Trade & FA 2024-25:

[DanSchwartzgan]

Truthfully Philly is tired of Harris mostly because he isn't good enough to be a 2nd-3rd option. 

He's a luxury. A great 4th option that can have big scoring nights but I'm not surprised Philly fans are sick and tired of the guy they were paying 40mil to average 15ppg.

In Dallas, he really just has to be able to hit a spot up 3 and occasionally get his own shot. Far cry from what he was asked to do in Philly. 

I remember when they had Butler and Harris was a 4th option he was pretty much universally loved in PHI, so much so that they chose handing him a 180 mil deal over extending Butler.

Harris at $45mm is a problem.  Harris at $15-$20mm would be good value.

Dad is his agent (like Kyrie’s mom).  Occasionally dad mouths off (like THJ’s dad)

Philly is a place where you could do a deal that allows you to do a S&T (which hard caps you) for Harris and keep DJJ.  You’d have to send out at least two players and then approximately split the outgoing salary somehow between DJJ and Harris.  So, for example in round numbers, maybe it is THJ/Green and Harris gets something around 3/$60mm and DJJ gets a little under the NTMLE.  Or, maybe it is Maxi and THJ?  You wouldn’t expect Philly to get much for a player they don’t want to keep.

The other side of the deal is the challenge.  It is hard to figure what Moray wants to do here.  They have lots of cap room and no one good to spend it on.  Is THJ for one year better than sinking big money into Hield on a multi-year deal?  Or, is THJ’s expiring getting shipped to a third team?  On a team with maybe 8-10 spots to fill, Green at $12mm probably makes sense.

If that is all it is and you keep DJJ, then for all intents and purposes you’ve traded Green for Tobias Harris at good money.  I’m a Green guy, but that is a better team.