winforlose wrote:younggunsmn wrote:shrink wrote:I posted about this in the other thread
Here’s the deal. Teams receiving a player in trade don’t want to trigger the first apron, so they want to send out more money than they take in. If they are close, that could mean sending a cheap salary to MIN.
So, of [PHX, HOU, ATL, BRK, GSW, LAL, MIN], which teams need to dump some cheap salary or create roster space?
What vet min or cheap players on these teams do you like? Connelly has some leverage here to get a decent player, because he could easily walk away from this deal, while other teams need it to go through. Find a cheap guy that might have some value.
I wouldn't get too excited.
MIN, BRK, GSW, and LAL only need to be looped in because of the draft pick trading in the 2nd round that Phoenix did with picks they got from Houston for Durant.
Houston and Atlanta have to be looped into the Durant trade to make the salary matching in the Capela sign and trade work.
(Interesting note, Atlanta got a 2031 2nd round pickswap for that which mirrors what we got from the Warriors in the Kyle Anderson deal last summer).
Every other player transaction (NAW, Finney-Smith) works as a separate transaction from the Durant trade.
Although if the Lakers could figure a way to get a TPE from Finney-Smith, it would be useful on their end.
But they could negotiate that separately with Houston and give them a small incentive.
Any team threatening to muck up the 2nd round draft pick dominoes by trying to extort more is just going to piss off a bunch of players, agents, and fellow GMs. I dont expect the trade to change at all from what's been reported unless some surprise team decides it wants Jalen Green or Dillon Brooks and their bad contracts.
And the Wolves are very likely finished when it comes to anything but a vet minimum addition.
Not that this will happen, nor that it should, but what happens if the Wolves don’t go along with the multi team framework. The deal they made was 31 for 36, they cannot exactly cancel it. If the Suns need the multi team to complete the deal, do the Wolves even have a choice other than to participate?
Wolves are not needed to make the rest work.
Trade down from 31 to 36 to 45 can be done as a 2nd set of post Durant trades since there is no salary involved.
If the Durant deal were to fall apart though, all those 2nd round pick transactions fall apart because they are predicated on picks the Suns received from Houston.
