(05-22-2022, 11:27 PM)omahen Wrote: Already told both
If you're talking of Hollinger, it was just one thought among many he tossed out there in a by the way fashion, of what OKC might do with their space, rather than an analysis that taking RW was likely or on the burner.
Again, I'm extremely skeptical of the likelihood of that option at that price, in light of the wasted money (real dollars) it would cost the OKC owners. Prior moves cost them nothing in real dollars, which no one seems to have noticed while Presti played around with contracts and accumulated picks for the future. Flushing $47M (adding a player, to waive him) is big money.
You may be right in thinking otherwise, that it's a cheap, easy, likely idea.
I do not - I think the price demanded would be high, and LAL will keep RW because they won't want to pay to through the nose to dump him. I also think OKC's willingness to take on contracts in June will prove to be at a much lower level than that, and they will demand a much higher price than previously if they do any of it. We'll see soon.
--- If OKC is wheeling and dealing as cheap as you say in June, I am more interested in how there might be a play for the Mavs there, not LAL. Their 2nd pick, #12, feels enticing. Swapping out a bad contract or 2 feels enticing. Micic seems enticing. Favors might fill a need here, and/or a backup wing. How much of that can you do where it's still a better value for OKC than gagging down RW's 47M waiver?
BTW, for the record OKC extracted quite a bit more in taking on Horford than you are saying, as they 1) got a FRP (#16) like you said, but also got 2) a very high high 2nd, close to a FRP, to pick Maledon, 3) the rights to Micic (the 2 time Euro MVP who many teams apparently want), and 4) a player in Horford that they figured they could flip later and pick up another FRP (which they did). The value was about like 4 FRPs, not just 1. But most of all, for all of that they spent $0 extra cash out of pocket to net any of that, which I believe was a very big part of their internal thinking. What they do with their cap room in June will be a good test of that, since they have now used up all their free contractual cash that they could spend with no net cost to them.