06-28-2024, 07:53 AM
(06-28-2024, 12:50 AM)Jym Wrote: Gotta think Grimes for Hardway +2nd rounders is not an option now after seeing recent salary dumps
pivoting to taking salary like a Hunter or Wiggins might just make more sense. And we might even get an asset or 2 out of it
I kind of see two paths and given the rumors, they apparently see them also. One is basically status quo. Move THJ, keep DJJ and move on. Right now the Shamet version of this seems most likely. You aren't asking Washington to eat $16mm, just the spread between Shamet and THJ (assuming they were going to keep Shamet). You only have to guarantee enough to trade match and you can S/W that if you wish for under $3mm per year. Plenty of room at that point for DJJ.
The other deal is what you are mentioning. Deal one or two of our guys for a bigger salary guy. The guy in question needs to be good enough that he upgrades DJJ because you won't be able to keep him if he won't take the $5.2mm exception. The interest in KCP is an example of this. Hunter and Wiggins are imperfect versions of this. Other names under about $27mm-$28mm include Simons, Draymond, Kuzma, Brown, Smart, Keldon, Sexton, Barnes, Isaac, Bogdanovic (ATL) and any free agent who might sign in this range (Thompson, Tobias, DeRozan and Trent Jr. besides KCP).
There never was a deadline around the draft. Most of these deals needed to wait until July to be executed anyway. The only benefit of a draft day deal would have been to soften the impact of some future outgoing asset by pairing it with an incoming asset in the late first or early second.