05-05-2026, 05:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-05-2026, 05:26 PM by dirkfansince1998.)
(05-05-2026, 04:55 PM)F Gump Wrote: That would be awful. Payroll usage is a really big deal. Quickley is not worth the impact on payroll freedom.
Quickley is a player that Ujiri seemingly valued enough to offer him a big contract. That was a part of trade that Ujiri made. Not farfetched to assume that he values him more than you or I do.
One way to use the payroll is to acquire assets in exchange for bad salary. I already stated that the contract is bad and that the Raptors would need to add something. So I am not trading for Quickley because I think he is better than player x/y/z (for example Kyrie, or PJ+salary filler) on the Mavs. I think that Quickley + assets could be more valuable than player x/y/z.
Is any of this even semi realistic? No. We are on a message board. Proposing all kinds of stuff. It's great that you want to get a usable player and a pick but you seemingly aren't willing to give up anything of value in exchange. That's just not how it works.