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I think it's well known I'm not high on Powell and what he can provide on the court these days. I agree that if he or Jones were getting any real minutes when it matters, we're in a bad way anyway. I personally just enjoy watching the uber athletic big that brings some excitement on game day. I don't necessarily view him as a player that's going to put it all together and become a rotational Big here for the next 5 years, but I do feel pretty strongly that Powell won't be. So, it's really just a preference thing.

Yeah, I mean if it's just about who you prefer watching for this one year I get it. 

My point is that either guy is likely gone next year anyway. Powell is expiring and Jones would be on a 1-year minimum, I assume. There's no point even considering looking for a perennial 3rd center who's a cheap plus until you're not already paying MLE+ money to guy who has that actual job covered. 

It's certainly not worth attaching a 2nd to get off of one year of Powell money just to avoid "losing" Jones, imho, and even if you can find a team who'd take him if you sent cash to pay part or all of his salary (I'm guessing you could easily do that), I'd have a hard time justifying that to the guy who actually has to send the money, end of day. Again, if Gafford was gone and I actually thought one of Powell/Jones would play this season in even a slightly extended version of my everyday rotation, I'd really think hard about options like that. But, I'd also widen the net a little and consider whether or not Jones was the ideal guy. It might be that he is the guy you'd want in that scenario, everything considered, but my point is that missing out on him isn't going to be something we look back on in three years as some huge missed opportunity. There will always be Kai Jones types around the fringes of the NBA, looking for opportunities. The trick is to make the right choices to fill the opportunities you have, not bend over backwards to create opportunities for them.