Trade & FA 2024-25:

[DanSchwartzgan]

Green and Kleber = 23.6mil for Cameron Johnson's 23.6mil.

Something to bear in mind.  It isn't that we can't send out less than we take back.  Its that if we do we are capped out at a certain number.  If we (as we presume and your trade presumes) give DJJ more than $5.2mm, we are hard-capped anyway.  So, $23.6mm isn't the limitation.  $178.6mm in total salary is the limitation.

So, what you can take back for Green/Maxi is more a product of:  

1. What does DJJ actually get (I think part of why we haven't heard an announcement is that number is flexible right now depending on what happens elsewhere).  

2.  Do we keep 15 or 14 players.

For the most part, it is a difference without a distinction because you can't go too far above your $23.6mm number and if you do, it means you've convinced DJJ to both come off the bench and take under the full $12.8 they could use with the MLE

Other than Cam Johnson, I think Kuzma is in this range as well as maybe Dejounte Murray and Draymond.  I'll mention Simons, but I don't see him being available.  As you get to Wiggins money you are probably tapped out.  Once you go past that, you are adding another body to the outgoing and needing to replace them with a minimum (or, you are forgoing keeping DJJ).  So, Grant is doable, but Grant and DJJ seems unrealistic without knowing that DJJ takes a dramatically smaller number than most assume (or I assume to be more specific).  Part of the reason the FA's are being mentioned so much is you can design your offer to KCP or Thompson around the room you have left.