NatP4 wrote:Wonder how much value we would have to send back to get Drummond and Bradley?
Forget Bradley. He is expiring; we wouldn't be able to keep him.
As to Drummond: for starters, he has a max contract, so we'd have to send at least one of Wall/Beal/Porter.
But... this idea -- & any others like it -- are pointless, b/c they don't recognize our actual situation or any other reality.
Season after next we will be presented w/ an almost impossible roster situation, even assuming we've rid ourselves of Mahinmi. We will have over $92m guaranteed to 3 players, yet we will also have to have extended Oubre (unless we are dumb enough to have allowed him to become an unrestricted FA at season's end) & Satoransky (unless we'd like to utterly waste him as an asset).
Oubre/Sato combined will not cost less than $22m (probably more), with most of it going to Oubre of course. That's $114m for 5 players. Maybe $7m under the tax. Needing 9 more players for a minimum roster.
But, lets be optimistic, & assume that we have our 2018 & 2019 picks on the roster too. In which case, we will be, at best, @ $3m under the tax at best. & 7 players short of a minimum roster.
How do you imagine being able to solve that problem, Nat?
The only imaginable start on solving it would be to trade one of Wall/Beal/Porter between now & then, right? While taking back short term salaries that will be gone when the above fun starts.
But, a max player is actually not a great trade asset, b/c economics makes it hard to trade him for anything but another max player. Obviously, that wouldn't help us.
That's why, please, you need to stop thinking about Andre Drummond. It's also why you need to stop proposing trades that cost us a draft pick. They don't help.
What would help would be to think of trades that get rid of Mahinmi w/o costing us a pick or taking on salary beyond next year, b/c if you add Mahinmi's $15.45m salary in 2019-20 to the above picture you can certainly kiss Oubre goodbye!
