Trade & FA 2023-24: Lavine Market Barely There| NOP Want Trae or Murray

[Scott41theMavs]

Are you telling me they have higher value then THJ/Green/1st? I can see maybe Herro, but the other two should be gettable for this package (maybe add 2nds).

Im not including O-max/Hardy. Gafford could be available for the right piece (i want way more of lively).

OK, my post was a little muddled. It's not just the cost in trade for those guys. It's a ton of other factors as well: 1) in the new CBA era, and with Luka soon to be the highest paid player in league history, you cannot let guys like those three stooges take up as much of your cap as they do on their current contracts. At all. Moreover, as we have seen with THJ, when you have guys who are paid like that we aren't expiring, you feel an obligation to give them minutes. If they hurt your defense and otherwise make your team worse, then no, you don't want someone like that on your team. 

I will address the wider issue in responding to another argument going on here in the thread.