positivetension wrote:OakleyDokely wrote:NinjaBro wrote:I don't understand how we got all that Jalen freaking McDaniels but we can't get anything for Boucher.
We need to trade Siakam for AJ Griffin before it's too late! - PhilBlackson
Cap space is king.
McDaniels had no value, the Raps were just willing to absorb more money coming back.
It makes me wonder if they misjudged by picking up Brown. No Brown and no GTJ means they could have charged teams for salary relief whereas the market for Brown seems very uncertain.
It's not a question of if. I think we did misjudge picking up Brown. I think there was an assumption that Brown's expiring would be valued and we could extract some value out of him. And I know people are saying that we have to wait until the trade deadline (LMAO, the goal posts kept moving from the day free agent signings can begin, to when the George/Thompson/etc... situations settle, to when Summer League starts, to trade deadline now), but let's be real with ourselves -- Masai gambled that Brown could be turned into something good, but it hasn't materialized.
Like you, I would rather have not picked up Brown. It would have been awesome to be a team that has the flexibility to absorb a bad contract while collecting assets (picks and/or young controllable players with potential). Oh well... maybe next season?
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