01-14-2021, 01:31 PM
(01-14-2021, 01:09 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Here's something that's not being said by many people, maybe because it's so unthinkably foreign to basketball fans, but that I think might possibly be true: Is it possible that the main reason for flipping Lavert into Oladipo from Houston's perspective was simply the ability to let him expire and get money off of the books? Is it possible that they don't at all view him as an asset in any way?
Everything I've seen so far indicates that reducing payroll is the plan in Houston, as nobody expects Tillman to pay big money for a bad team. But rather than simply letting him expire, IMO the odds are very high that they look to flip Oladipo at the deadline for another expiring plus inexpensive assets like picks and rookie scale players.