07-31-2021, 02:29 PM
(07-31-2021, 02:00 PM)omahen Wrote: But Maxi, Powell and Brunson barely make up for Lowry. You need more outgoing salary in this case.
Doh. You are right. Sorry…running too many scenarios in my head.
Obviously Nance can fit into our TPE if we maintain it. But, if it was that easy all sorts of teams would have traded for him by now. I was trying to take on Cedi as part of the price tag for getting Nance (something I played around with earlier in the day). I’ve also been working on Powell/Brunson (and some space) for Lowry. I got a little too excited and combined the concepts forgetting I can’t take back any salary besides Lowry for the trio of outgoing salaries.
FWIW, I think they likely keep this simple…Maxi/Brunson or Powell/Brunson and call it a day. I get that there is a clever version that maintains the TPE and MLE. I kind of suspect they will lock it down if they can get Lowry for two Mav’s. I disagree with the idea that we need to come up with two firsts for Toronto to make this deal. It just has to be better than nothing and hometown hero Powell plus Brunson more than covers that. The way they might complicate this would be to send Maxi into space on a third team for a small returning asset. Maybe that goes to Toronto. Maybe that goes to Cleveland as an incentive to trade us Nance.
Here is what the simple DP/JB for Lowry looks like using enough space to also retain THJ:
KP/WCS. Moses
DFS/Maxi. Bey
THJ/Sterling. Min
Lowry/Green Burke
Luka/Terry. Min