01-29-2025, 08:24 AM
If we theorize it is a 3 way with
Butler to PHX
Beal to GS
[some package of players] to MIA
...then it's hard to see GS's interest. For all the salary they have to cobble together to match, it's questionable if GS gets enough value in Beal, and his massive salary would clog their cap for 2 more years.
What seems more likely would be a 2-team trade that's a 2-for-2, with PHX left out, and Wiggins + Green going to MIA, and Butler + ____ to GS.
The tricky part is that both teams are rules-limited in what they can take. MIA can't take back any extra. GS only has a small sliver of room under Apron 1, so they are in the same boat. That means an exact dollar match would work, but no that's not really available.
However there has been a rumor that GS is shopping Looney in a salary dump, to get under the tax line which they really want to do, to reset their repeater penalties. Once they did that, it could ease the restrictions enough to make something like that 2-for-2 possible.
Butler to PHX
Beal to GS
[some package of players] to MIA
...then it's hard to see GS's interest. For all the salary they have to cobble together to match, it's questionable if GS gets enough value in Beal, and his massive salary would clog their cap for 2 more years.
What seems more likely would be a 2-team trade that's a 2-for-2, with PHX left out, and Wiggins + Green going to MIA, and Butler + ____ to GS.
The tricky part is that both teams are rules-limited in what they can take. MIA can't take back any extra. GS only has a small sliver of room under Apron 1, so they are in the same boat. That means an exact dollar match would work, but no that's not really available.
However there has been a rumor that GS is shopping Looney in a salary dump, to get under the tax line which they really want to do, to reset their repeater penalties. Once they did that, it could ease the restrictions enough to make something like that 2-for-2 possible.
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