Netaman wrote:Just double checked and trade exceptions do count against the guaranteed salary not total salary, so the KD trade exception will fit to bring in Murray if they want.
This would be separate deals functionally, but practically speaking would anyone else do this?
Cam Thomas, Philly 2027, KD TE
for
Murray
hawks have bufkin and young, cam would give them a little more of a traditional scorer than another on the ball option. pure cap savings of 15m+lux tax is = to a frp.
i think that's my plan b if lillard doesnt happen over FVV.
So first thing, just my opinion, but Murray is not a guy I'd currently target. He's wildly inefficient and isn't a big floor raiser on his own. He's a final piece kind of player, but the problem is he has a #1/2 option mentality.
He's Jrue Holiday with Russel Westbrook's mindset.
Second, with that being said, I don't think that Philly pick can ever be the centerpiece to any trade, unless it's the 25-26 season, mid-season and it looks like that pick will exactly fall into that 9-19 range, where it conveys without a jump, but isn't so late it's a throw-in. As of now, it looks more likely it becomes a 2nd round pick, or a ho hum early 20's kind of pick.
Cam Thomas is also just a sweetener, not a real deal asset.
Don't believe Murray would command a ton of value, but a little something better than the above.
I don't love Trae, but at this point he's becoming underrated. I see his huge salary and playoff struggles, he usually starts seasons off slow, he has issues with defense for sure, but man does he do some damage and he's only 24. He's a lock top 30 player who just needs a few things tightened up in his game to become a perennial top 15-20 guy.
He definitely dominates the ball too much, but who else should he share with on the rosters he's been on? He definitely needs to dig in on D more, but he's legitimately shown he's beginning to finally buy-in to that concept lately. He needs to work on his shot selection as well, but when he's on fire, he's bombing. He commits a lot of turnovers, but he also has to have a uber high usage rate right now and with all the assists, it's not like his A/TO ratio is awful.
With that contract, I could see him coming on the cheap tbh. Like Simmons/Dinwiddie/Joe Harris/Cam T/one of the later Phoenix picks/Philly pick for him and one of John Collins or DeAndre Hunter.
were they thinking?!", conversations in a few years. And I say that believing Bridges will probably be a 22/5/3 guy with good defense the rest of his prime.
