Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[mvossman]

The math of that is interesting for them.  Thanks for putting it all together.  

It puts us $10mm under the tax line (and better able to use most of the $12mm left in the MLE) this year and removes $49mm in salary from our cap sheet next year.  We see giving them all of these competitive vets as valuable and deserving of a certain amount of compensation.  I wonder if they see removing nearly $50mm of salary from our cap sheet as more of an offset in the real world than us fans take into account?

Yep.  They clear our cap sheet including taking on Martin in that deal.  We might even be able to turn Butler around for something at the TDL.  I don't see them sending back Yaxel or an unprotected first in that deal.  I'm not even sure how much sense it makes for them to have Draymond, Yaxel and PJ on the roster together, and PJ is the best asset we would be sending them.