01-21-2026, 01:57 PM
(01-21-2026, 12:55 PM)mvossman Wrote: Agreed, and [1] I think it will cheaper in assets to do it for this season as there seems to be a lot of expiring contract available on the market, but [2] not a lot of teams with a ton of cap space in the offseason. The number to get there is also smaller for this season than next (especially if we hit it big in the lottery).
Yes the amount of ground to cover is smaller this season. But it's about 17M now, so still a fairly big leap (for example, some team takes ALL 3 of Martin, Hardy, and Exum and sends back no one).
But I don't follow your other points, and wonder if they aren't backwards.
1 Don't expiring contracts help NEXT season not this one? For example, you could trade for KP (or McCollum) and that 30M is still on the payroll this season, but gone next year if you just let him walk.
2 Isn't there much more cap room in the summer than right now, before rosters are filled and cap room is spent? A team can also take a player using their MLE etc.
3 I also wonder if the roster limits right now make it harder to find a taker in a salary dump (or 3).
* Dumont reportedly "has no problem going into next year with a healthy AD and a healthy Kyrie with Cooper Flagg and seeing what it looks like."