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

[mvossman]

1) I think adding Beal AND Russell gets to diminishing returns territory most nights. I'm fine with Russell, Exum and Williams (unless an opportunity at a real asset that fits with the Flagg timeline presents itself).

2) I suspect he'll do better than the minimum, though I suppose getting stretch waived provides him the option of going wherever he wants, regardless of remuneration, but I'd bet it's hard for a guy like that (or Dame) to accept a minimum salary, status wise. I suspesct once the introductory press conference (where he'll be treated like Brad Beal) concluded, there would be subtle ways in which he was treated differently, and not in a way he's interested in abiding.

I think Beal probably would have been a better option than Dlo at the tax MLE, but I don't he would have come here and its too late regardless.