ConSarnit wrote:kalel123 wrote:NotMyKawhi wrote:The biggest mistake was not trading brown for an expiring and 1st. Would solve all our money problems
If they could've got a first, I would think trade would've already been made. Also, for a team to trade an expiring contract at deadline AND a first round pick, they would have to be pretty convinced of Brown's contribution to winning. Biggest mistake was overestimating his value in trade market thinking they could turn around and trade him.
They have one last chance in the draft. If a team was desperate to unload a contract, they could attach a draft pick to the contract to trade for Brown and cut him right away to be off the hook. Webster made a huge deal about the uniqueness of how his contract is structured so make use of it. If that fails, I would seriously consider just cutting him loose. But chances are, they'll probably keep him around just in case similar to how they kept Thad Young around almost to the bitter end.
I don’t think a team that trades for Brown can cut him. I believe he has to be opted in before he can be traded because if he’s not opted in he’s considered expired and therefor not tradable. His value as an expiring (this year) really only applies to us now.
(I’m not 100% confident the above is true, just trying to remember what another poster who is more familiar with the CBA said about Brown and his option).
You are 100% correct. We cannot trade him unless we pick up his option. We had to move him by the trade deadline, or we pick up the option and try and trade him in the off season. It's why it was such a bad idea to hold onto him, he went from guaranteed value, to potentially another UFA walking.
The only rumoured trade of value was the knicks offering fournier and a 2024 FRP. And the knicks specifically chose to offer the 2024 pick, and not any others, because the draft is weak. The likelihood of him being traded for a 2025 FRP is pretty low, and the only teams that have genuine use for him either have nothing to offer of value (suns for example), or would be incredibly stupid to give up a bunch of assets to shed a little bit of salary (GSW for example).
The potential suitors are bad to non-existent now, holding onto him was a mistake.