Simons - Nurkic - Vucevic

[babyjax13]

BOS trades: Anfernee Simons, 28
in: Vucevic, 34
Boston cuts a bit of salary and gets a stopgap center.

CHI trades: Nikola Vucevic
in: Nurkic, Smith Jr., 28
Chicago moves Vucevic for a first.

CHA trades: Jusuf Nurkic, Nick Smith Jr., 34
in: Simons
Charlotte tries out a young, scoring combo-guard as a sixth man or starter at a low cost. If it doesn't work, you let him walk in the offseason.

[giberish]

I feel that Charlotte's likely to draft a point/combo guard at #4. So Simons isn't a great fit once that happens. If they somehow draft a different position, then they could be interested.

[Dez]

Consider it done.

Don't even know the contracts, just get rid of Vuc.

[djFan71]

BOS trades: Anfernee Simons, 28
in: Vucevic, 34
Boston cuts a bit of salary and gets a stopgap center.

CHI trades: Nikola Vucevic
in: Nurkic, Smith Jr., 28
Chicago moves Vucevic for a first.

CHA trades: Jusuf Nurkic, Nick Smith Jr., 34
in: Simons
Charlotte tries out a young, scoring combo-guard as a sixth man or starter at a low cost. If it doesn't work, you let him walk in the offseason.

Gets BOS super close to the lux tax, but no way to get under it - other than flipping Vuc again. And that's after dumping Hauser/Niang.

I think BOS either keeps Simons or gets a move to get them fully under the tax - or at least enables that. Vuc seems dead-end-ish in that it would take an asset to flip him for something cheaper.

[pipfan]

Good deal to me-you can drop Nick Smith unless he's needed for salary?

Bos ends up with a core of White/Brown/Vuc next year

[babyjax13]

Good deal to me-you can drop Nick Smith unless he's needed for salary?

Bos ends up with a core of White/Brown/Vuc next year

I think he is needed for salary, but I might be wrong. I did head math since spotrac isn't updated.

[brackdan70]

Something like this makes some sense for Boston, but I think if they are moving back to the second rounders with pick swap, they get to shed more salary. In a trade value sense doesn’t Simons have more value than Vucevic?

[GatherStepGuru]

Something like this makes some sense for Boston, but I think if they are moving back to the second rounders with pick swap, they get to shed more salary. In a trade value sense doesn’t Simon’s have more value than Vucevic?

I agree, Simons has more value than Vuc, and I don’t think Vuc is the type of C Boston needs; the man is a cone on defense. They need a younger, more athletic, and preferably cheaper C.

[patman66]

Cut out the bulls, the celts IMO will be lottery hunting next year. No need to try to win a few more games with vuc over Nurk

[patman66]

Cut out the bulls, the celts IMO will be lottery hunting next year. No need to try to win a few more games with vuc over Nurk

[ChettheJet]

The bulls maybe find floor time for #12, #28 is straight to the G League all season, with the guard list Smith plays even less than than #28

yeah the Nurkic fan club loves this, he's not Vuc, he's expiring, he's third string

this just adds 2 bodies to a nearly full roster

[cl2117]

I think Boston would need Chicago to eat Niang as well via their TPE. That let's them duck below the tax after making the Vuc/Simons swap.

I'm fine with it if it gets us below the tax line. Now that we've jettisoned KP/Jrue, I'm hoping Brad leans into the "soft tank" and looks towards 26/27, so Vuc isn't the idea target as he might shoot well enough in a couple games to win us a few we don't want but I'd take him for now and figure it out later (Maybe send him to the Lakers for expiring's and Knecht?).

[HornetJail]

yeah i'm good with this as long if our top pick isn't VJ or Tre

It's a talent upgrade so i might go with this regardless and just play multiple guards at a time