TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

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Dinwiddie managed things in Brooklyn during a rebuild once before…just saying.

If we are allowed to use Brunson’s outgoing in a S&T, we only need about $17mm in outgoing.  Otherwise, it takes $29mm to match.

Scary for sure.  But what if it worked…

The match is even easier than that, perhaps.

Make Brunson-to-NY into a 3-way with DET, then add THJ going to DET. Then tie Kyrie-to-DAL into that deal, with DET sending player X to BKN (some player making enough salary to allow DET to take THJ from DAL). Maybe Burks is that player. Alternately, instead of THJ-to-DET, maybe they use SD-to-BKN as you suggest, or THJ-to-BKN.

Personally I'd prefer to keep SD. But other teams have their own valuations and needs, so ya never know.

Obviously there would be more details, but the matching framework is fairly easy when piggybacking off of what looks to already be in the works (ie some variation of DAL-NY-DET that ties together the known transactions).

In light of the chaos of the past year, I suspect Kyrie wouldn't be that expensive.