Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[windjc]

This is how I see it:

Kyrie/Sasser
Christie/De Larrea
Risacher/Biberovic
Flagg/Aldama
Johnson/Lively/Cisse

???? PJW, Gafford, Thompson, Marshall

Maybe all three of the question mark guys are here still when the season starts, maybe only 1, whatever. Those who are here will need roles, of course. I'm waiting for Dan or someone to do the math, but I'd be pretty surprised if this move didn't put the team over the tax line, or right up to it, and I'd be equally surprised if we didn't see at least one of those three outgoing in a salary dump to avoid paying the tax this year. Gafford and PJW have the two longest-term deals on the books, so there's an element of longterm planning to that thinking as well. Heck, avoiding the tax this year is longterm thinking.

But looking at the depth chart the way I have it - to me, it makes SO MUCH sense. You can bring one of those bench players in (almost any of them) and slide people around to play differently. So much positional versatility, so much synergy.

You want ti start a guy who couldn’t get minutes in Atlanta?

Jesus you hate our current guys.

You want to get rid of PJ who had way better stats than Risacher. What’s the fascination with getting worse?