dagger wrote:djsunyc wrote:dagger wrote:With all of these Brown Brown rumours except perhaps the Knicks with the Fournier contract, the teams most interested have the least to offer in terms of picks or prospects as well as short-term money. I mean what are the Lakers going to offer? Max Christie's contract would require a cap clogger like Hashimura, and they aren't going to send Austin Reaves. The Nuggets? The have a couple of young players, butto make the money work they would have to include Caldwell-Pope, which they won't. This repeats itself over and over as you scan the list of interested teams. Miami? They have a good expiring in Kyle, but aren't likely to include Jovic and certainly not Jaquez. I don't think this is going to be easy as some media think, since Masai has made it clear he wants prospects and flexibility more than picks, and the buyers lining up for Brown either have the expiring but not necessarily the right incentive, or they have the incentive player but not the short-term contracts needed to balance a deal.
For the Raptors to take on significant money that goes past next season, I'd say Masai will want more than one carrot, likely a really worthy prospect + pick that won't be near the end of the first round. Not easy to see where that will come from, since NYK wants to hang on to its first round picks to make a much bigger swing if the opportunity presents itself.
i think the optimal team is okc.
People keep suggesting OKC and the Bertans contact, but everything I've been reading is that OKC wants to take a bigger swing this summer with the Bertans contract. I don;t seem them interested in Brown, but I've wondered if Schroeder works there because he's a veteran PG with solid playoff experience and he was good in his time in OKC. He could also play a few minutes with Shai and not just back him up.
okc actually needs yak more than anyone else b/c they don't have a legit center to matchup in the playoffs but he has too many years left.
