12-09-2020, 07:47 AM
(12-09-2020, 07:22 AM)DanSchwartzman Wrote: Powell and Johnson can combine to bring back someone making $34mm ($11.080 + $16.047 with likely incentives * 1.25% + $100,000). They miss matching Tobias Harris (for instance) by $350,000, which would be fairly easy to overcome. I personally think an in season trade (as you are suggesting) is a better use of resources than waiting for the summer. Absent Gi or Go, there just isn't anyone on the free agent market worth giving up two starters for. Combining Johnson with any of Maxi, Powell, THJ or Richardson seems better than giving up at least two of Maxi, Powell, THJ and Richardson.
Totally agree. Even if, for example, our FA target would be Oladipo, it makes more sense to trade for him before TDL, as long as the price is lower than two starters (THJ and JRich). We would need to renounce them to clear cap space for him. And please, Oladipo is just an example, I don't want whole "I think Oladipo is crap" debate again
Unless they will have firm commitments from theoretical possible max worthy free agents (GA, George and Kawhi are the only ones), I think going over the cap gives way more opportunity to upgrade the roster than going the FA way. Again - even if it means a couple of assets. This team is deep and the only thing we need to improve is to upgrade on one or two starter slots, assuming JRich proves he brings what we hope he will.