Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Scott41theMavs]

I don’t think Cleveland will find it difficult to dump Strus. He’s a good player on an expiring contract. We went through this with the two OKC guys. Teams want rotation players more than they care about “not helping out” someone in a financial jam. I don’t see any significant assets going to the team acquiring him.

Strus is too old, too pricey, and too injured to fit with this team, further jams up the roster if you just take him into the TPE without compensation coming with him, and probably puts the team into the tax for... not much benefit. 

I could see Strus if significant compensation was coming back. No compensation involved? I would be dynamically annoyed with M&M if they did something like that. Blecch!!