Saberestar wrote:Ghost of Kleine wrote:
The actual 3 minute Pat McAfee clip discussing the potential KD trade destinations and teams he's rumored to like this summer.
That’s why people need to be more positive about our position next summer.
We are gonna have serveral options with KD on the roster or trading KD for a nice package. He has high value around the league because he is great yet, everyone can see it.
It'd be surprising news if it were to somehow, actually to happen, but it's far more likely that we really won't have several options (as a 2nd apron team) with KD still on the roster man. These premises (tweet above) are based upon the idea of trading KD for smaller cost-controlled contracts, and or draft assets, etc., but without moving KD or Beal, we're still a 2nd apron team with almost zero options aside from maybe vet minimums and two-way players. We'd have to offload BOTH of Allen and O'neale and decline Milicic, and waive stretch Martin just to clear around 40 million.
But even then, unless we're planning on filling out our roster with a ton of vet mins and two ways, we'll end up right back over the 2nd apron if we trade for any mid-level or greater-salaried players. Neither are good options/ outcomes really! Now,if you're referencing trading Beal as the primary mechanism for your "several options with KD on the roster" statement, we've already tried that and failed repeatedly because of that very important detail that everyone absentmindedly ignores or otherwise just sidesteps entirely! Beal's No-Trade Clause.
So unless he's actually willing to waive his NTC this summer and agree to go to someplace that'll give us something good back, we're not going to really have several options that'll move the needle for us or come close to changing our overall competitive trajectory. Because even if by some anomalous miracle, some team actually does agree to take on his money, it'll cost us anywhere from one or two picks, leaving us with no picks now to utilize in trades and we'll also still have to be taking back some equitable levels of bad contracts/ bad money on top of those picks just to move off of him.
And that's a really shortsighted outcome that'll only set us back further in asset/value loss! We'd be much better served to just hold onto him one more season or at least until next seasons' deadline when he'll be viewed as a huge expiring that will change his scalable value perception under this current CBA, with the outcome hopefully being us no longer needing to add picks/ incentives in a trade. And in his final year, after next season, he'll be much more receptive to waiving his NTC in a trade so he could audition for his new team and the next (possibly last big contract)! Otherwise, if he doesn't agree to waive it, we could just play hardball and sit him for a bit, and his market value will plummet further,r affecting his next contract value, and he definitely won't want that.
In the meantime, hold onto him and have him come off the bench as a nuclear super 6th man microwave scorer to not only bolster our bench production but also make it more potent! But with the mutual understanding that he's showcasing himself for his next contract! So he'll have to show out if he wants to score one last big contract!
