Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[loki]

My two cents on our off-season: Simple plan

- Draft Flagg at #1. Duh.

- Trade Hardy/'30 PHI 2nd for a protected (top-55 2nd). Bunch of teams could adquire him, I'm sure some young squad could use him properly (BKN, WAS, etc..).

- Re-sign Kyrie at 120M/3y (2+1) starting as 38.000.000. Tricky, but if Ky wants to compete, he'd have to help us on this next contract to at least use the TP-MLE.

- Sign Tyus Jones at TP-MLE starting at 5.685.000 (hard-caps us at 2nd apron). Starting is clearly a priority to him and we would provide that for 60 games + a well-rounded defensive team to hide him.

- Re-sign Exum for the vet. min starting at 3.303.774 (counts 2.296.274 towards the cap). Kidd mentioned him by name which to me indicates he prefers his kit over Dinwiddie's.

Jones (28)/Williams (12)/Marshall (8)
Thompson (26)/Christie (16)/Martin (6)/Exum (GT)
Flagg (22)/Marshall (14)/Washington (10)/Martin (2)
Davis (26)/Washington (16)/Flagg (6)/Prosper (GT)
Lively (24)/Gafford (18)/Davis (6)/Powell (GT)

- Martin should probably play GT, but i bet Kidd won't give him DNPs given his rep.
- Kyrie would take Tyus minutes and Tyus takes the full backup role (18-24 mpg).
- Exum would fight B-Will for minutes (maybe both get 6).
- Would love to get Ajinca as a 15th-man if we could dump DP as well (would sign for a multi-year starting at min 1.272.870).

Pretty reasonable. Tre Jones and CP3 could be other options for the TP-MLE spot. I hope both Dinwiddie and Exum are gone. I'd also like to see Kai Jones re-signed, although he might not have much of a role if Davis/Lively/Gafford are all here.