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Trade #1 (Jrue):

DAL gives: Klay Thompson, Naji Marshall, Dwight Powell, Olivier-Maxence Prosper, 2nd rounder(s)
DAL gets: Jrue Holiday

Why? Consolidate to a perfect roster fit for them. When Kyrie comes back, they'd have Kyrie/Jrue/Flagg/AD/Lively as starters and Hardy/Christie/Caleb Martin/PJ Washington/Gafford off the bench. Good, deep team. They can make plenty of follow up moves too. The deal is slight savings this year which avoids hard cap at 1st apron which would trigger if they took back more than they sent. It's also salary neutral next year since Klay/Marshall have 2 year deals. The big "cost" here is taking on year 3 of Jrue's deal, but they can use it in trades at that point since they'll have tradable picks and a cornerstone to build around in Flagg.

SAC gives: fake 2nd
SAC gets: Naji Marshall, Olivier-Maxence Prosper, 2nd rounder from BOS or DAL

Why? They need playable forwards who can hang on the defensive end, they get one for free on a sub-MLE deal in Marshall and a former 1st round prospect in Olivier-Maxence Prosper. They get a 2nd for their trouble of facilitating too.

LAC gives: fake 2nd
LAC gets: C Dwight Powell, 2nd rounder from BOS or DAL

Why? They have TPEs that fit him and could use a lob threat just to provide some easy offense with Harden for the regular season slog since they rest Kawhi so much. They get a 2nd for their trouble.

BOS gives: Jrue Holiday, future 2nd rounder
BOS gets: Klay Thompson

Why? Save $$$. This does most of the heavy lifting to avoid the 2nd apron this year and sets them up to avoid the luxury tax altogether next year. Sucks, but it is what it is.



Trade #2 (Porzingis)

LAL gives: Gabe Vincent, Maxi Kleber, 2 future 2nds
LAL gets: Nikola Vucevic

Why? Get a playable big man with some offensive juice for dead weight expiring deals. Deal saves $1M so doesn't hard cap them at the first apron.

CHI gives: Nikola Vucevic, Jevon Carter
CHI gets: Kristaps Porzingis, 2 future LAL 2nds

Why? Move Vuc for some 2nds and get back a higher risk but also higher upside center. If Porzingis is healthy, he could help them break through the play in. If not, maybe he helps them "bottom out" some. Carter makes the math work and makes this pretty salary neutral for CHI, with stillplenty of room below the tax.

BOS gives: Kristaps Porzingis, 2nd rounder
BOS gets: Gabe VIncent, Maxi Kleber

Why? Again, it sucks as a fan but cash is king here. This deal, combined with above Jrue deal, gets them below the 2nd apron and gives them some guys in Vincent/Kleber that are movable for further savings too.

BRK gives: nothing
BRK gets: Jevon Carter, future BOS 2nd rounder

Why? Get a pick for salary dump. Simple.



Trade #3

DET gives: nothing
DET gets: Maxi Kleber, #28 pick

BOS gives: Maxi Kleber #28 pick
BOS gets: nothing

Why? DET lands a 1st in a salary dump. On the court, Kleber does give them a stretch 5 which they don't have. Also gives them some salary filler for a midseason deal, which their roster kind of lacks beyond Fontecchio.



Trade #4

NOP gives: nothing
NOP gets: Gave Vincent, #33 pick

Why? Pelicans only have one pick this year. They get a guy who can sop up some minutes with Murray out for a bit and pick up a high 2nd to try and start adding some more youth.






At the end of all of these deals, BOS will have 11 players signed and be $6,577,068 below the luxury tax line.

White / Pritchard / JD Davison
Klay / Schierman
Brown / Walsh
Hauser
Queta / Tillman
(+ Tatum but obviously not playing)

They can sign one of their two way guys, Drew Peterson who played ok this year, a rookie minimum and a vet min to fill out the roster. Tough it out through a tanking year while staying below the luxury tax altogether. Next year you look to package Klay's expiring deal with Hauser and their presumably good 2026 1st rounder for a good long term piece alongside Tatum and Brown and try to run it back. Painful year but if they can find a good front court player with that trade offer then they'll be in terrific position for a bounce back and the finances will all be in order.

trade 1 is illegal for dallas. they are too close to 2nd apron. dont think sacramento need additional incentive back though. plenty of teams should absorb naji into exception

trade 2 carter cost more than 1 2nd to dump

in fact just give brooklyn the 28 to absorb both kleber and carter; they need to reach salary floor anyways

Godaddycurse wrote:trade 1 is illegal for dallas. they are too close to 2nd apron. dont think sacramento need additional incentive back though. plenty of teams should absorb naji into exception

Ah... I forgot to include the cap hold for Flagg. Yeah, that takes them over. This deal saves them $273K in salary but aggregates so yeah, hard capped.

That being said, they'd have a bench of Hardy ($6M), Christie (7.7M), Martin ($9.6M), PJ ($14.2M), and Gafford ($14.4M). The latter two would be expiring and, particularly Gafford, maybe not guys worth with Flagg/AD/Lively in the mix already. Even with Kyrie out, it's an expensive bench and might be ripe for a consolidation trade which could save money in the first place.

This wouldn't work as is once they fill out the roster, but does feel practical that they'd also be making other deals that could make this feasible. So even though this may not enable DAL to fill out their roster, I think it's practical enough that other moves would be made to enable it that I'd ask mods leave it open for larger discussion. Jrue to DAL is a popular idea anyway and will present a lot of those same needed follow ups.

Godaddycurse wrote:trade 1 is illegal for dallas. they are too close to 2nd apron. dont think sacramento need additional incentive back though. plenty of teams should absorb naji into exception

trade 2 carter cost more than 1 2nd to dump

in fact just give brooklyn the 28 to absorb both kleber and carter; they need to reach salary floor anyways

Adding responses on Carter and SAC since you updated after I responded to first point....

The SAC compensation was more for OMP who even at $3M is kind of dead weight even if he does have some 1st round pedigree. But maybe if Naji is seen as good enough to take into the exception then that's a fine cost to pay for it?

I'm not smart enough to follow 2nd round pick trades. I imagine BOS would be willing to add any of their held picks to complete this though since the 2nds are simply worth far more than 2nds. But, if they run out of ways ot execute these deals, they could always ship Hauser into a TPE too for some of the savings and then either keep one of Vincent or Kleber (or still trade them but not need to totally clear money).

BRK already has a lot of picks so I didn't think they'd be a good candidate for more this year. But maybe #28 helps them execute a consolidation trade?

Lakers say hell no, they trying to get younger and build around Luka, this does not do that.

Rather keep Gabe and Maxi

SlimShady83 wrote:Lakers say hell no, they trying to get younger and build around Luka, this does not do that.

Luka is in his prime. He's been a win now player since his 2nd year. LA is building around Luka, yes. Prioritizing being young instead of being as good as possible? Probably not. Especially not with only a year until he can become a free agent.

Doesn't mean this is the deal. I would certainly explore other options with my matching expiring salary. But I would expect LA to try and add talent, young or not.

Bulls say, No thanks

They have gotten along without a lot of SRP's. Yes Porzingas has more highlights time than Vucevic, he misses a lot more games too. The Bulls do need to move Vucevic, would like to trade Carter but Porzingas is going to try to pad his stats so he gets another NBA contract, he's going to take shots away from Buzelis who is the future. This is the mish mash you come up when you keep clicking the trade machine to get a deal approved but it doesn't help all the teams you've had to add to make the numbers match

Detroit are not tanking, they don't have cap space to absorb salary and they will use their MLE to bring Beasley back.

Texas Chuck wrote:

SlimShady83 wrote:Lakers say hell no, they trying to get younger and build around Luka, this does not do that.

Luka is in his prime. He's been a win now player since his 2nd year. LA is building around Luka, yes. Prioritizing being young instead of being as good as possible? Probably not. Especially not with only a year until he can become a free agent.

Doesn't mean this is the deal. I would certainly explore other options with my matching expiring salary. But I would expect LA to try and add talent, young or not.

Only way this deal would get done, Is If Lakers want to clear cap space and open a rostor spot and letting Nikola walk In FA -clearing up cap space?, Just don't see It happening.

Lakers certainly not getting Nikola for longterm and say "Hey Luka we got Nikola" you and him gonna win lol

Gabe Is an ok player and plays both ends of the floor and Maxi has chemistry with Luka, just no way I'm doing this deal If I'm the Lakers.

I would offer the same players another player and SRP's for John Collins

seems easier than this , picks could be worked out i'm sure ?

PELS - KP, Clarke

BOS - Oly,Konchar,Huff

MEM - Herb Jones , Hauser

MEM loads up
Bos sheds salary
Pels stockpile picks

could probably work Den in as well.