2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[Jakeospikez]

Looked into the Jaxson Hayes situation a bit more, maybe there's a potential deal there somewhere. He was already on the trade block this past deadline. Only has 1 year left before he's an RFA and there's no room for him to start if Zion comes back, so he'll have to come off the bench. Get his Bird rights and should be able to resign him as a RFA pretty easily after a trial year. He's already a 77%+ FT shooter so there's no worries about that part of the game like there would be with Mitchell Robinson.

The Pels were the other team interested in THJ this past offseason right? I think they are looking for some bench scoring. If there's no direct deal with the Pels available, maybe there's a way to work some multi team deal with the Knicks or something where we shed THJ, get Hayes, and get our 2023 pick back from the Knicks somehow. Would really suck to lose Brunson but I think we can be ok moving Dinwiddie to the starting lineup and maybe get Dragic to take the bench ballhandler role while Luka is off the court. At the end of the day, flipping Brunson for some combo of the 2019 8th overall pick, shedding THJ, and the 2023 pick would be great asset management.

Future starting lineup of Luka/Dinwiddie/(Bullock or JGreen)/DoeDoe/Hayes looks good to me.

Use the Pels 3 years of development in the league instead of drafting a guy in the mid 20's that may take 3+ years of development himself. Hayes is still 21, about to turn 22. Still a ton of room for growth.