TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[DanSchwartzgan]

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.

Maybe it goes the other way and Dallas sends out more money, not less as a way of getting under the Apron.  Brooklyn needs bodies and has an incentive to win.  Maybe Dinwiddie, Bertans and Powell for Kyrie and Sharpe?  Takes about $9mm of Dallas salary off the books and allows us to use more than the TP-MLE (but not quite the entire Non TP-MLE).