05-23-2023, 07:25 AM
(05-22-2023, 01:37 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: I think there are probably multiple ways to work out something where Kyrie ends up in LA without having to depend on any of the S&T guys coming here from LA. Beasley and Bamba and Vandy and 17 (once signed) can get Irving to $38.6mm using the 110% rule. LA would have between $43mm and $53mm to keep Rui and Reaves and sign minimums to finish out the roster.
Dallas can pick and choose what to take from all of that and send what they don't want to a cap room team.
Does Dallas want only Vandy and cap room with Bamba and Beasley going elsewhere? What will Poeltl get this summer?
How about Vandy, Bamba and the pick stays in Dallas and we send Beasley away and take back a $16.5mm TPE (plus the MLE).
I was working hard to maximize money for Kyrie using the 110% rule and missed the most simple version of all of this (which is where Zach Lowe went in his podcast). The simplest version of this is LA letting its NG contracts go (Beasley and Bamba) and trading Vanderbilt, #17 and 2029 for Kyrie at about $34mm. That gets Dallas the largest possible TPE a replenishment of its 2029 pick and a DFS replacement. We aren't getting a Dinwiddie replacement in this, but the TPE (or the $20mm in cap room we'd have) and #17 allows you to pursue what you want.
LA would operate as a room team, could keep the $2mm cap hold on Reaves and would have the Room MLE. Retaining Rui isn't possible in this scenario. So, their team would be Davis, LeBron, R-MLE, Reaves and Irving and everyone else would be minimums. Doesn't seem smart to me, but Le-GM hasn't always made the smartest long term decisions.
Assume all the required disclosures again. Correct, this doesn't make us better. Yeah, the report said we already have a deal. Yeah, Kyrie isn't taking $34mm. The question, if he really wants to leave, is whether Dallas would want the stripped down version of this or some of LA's stuff. For instance, Rui could S&T into this eating up some of the TPE. Would you split $30mm between Rui and someone else or just keep the $30mm TPE and go shopping? The deal can't be done until July, and picks would already be made. So Dallas (or a third team) would need to like the pick made at 17 (or the pick Dallas made at 10). The TPE would allow you to bring back someone without forcing matching salaries on the other team...Collins, Herro, maybe Draymond. With 10/17/2027 and 2029 (LA), you are also back in the game for OG or any of the big name guys out there.