05-12-2025, 11:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-12-2025, 11:02 PM by ThisIStheYear.)
Hear me out. Trade AD, PJ, Klay, Calab, and Gaff mostly for expiring contracts and picks. Let Kyrie walk. That clears about $137 million off your cap. You’re $35 million over right now. You’ll want at least one building block long term contract from all that and have to sign your rookies. You should get back alot of pretty good picks. You’d still have Flagg, Lively, Max, Naji, maybe one other solid role player you obtained from the trades, a couple of players you’ve drafted. Maybe prosper or Hardy develop. Powell is gone so there’s a little more space. And then, you take your remaining $75 million in cap space shopping and sign the Don back when he’s free after next season. That’s my plan. Pretty much anything is possible when you get a player like Flagg on a rookie contract. Of course, Nico would have to be fired in this scenario; a sacrifice I’m willing to make.