TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[DanSchwartzgan]

it works in the notoriously bad ESPN trade machine 

is there something more accurate out there?

Multiply $5.9mm times 1.25 and add $100k.  It doesn't work.  It would be 1.75 instead of 1.25 if the outgoing stayed under $6.5mm if Dallas wasn't a taxpaying team after the trade.  But, if this is all that is happening, then the 1.25% spread applies.

So, you have to add salary to Reddish to get to Bullock.  Any of Grimes, Quickley or Toppin would do it.  To me, Quickley isn't quite worth a distant first on his own (close, but not there).  Bullock for Reddish is more advantageous to NY than Dallas.  I think the play here would be to 'enhance' the pick NY already has.  Critics rightfully say that most of the picks NY has besides their own are crap picks.  One enhancement Dallas could do to balance Reddish/Quickly for Bullock would be to move the protected 23 out to 27 or 28 and make it unprotected or very lightly protected.  That is past the Doncic Super Max and just like the value teams place on the post-Lebron Laker picks, it has good theoretical value.

That would leave Dallas free to trade 23 and 25.  I think I'd create a center trade AND salary dump with either SA or Indy.  I'd try to get either Poeltl or Turner and send out Bertans and Powell or Bertans and McGee.  Sending Powell gets me under the LT this season and resets the repeater clock.  My preference would be to make the 25 pick kind of a 'fake first' that is protected and converts to seconds in 26, but that would be dependent on how much salary SA/Indy has to eat and what else is in the deal.  My new center would start and I'd extend Wood to the years he wants to be my backup C and PT four when opponents required it.  I've now fixed my third guard situation and my center situation and only given up Bullock/Powell in terms of currently useful players.  I'll go to war with that for the next several years.