Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[KillerLeft]

I mean Brown will be 30 in October, so there is some urgency to win with him sooner than later.

Yeah, for sure. 

That's another thing I'm learning: Even when it comes to GOOD players, it's often harder to find the right niche for these guys in trade than we imagine it will be. Brown seems like the type teams would kill for a chance to bid on, only he's expensive, older and wants to run his own team, so...extracting "good value" for him might be harder than we think. 

All of this, to me, supports the point made above by ChicagoJK that not being committed to expensive players about whom you have doubts is part of the goal these days. The era of "just pay him - worst case scenario, we'll move him later" might really be ending.