Beal+PHX Agree to Buyout - PHX to S/W Beal | Beal Signs w/LAC 1+1 11mil

[omahen]

I just think this S/W trend is bananas. I'm not sure what alternate route I'd have suggested for either PHX or MIL, but wowzers, what a mess.

I found it interesting that teams are not willing to trade for these expiring vets and we see buyouts that very rarely happened before TDL in the past. Ayton, Clarkson, Okogie, rumors about Smart, Middleton having same fate. Surely I forgot some more examples. Sexton and Collins were just given away and there are probably more examples. OKC made a fortune trading for players on longer term deals (receiving assets in the process) and then flipping them as expiring for new assets. Now it seems teams are just losing with this approach.