2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[cjeter24]

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.

probably not the only one. but definitely minority. 
I get the idea of not wanting to have two players with injury question marks. So the solution is to trade the one that's isn't all nba player if thats the issue lol. 
It's a short term issue. He may miss all of next season and if he does, he'll be completely fine having almost 18 months to recover off an acl. 

The cap space is a non issue if he wants to come. We have Kleber we can move easily. We won't have a problem offloading the cap space since it's really small deals and/or good players. 

You'll get Kawhi at 32 so he should have several really solid years left. He's probably going to be past his prime but he's still going to be an elite player once he's returned. You do the move because you'll have a year to prepare for his return and your championship window gets blown wide open for the next 3-4 years.