paulpressey25 wrote:Would love to see the Bucks get in on a Hibbert to the Cav's trade as the third team.
And I'm open to dealing Sanders there IF we actually could somehow get real value from them.
Waiters could be a good fit on the Pacers now that Stephenson is gone but I'm not sure he would be so good for them where they'd want to set up the Cavs like this -- unless they think their window with Paul George is already closed.
Either way it's interesting to think about what Cleveland is up to now particularly in the recent context of the Bogans trade. Marc Stein seems to think that was about gearing up for bigger action this summer:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11598 ... phia-76ers
Cleveland hopes that, by moving Bogans into the Sixers' cap space, its new trade exception generated by this deal can prove as valuable as a trade chip and simply keeping Bogans and dangling him in potential deals over the next several months.
The Cavs still possess another valuable potential trade piece in veteran center Brendan Haywood, whose $10.5 million salary in 2015-16 is fully unguaranteed and thus likely to appeal to teams seeking cap relief.
Cleveland can now no longer aggregate the contracts of Bogans and Haywood next summer to potentially pursue a player with a superstar salary, but trading Bogans away now likely ensures that the Cavs will have no luxury-tax issues at season's end.
If the Cavs were about to pull the trigger on a Hibbert deal you'd think they would have preferred to use Bogans' contract combined with Haywood's weird deal to get to max-salary cap space.
