MAVS hire Masai Ujiri as new team President

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sort of a sneaky nice trade is the Kings and Raptors trade in 2024.  Kings wanted to clear room.   They took on Jalen McDaniels (the bad brother) and the Raptors got Davion Mitchell, Sasha Vezenkov (who then argreed to be waived) and two seconds (one being Jamal Shead).  Mitchell did not stay long in Toronto and was traded in the summer to Miami where he has regained his standing as a good rotation player.   Shead is a really tough player.

Something like this ^ is what I am saying I would like to see, and it's a good sign that Masai has experience with this skill in his bag.  

In this example, a team (SAC) wanted to dump some salary (needing room to be able to do something else with it). He was sitting on some room, so he took a useful player (Mitchell) from them, sent back a less useful player with a lower salary, and picked up 2 picks for the help. At the next TDL, he sold Mitchell to MIA and netted yet another pick.

It doesn't matter to me whether the picks were special or not. Just that he turned "cap space" into assets. That's the sort of thing that adds up, over time. And it's how I would hope they use the TPE.

FWIW they have multiple Exceptions they can use this way - in round numbers, 21M, 15M, 6M, 5M, 3M. That's a lot of ways to do something, if teams are looking for cap room help (and it seems like someone is, almost every year). They  need to find ways to add assets at the margins after The Idiot gave away their franchise perennial all-NBA superstar for almost nothing.