Post#17 » by Slax » Wed Feb 15, 2017 11:25 pm
I'm increasingly convinced that the best time to trade is over the offseason, because we can agree to a trade in principal before using some clever ordering of roster moves to maximize the salary we can take on.
1. Draft.
2. Agree in principle to a trade for a player in the $20 million range (eg Butler, Cousins) in exchange for Bradley + Crowder/Smart/Brown + filler + pick(s). We can make any trade for a player up to $5M above our outgoing salary because we are not a taxpayer.
3. Tell Hayward and Griffin about the pending trade to convince them they would be joining a four star superteam. Get a commitment from one of them to sign for the max.
4. Renounce KO.
5. Sign player to max deal.
6. Execute the trade to bring the team above the cap.
If the 2017 pick is included in the trade, you don't renounce KO, execute the trade before the free agent signing, then sign KO long term above the cap. Either way we end up giving up cap space for the foreseeable future, but that was going to happen as soon as we re-sign IT anyway. And in fact I think we would still be eligible for non taxpayer MLE and BAE next offseason, so we could feasibly become an absurdly deep superteam if circumstances permit and the owners are willing to shell out an enormous amount of money.
what a hilarious trade proposal.
