2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[DanSchwartzgan]

Proven right how? Are you saying Mavs are going to get Kawhi? Or Conley and Oubre?

Am I the only one who doesn't want Kawhi?

There is a good chance he misses all of next season.  There goes another wasted year for Luka.  There is some chance he's KP V-2 and we are constantly worried that every time he falls to the ground, this is the one.  He's not exactly been the epitome of health the last few years.

I've not seen much talk about what this would cost us.  His Max is $39,340,000.  We are 5 million short if we lose THJ, JRich and WCS if we are doing this with cap room.  So, we wipe out four guys to get a guy who can't play?  We can't trade match the $31.4mm needed directly with LAC without causing a hard-cap issue for them (I'm assuming you'd need S&T THJ as part of the deal, though he could go to a third team).  In fact, a three team trade is probably the best way to make this work, but you are still needing to send out at least $31.4mm

KP is a trade match at $31.6mm.  Does LAC want him?  If not, we have to find a third team that wants KP AND has stuff LAC wants.  That will probably require the third team either be a cap room team or have $25.2mm worth of outgoing.  Mark is going to need a spreadsheet for this.  Now we've traded one injury issue for another and wiped out $8 million of the space we have to fill out the roster for the year we are playing without Leonard.  I'm just not seeing it.