bigfoot_cryptozoology wrote:RickyDizzle wrote:bigfoot_cryptozoology wrote:
Think about it this way:
After extending Jrue, will they shell out almost $30 M. for White?
$7.5 M. average salary is still not a lot to acquire anything of quality, especially when you can't aggregate up
contracts when over the 2nd Apron.
If White is back to being a 3rd guard, they might be better using his value and salary to acquire a young, quality Big
and have Pritch as the 3rd guard.
Trading White, because of his value and salary, opens up a lot more possibilities for bringing in, someone who can have an
impact.
Someone that can have impact, near d whites salary, like for example... Derrick White.
Actually better than White, since you'll have First Round Picks to package with him.
I'm still not totally on board with giving up 2 good players and 2 first rounders for an aging Holiday... Derrick White is the reason they could trade Smart for Porzingis. At some point we've got to roll with what we have and keep the moves to just the perimeter edges of the roster. Holiday, white, brown, Tatum, and porzingis, the likely starting 5, should stay for a while and the picks could be used with bench players to get better bench players.
Long story short, call me skeptical that White plus picks for another player is likely to help us in the long run.