Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[mvossman]

Right now they only have Flagg, PJ, and Gafford on the books. Whoever they draft this year will have a team option in 28. The other question marks are Kyrie, Lively, Christie, and Marshall. I don't think it's that difficult to preserve cap space with some combination of those players, but not if you keep all of them. My priorities would be Lively, Christie, and the draft picks. 

Even if you don't ultimately sign someone with the cap space, you could use it to take on bad contracts for picks in years where you have none.

I mean we have high level FO now.  They could turn several of the current players into younger longer term contracts.  I think there will be a ton of changes to this roster between now and 28 and they may not want to handcuff themselves trying to keep huge cap space available.