07-08-2021, 08:09 AM
(07-08-2021, 08:01 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: It is posted in this thread from this time yesterday. If Conley is your guy, you don't mess around. You sign him right off the bat. You can go two years $48 million with the room you have even if JRich opts in. If it takes more years, fine. I have no problem giving him a third year to correspond to KP's deal. If it takes more money, you put it in a non-guaranteed extra year that you assume he won't play. He did that in his last contract.I mean there's a difference between getting a commitment from a guy vs. actually signing the contract... in fact you can't sign right away because of the moratorium. (And as we saw disastrously for the Mavs with DAJ) So even if Conley says he's coming here, that's not the end, it's the beginning. THJ would likely find a new team during the moratorium as well and then there'd be time to work on a 3-way trade if possible. It seems to me it would certainly be better for Utah to gain a large trade exception vs. just losing Conley for nothing.
You trade match for Oubre using JRich. JRich can go to GS or as you point out he can go to a third team and we can S&T for Oubre in the same deal. There is a huge range of possible salaries with JRich as the outgoing. I see the need to include Maxi in a Collins deal. I see no reason to do so in a Conley deal. In fact, it is counter productive to team building.