TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

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Or, find a team who might want a shooter and find a player who some other team is willing to move for expiring LeVert.  I still think THJ for LeVert is logical from a style of play standpoint, but simply swapping one kind of meh for a different kind of meh.  When I hear new rumors now, my mind goes to how expiring LeVert deal might fit into the equation.  One year of Conley comes to mind.  So do some others including Rozier.  If would be nice to get one of Cleveland's 2023 seconds in such a swap.  Not so much because I want a late second, but because it is another piece that can be added to another trade.

Another place my mind goes a lot is how to bake NY into any trade.  The purpose isn't so much because I'm dying to have Fournier or Rose or Reddish (though I'd love to add Toppin or Quickley).  The purpose is to figure a way to either get our pick back or include the unprotecting of the pick as part of the deal.  For instance, is there a world where Quickly is the compensation for swapping expiring LeVert for Fournier?  And, as part of that, we unprotect our 23 so we can move 25, 27 and 29 in some other move.  If you have Quickley and Green as young guards, do you feel more free to include Hardy in that bigger deal?

Conley is interesting.   need to think if I would prefer him over Levert.  Utah may be happy to get off that contract.

Gives Dallas a little more time instead of the expiring Levert.   Age needs to be factored in with Conley though.