Beethoven wrote:I dont get why any team would help out another team trying to trade a big contract. Just force them to do a buyout and get him on the cheap. Doesnt make sense when San antonio says "we are agreeing to separate, so we are looking for a trade scenario" or , toronto says "we want to gift Lowry to go any place he wants to go, so we will work a trade w that team"
If you make those plans public, why would anyone out there want to help you out? It would be in your best interest to low ball the team and force them to buy him out.
Bird rights matter. It just ain’t about helping the team sending them out. If you are the Knicks you trade for Drummond because you get his rights and can pay him the most to stay or can sign and trade him somewhere.
Any team would be in a much better spot trading for them as opposed to getting a Lowry on a buyout because they don’t have to worry about shedding salary, asking him to play for a small exemption or something the summer once the playoffs are over.
You can point to Blake and say he signed for minimum and oh well the Pistons are going to be paying him so he should be willing to take less money, but that’s a slippery slope to start off talking with an agent about.
Now the Cletics are by far the stupid test in all of this. They have a 27mil trade exemption that could absorb Aldridge or Drummond for picks. They say they want these guys and are going to go after them but won’t even offer a second rounder for them when they can have them ... and that’s why Ainge and Boston are a joke.
The nets have an exemption and disabled player exception they can use to sign a buyout which means they have the most money on the market and that matters ... we had the most money on the market this time least year which is why Kieff was signed with that disabled exception
