Trade & FA 2024-25:

[Jason Terry]

Martin's 25/26 contract is NG.   $8.1mm obviously isn't a trade match.  But, Charlotte has space.  So, we'd be asking them to eat up about $8mm of that space.  I'm not sure this costs much, if anything.  Charlotte needs O.  In fact, maybe they pay us something.

Martin's contract is small enough that you could keep him and get DJJ a starting number around $10mm-$11mm and still have a cushion.  Or, like we discussed regarding Shamet, you could stretch-waive his one guaranteed year and be able to afford a BAE player instead of keeping Martin.

I think it is interesting the way this one and the Shamet rumor work out financially.  It is splashier to talk about Grant and Avdija and Tobias and such.  But these kind of money saving deals get "Priority 1A and 1B" done.  Then you figure out any other opportunity as it presents itself.

The rules have become extremely complicated. From my understanding since players aren’t being aggregated, Martin (or whomever in a swap like this) would be eligible to be traded again immediately? Or would he not be able to be aggregated with other players for X days? 

Regardless, this type of deal makes sense if we don’t find the right deal initially. The only business that’s time sensitive is 1) re-signing Jones Jr and 2) dumping Hardaway 

With the bad blood i don’t think Hardaway can go all summer without being traded 

Green + Martin contract would be a much better trade package than one with THJ.