TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

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Without the LeVert part, Atlanta would need to take back near-matching salary from Indy (like Theis and McConnell) to leave room for Indy to deal with Turner.  That salary may or may not be expiring and may or may not be attached to a useful player.

Having Lavert available certainly is an avenue to making ATL happy, maybe. But other players can provide the same salary-match, so they might be even happier by getting whatever is being sent to Dallas.

And it's also possible a Collins-to-Indy deal might NOT include much of a salary match, depending on what Indy decides with Turner -- Indy could send Duarte for Collins and still have over $8M in room to renegotiate a raise-and-extend with Turner. If my math and CBA is right, they could offer 5 years including this one, with something like $150M total (with 4 years/$132M of it being new). When I think about who Turner is and what I'd want to pay, that actually seems like too much, not too little, and I doubt Turner would be getting bigger offers in the summer from another team. (It would take a deal starting at almost $31M.)