08-01-2021, 01:20 PM
(08-01-2021, 07:54 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Yeah, I'm definitely trying to solve all of their problems at once. Arcidiacono is fully non-guaranteed, so I think you can drop that part of the deal. But Sato is super cost effective for a year and not so old that you can't bring him back if you'd like. To your point, I would easily trade JRich for him straight up. If you add Moses and Dosunmu (an Excel guy) to that deal, that is some pretty clever work.
Doing it this way and bringing back THJ keeps you over the cap and you have the Full MLE and BAE at that point. It would probably be nice to add a little front court help. Sterling Brown at the BAE makes sense also. If you go this route, there isn't a limit on what you can pay THJ.
However, if you can get Hardaway for something more reasonable (say $14mm), and you don't bring back Willie, you'd have $11.4mm to spend in the front court. Bump that a bit if you can offload Burke. So you don't have to use the TPE necessarily (though it doesn't really make a difference as it is the same money in the end). One advantage of the TPE is Chicago has to decide on Sato today. So, the TPE would make that deal legal right now.
Holmes/Powell/Moses
KP/Maxi/Bey
DFS/Sterling/Green
THJ/Sato/Dosunmu
Luka/Brunson/Terry
Do we need the TPE to make it legal, or can we simply trade for him with air? If we do use the TPE now, can we decide to a make it cap space later?
Otherwise, I don't see the value of the TPE. As you mentioned, a reasonable re-sign for THJ plus taking Sato leaves us with more cap space than the MLE (which is particularly valuable for outbidding all of the MLE teams). Plus we will have the room to replace WCS (possibly with WCS if nobody better).