Two Elite Free Agents

[Krapinsky]

hey sixers fan here, stumbled on this thread...

I'm not sure our FO would ever consider trading iggy. But from a fans perspective, the only deal I see working would have to include a top 5 pick. So it'd have to be a draft day deal, because we wouldn't ship him to you at the deadline to have our new pick lose its value.

What about something like Iggy for 1st, & maybe utah's first and then whoever you want to get rid of? That still leaves you with the Bob's lotto pick?

(not super familiar with your roster)

Again, I really don't think our front office is looking to move Iggy, to do it the offer would have to be pretty good.

If somehow our pick was not top 3, I would consider a deal around our pick, Gomes, and Brewer.

[shrink]

Here's a rough blueprint of the way to do this:

1. By the Deadline: Expirings + Flynn + some assets/picks for Chris Paul + Peja + Posey. Slide them under the lux now and next year, and we're adding $20 mil to the offer. I continue to say that it will not take all our assets if we provide enough financial relief.

2. This Summer: Sign-and-Trade Peja (now an expiring) plus the rest of our assets/picks for an elite FA. I think we can get this done without touching Jefferson, but Love may be the better player to keep anyway, because of his help financially. We'll have the MIN lottery pick/draft choice which should be one of the most valuable assets to a team that may lose a free agent for nothing. With Chris Paul + Al Jefferson, MIN will look a lot more appealing to a team for the elite free agent to join, because he'd have a chance of winning right away.

One big problem here is convincing Chris Paul that we want to build a contender. NOH can trade him without his consent to save enough money to keep the franchise, but we'd need CP3 to be happy to help sell the idea to the second free agent. He won't be happy getting dealt and waiting months to see who else will be joining him. The key to drawing a big free agent is to pay him, and give him a chance to win. If Paul and Taylor are on board, I think we can become an appealing free agent destination.

While I've always been a big advocate of raw cap space, if we go that route we lower our overall team payroll away from lux levels $63 and down to salary cap levels $53. We can get back up, but its a slow process because of the 125% + $100,000 cap match rule. However, if we're offering an expiring to get a S&T, and another team is offering raw cap space, we will probably need to include some pretty good assets to beat their deal.

I think its amazing that in three years, MIN has acquired enough assets to even consider that we have enough valuable assets and financial relief that we may be able to trade for not one, but two elite players.