SMTBSI wrote:ConstableGeneva wrote:BTW, Hornets can just engage some other team to dump salary and not involve us at all. Then sign Hayward outright once they clear enough cap space. No TPE for us in that case. Just some salty tears and those stains on the wall from the **** I keep throwing.
Even in that case, nothing preventing it from being formatted as a S&T. Very curious to see if they turn down the free pick just to spite us. Hard for me to imagine an FO actually conducting business that way - intentionally harming themselves to spite another team. But you never know. Humans are weird.
Also, we recently just helped them out in a similar way. From the CHA board:
Maybe worth noting: when we traded Kemba for Rozier, there was no incentive for Boston to help us do that. They had capspace for Kemba, but we needed help to get Rozier.
As expected, we sent them a 2nd round pick (became Yam Madar), but surprisingly we got them to send us one back (Riller).
We had 0 leverage in that deal, yet we still pulled a minor asset out of it. All that to say, it makes sense for both teams to agree to a sign-and-trade, but I wouldn't expect a major coup here.
Is CHA going to accept our goodwill, then, in a very similar situation, turn around and spite us? That would be pretty crappy. The optimist in me is telling me not to just assume so because everything always has to be awful.
