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

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THJ had some value earlier this season when he was shooting well and helping the team win games.  

He's been really bad the last several months though and is no longer worth his contract next season.  

I think it's unlikely that a team like Detroit will just take on his salary as a favor to us much less trade us draft capital to do so.  

I think we'd have to give up multiple 2nd-round picks in order to have a team take THJ into capspace.  I say this as a longtime THJ defender.  He's been bad recently and other organizations watch the games just like we do.  

It will be worth it though to free up the space to re-sign DJJ to a reasonable contract.

Although it appears Detroit is willing to take on bad contracts for additional draft capital as they've done recently (Joe Harris for example) I don't think they'll continue that practice, because it hasn't worked for them. They already have 60 million in cap space next season. They need direction from a new GM.