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

[KillerLeft]

When I was writing this I had an entire paragraph devoted to Green coming to Dallas and Gafford going to Phoenix.  I pulled it because it muddled the main point I wanted to make.  I'm not a Green fan, but he's not trash.  He is overpaid for the role he's best suited for (and that isn't the Ant Edwards Alpha role).  Someone in Phoenix needs to go.  I don't see Dallas as the most likely destination, but I could hold my nose and build a package around Gafford and depth.  At that point, your youth movement is Flagg, Lively, Christie and Green.

Not the deal I hope they make, but it's forward progress, as it moves talent/salary from center, where they have too much, to guard, where they aren't remotely close to having enough. And, they get younger in the process, while avoiding losing Gafford for nothing or selling him for much lower on his next deal. That would be selling pretty damn high, given where the two players' reps where a year or two ago, even if I don't love Green.

I'd do it and wouldn't even have to hold my nose.