2021 FREE AGENCY: Markkanen wants out of CHI | DAL "definitely interested"

[mvossman]

This is news.

And if true, it would infer that any Dragic acquisition is likely either
(a) after a possible buyout, for minor money, or
(b) in an over-cap deal, perhaps wrapped into the Lowry sign-and-trade. That would be something like Powell + ________ (Burke works!). For TOR, the benefit of sending him elsewhere would be to get better cost efficiency (playable role players), vs flushing cash in a buyout (a rumored alternative), and dealing with Dallas might come from the short line of teams interested in Lowry making 19.4.

Wait, Powell+Burke for Dragic is a salary match?  That would definitely change the game.  I could definitely live with a THJ + Dragic + TPE + MLE offseason.