07-24-2023, 09:52 PM
(07-24-2023, 10:48 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: Sign and trade. More of a free agency win, in my book. The hardest part of that equation was convincing Marion to sign here. Great and impactful move, though.
Yeah, for DAL that trade (which on paper was crazy) was almost entirely a case of adding Marion via sign-and-trade. TOR didn't want SM any more, and really didn't want the return salary from a snt. But DAL had Stackhouse with a partially guaranteed expiring salary ($2M guarantee, with total salary being $7M), so Stackhouse + cash could make it all possible. From there it was just a matter of trying to maximize opportunity for the teams involved.
It ended up as a 4-teamer, where JS went to MEM in the trade, not TOR, and ORL was added into the deal too (trading Hedo to TOR for cash), with several other players tossed into the deal here and there.