stan francisco wrote:Again, along with Beasley, Russ should in my humble view not be resigned because he plays contact free basketball and picks up cheap fouls just the same way he did several years ago. Beasley plays no real defense either. S&T for both? Add Bamba and we might get ourselves a starting grade two way PG…
You keep saying this crap but don’t actually provide any names.
D’Lo, Beasley and Bamba is like $55m worth of contract. Who’s this two way PG you’re signing for that? What’s the trade there? Because the team you trade with would be hard capped remember.
The only point guard S&T out there realistically is Kyrie or James Harden. Neither of which play any defence. Out of those 2 i’m taking Kyrie because you can trust him to score in the big moments.
I’m running the numbers now and we can probably just about afford it and stay under the projected $170m tax apron. But it depends on what Rui and Reaves want. I’m budgeting them at $13m on the cap next season.
The big issue is the LeBron contract to be honest. $47m against the cap. I love Bron but honestly, he can’t say it’s win at all costs when he’s taking $47m at 39 year old playing maybe 60 regular season games. If he had even taken $40m it would have given the team so much more room to breathe on any potential sign and trade.
But yeah, i’m trying the Kyrie trade. I like D’Lo but he isn’t built for the play offs. He’s a major reason we even made it to them, so thanks for that, but his below average defence means he gets hunted and he doesn’t make up for it by giving you 20 a night.
D’Lo and Beasley with the 2029 pick for Kyrie. You’d then need to waive Bamba, and give the MLE to Dennis or Troy, and then fill the rest of the team out with Vet mins.
PG - Kyrie Irving ($47m).
SG - Austin Reaves ($13m).
SF - Lebron James ($46.7m).
PF - Jarred Vanderbilt ($4.7m).
C - Anthony Davis ($40.6m).
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PG - Dennis Schroder ($MLE).
SG - $VETMIN (No Idea. Might need to promote Max).
SF - $VETMIN (Doubt TBJ takes another vet, so maybe Yuta Watanabe?)
PF - Rui Hachimura ($13m).
C - $VETMIN (Bamba after being waived? Thomas Bryant coming back maybe?)
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PG - $VETMIN (Aaron Holiday?)
SG - Max Christie ($1.8m).
SF - $VETMIN (Stanley Johnson?)
PF - $VETMIN (Wenyen Gabriel?)
C - $VETMIN (Tristan Thompson?)
Total - $167m.
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The third string being filled out by vet min guys is no issue. Having 3 as your #8/9/10 guy might be tough though so Rob would need to do a good job this off season. Not impossible though. He got Dennis, TBJ, and Thomas Bryant on vet mins this season.
There is the issue that the 1st rounder in the 2023 draft will take $3m on the cap so we’d be over the apron potentially, so if we sign Kyrie then we’ll need to trade that (attach it to Shaq Harrison rather than waiving his deal) along with the 2023 second round pick, and try get back as good a player as possible who makes $2m. There are a few good ones. Jaden Hardy or Isaiah Joe for example.