Realistic options to move deron williams?

[MrDollarBills]

You guys have nothing of value besides your pick. If you want to absorb his salary and give us a trade exception I'd be game.

So, you'd be fine with Nash + trade exception?

Absolutely. This would be a GODSEND for us. we could actually get under SALARY CAP, let along the luxury tax with this move. we would have the Full MLE, which would allow us to retain Livingston, and we could sign and trade and get someone like stephenson:

Livingston | Nash
Stephenson | Anderson
Johnson | Bogdanovic
Pierce | AK
Plumlee | Lopez

roungly 14M in committed salary in 2016 (steohenson, bogs, plumlee)

If could then move lopez for a draft pick. wow. that would be unreal.

I doubt anyone gives us a draft pick for Brook, but on paper that team would be better than the one that we have now. Morale would also be higher because that bitch Deron would be gone

[Prokorov]

So, you'd be fine with Nash + trade exception?

Absolutely. This would be a GODSEND for us. we could actually get under SALARY CAP, let along the luxury tax with this move. we would have the Full MLE, which would allow us to retain Livingston, and we could sign and trade and get someone like stephenson:

Livingston | Nash
Stephenson | Anderson
Johnson | Bogdanovic
Pierce | AK
Plumlee | Lopez

roungly 14M in committed salary in 2016 (steohenson, bogs, plumlee)

If could then move lopez for a draft pick. wow. that would be unreal.

I doubt anyone gives us a draft pick for Brook, but on paper that team would be better than the one that we have now. Morale would also be higher because that bitch Deron would be gone

I can certainly see us getting a pick for brook. not a lotto pick, but a first rounder. their are too many teams with multiple picks that already have a ton of 1st and 2nd year players that wont benefit from a pick in the teens and twenties. the 76ers, the suns... or on the flip side if you are OKC, who also has 2 picks, why wouldnt you flip the later pick and perkins for lopez?

[bobbyc]

OKC is going to shift to desperation mode soon with KDs free agency coming up.

They are certainly going to trade 1 of those picks for a veteran player especially if they get annihilated in these playoffs.

The problem is we would have to take back Perkins and then 4mill of other contracts.

#21 pick of this draft could be pretty solid. TJ Warren, K. Anderson, Payne, Hood, or Lavine could end up that late and all good potential.

[Prokorov]

OKC is going to shift to desperation mode soon with KDs free agency coming up.

They are certainly going to trade 1 of those picks for a veteran player especially if they get annihilated in these playoffs.

The problem is we would have to take back Perkins and then 4mill of other contracts.

#21 pick of this draft could be pretty solid. TJ Warren, K. Anderson, Payne, Hood, or Lavine could end up that late and all good potential.

I dont see how thats an issue. perkins expires, and we'd save 12M on next years cap/tax. thats an easy deal for me to make, and i dont mind perkins as a 3rd center

[bobbyc]

OKC is going to shift to desperation mode soon with KDs free agency coming up.

They are certainly going to trade 1 of those picks for a veteran player especially if they get annihilated in these playoffs.

The problem is we would have to take back Perkins and then 4mill of other contracts.

#21 pick of this draft could be pretty solid. TJ Warren, K. Anderson, Payne, Hood, or Lavine could end up that late and all good potential.

I dont see how thats an issue. perkins expires, and we'd save 12M on next years cap/tax. thats an easy deal for me to make, and i dont mind perkins as a 3rd center

Problem being they don't have the trade pieces beyond Perkins to make a trade happen with Lopez. They are going to want to keep Jackson, Adams, Collison, and Lamb in order to compete. So, Perkins + Roberson, Thabeet, and Jones is not enough salary for a straight up trade with Lopez. Just barely short and there is no one else that is eligible to be traded.

Even in a three team trade, I don't see how it could happen.