Skybox wrote:good news...our problems are solved:
1) Draft Devin Carter or McCain if he drops
2) Make this deal...
CLE sends: Mobley, Strus
CLE gets: Mikal Bridges
Assuming Mitchell is sticking around (or even if he's not), Bridges is that special 2-way SF every team wants and CLE has lacked. Paired with Allen, Garland, and Mitchell, they're improved and much better balanced. Even if Mitchell wants to go-he'll fetch a lot back and CLE will have a very nice young core to keep proceeding. Bridges could be the key to keeping Mitchell.
ORL sends: Anthony Black, ORL 25 frp, DEN 25 frp, ORL 27 frp
ORL gets: Mobley
ORL squints and sees rookie extension hell but that's the reality of an ultra-young, perfectly matched core. They'd still have plenty of cap to find that FA scoring Lead Guard this summer (Monk?) before working on THREE very large rookie extensions and Paolo's max next summer.
BRK sends: Mikal Bridges
BRK gets : Anthony Black, 3 frps from ORL
BRK will have a ton of cap space when Simmons expires. AB could become a solid counterbalance to Cam Thomas, while they rebuild through the draft. AB and a re-upped Claxton could form a sound, long, defensive foundation. IF Simmons comes around, he WAS All-NBA not too long ago....lotta picks
3) Sign Monk on the first minute of FA for a descending 4 year deal, averaging $20m. Sign a vet PG like Kris Dunn for a 2 yr team-friendly deal.
ORL Lineup to contend for a decade:
Mosley, WCJ, Mo
Paolo, Isaac, WCJ
Franz, Houstan
Suggs, Jett, Queen or Kevon
Monk, Devin Carter, Dunn
Young, defensive-minded, deep, versatile
I would be very interested in acquiring Mobley, assuming he isn't expecting some ridiculous extension or isn't mad about ORL waiting to match.
But if we are doing a deal that can basically net Mikal Bridges instead, you just take Mikal Bridges instead hah. Excepting for age a little bit, he is actually one of the most perfect fits to the Magic out there (for me, at least).
I can take both though, do the locked as underpaid WCJ as one of the centerpieces for Mobley (while CLE pivots to just one big man).
Finish it off by signing Monk away, and it's a bit of an all chips in one summer accidentally, but in the kind of way where I'm genuinely like, yeah we're doing this.
Mobley / Mo / Goga
Paolo / Isaac
Franz / Houstan
Mikal / Monk / Jett
Suggs / Devin