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[mvossman]

What can the combination of THJ/Din/2022 first get in return value? 


Moving off those 2, we would want another bench ball handler (might not have to be great, just a good floor general like JJB was in his latter years to spell Luka), a good-to-great C and a ball handling/defensive wing (to start or play big minutes off the bench)

Your not going to get all of that.  THJ is neutral value at best and Din may be tanking his value so bad it wont make sense to try to move him.  The first is late and awkward to trade as it has to be during the draft.

As for your guy to run the bench unit, we already have that in Brunson.  With Luka and Brunson playing over 30 minutes a game, you can easily the can both easily start (and finish) while staggering minutes the rest of the game.  Brunson is at his best when Luka is not on the court anyways.

A good to great center is going to be tough.  Guys like Turner, Capela and Poeltl are probably going to cost more than THJ + pick.  We could probably get somebody like Holmes and gamble that he can revert to what he was prior to this last season.

After that your best bet is a young rotational big that might develop into a starter.  Guys like Hartenstein, PJ Washington, Jaxson Hayes, Naz Reid.

I don't see any path to that ball handling defensive wing.  Wont get that with the tax MLE, and I am having a hard time thinking of one that would be available for a late first?  In the short term we are probably going to have to hope for development from Green and Frank.