06-25-2022, 01:00 PM
(06-25-2022, 12:20 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: What about a 3-team trade with the Spurs where the Mavs end up with Dejounte Murray.
2 picks from NY heads to San Antonio, Mavs send 1 of their own along with some filler like Powell.
Mavs get Murray
Knicks get Brunson.
Is this even legal?
If Brunson signs for $25mm and we are permitted to make this a S&T, then he counts as $12.5mm going out. That isn't quite enough to match Murray at 125%, but you could add Green and easily get there.
The bigger issue is where all the picks are coming from. NY can easily do this without us and as Omahen has pointed out, there is a world in which we have to pay something to even get a TPE. The only I see that we get even a single pick from NY (preferably our own) is if it will cost them something to drop the final $10mm needed for Brunson. If some cap team would take Burks or Noel with no compensation returning, then we are screwed. If it is going to cost NY a pick to dump Burks or Noel, then just as easy to give us the pick to take a $10mm player from NY than to find a third team.
If Brunson walks, I see the following scenarios as possible:
1. NY says they will agree to a S&T where we take Noel and get our first back
2. NY says take the protection off of the Dallas 2023 pick and they will allow us to have a $25mm TPE
3. Dallas says screw you and we lose Brunson for nothing