(02-10-2022, 05:14 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: It's because they can be separated and combined with other, not sucky things to make marginal improvements that don't require 5 players coming back from the other team. Those deals don't actually happen in real life all that often.
MOST Max level guys are GOOD, and not available. Yes, Westbrook has been traded, but it's always for an equally bad contract. Even as an expiring deal, KP's deal was going to be hard to move without some poopoo coming back. They ripped the bandaid off in the hopes of inching towards being more flexible...just not in a way that signals an upcoming cap space year (I'd think many around here would be happy about that).
If you don't want the money to expire earlier, then this was the way to go (though I hate the two players they got just as much as you do).
The problem is you paid for the two lesser contracts in this swap and in order to move off them, you'll need to pay again.
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