, so why shouldn't they be treated as an "expiring contract" in order to make a trade possible that would not be otherwise? Isn't it only a matter of time that someone tries this, and has to live with the resulting thundering backlash?
I'm serious, if Eddie Griffin's contract hadn't run out six months before his death, I'm not convinced Kevin McHale wouldn't have tried to include him in a postmortem trade.