TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[DanSchwartzgan]

https://twitter.com/TheLaurenGunn/status/1564955151873482754?s=20&t=qMZM5TZQk8RcX0RnWAkdOQ

I would do this.  I hate to help LA but we get a 23 FRP, 3rd guard and minor DP upgrade.

If you read the Twitter thread she says that Mike Scotto reported that Indy proposed Turner/Hield/Theis for Russ and 27 and 29 and LA turned it down because it didn't want the Theis salary.  She's simply trying to build off of something that was apparently on the table (and include the Mav's).  Spotrac has Theis as a club option in 24/25, so two guaranteed years left.  Even I would trade Powell for two years and an option on Theis.  I think he's a better fit for what we are trying to do and we have McGee to play the Powell role (or roll).

I think we are getting the Boston pick and the seconds largely as compensation for McConnell vs. THJ.  He'd be an expensive third guard who is guaranteed this season and next and $5mm guaranteed in 24/25 (at this rate, seems we are on our way to collecting all the partial guarantees in the league if we did this).  The Boston 23 is unprotected which means we can structure a deal to trade our "next" pick since we'd be guaranteed of making a pick in 23.  It would be 24 if 23 conveys, plus you do the every other year thing.  So, there might be some value to having that Boston pick at the TDL.  If we are pretty clearly a playoff team in February a team could take some salary and feel pretty good about getting 24, 26 and 28 plus pick swaps.  As IGT points out, it is even more valuable next summer.  Remember, we don't have to have our own 23 to trade 24 (or the earliest pick that conveys).  We have to have "a" first in one of the next two future drafts.  

I would do a pick/McConnel for THJ swap.  We can replace what THJ does.  We need what McConnell does even though he isn't as good.  The team building assets are just too strong to pass up.

Where I think this breaks down is sending THJ to LA.  They don't need both THJ and Hield and if they didn't want Theis's money, why would they take Hardaway's.  Would Cleveland take THJ and send LaVert to LA rather than losing LaVert for nothing.  That might be a way of fixing the biggest issue I have with her proposal.