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

[DallasMaverick]

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.

It remains to be seen how the rest of the league values THJ.

We fans turn pretty quickly on our own players who aren’t performing well, but outsiders can hold on to an opinion about a player even when they’re playing poorly.

Just think of all the positivity we’ve seen on this board about players like Gordon Hayward. He hasn’t played well in a while, but we remember back to some great years he’s had, and wonder if there’s anything left in the tank. Maybe his non-performance was due to his situation, or a coach who just didn’t use or appreciate him properly.

I can guarantee that there are fans, and maybe GM’s, who think the same way about Timmy.