08-16-2021, 06:55 PM
(08-16-2021, 06:09 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Tyler had a fantastic idea that nets both LM and GD for the same $14.4ish of out going salary. To review, the outgoing salary matches Dragic, but not all of it goes to Toronto. Some piece goes to Chicago and Markkanen fits into our TPE on a three year deal. Tyler’s presumption was Powell, Josh and Moses after hearing the aggregation theory Hollinger put out there.
I’ve tried to add to the conversation saying there are Maxi based deals that also work. Again, some salary goes to Chicago and some goes to Toronto. We can come up with a dozen different versions that work. The specific deal isn’t the point.
Some will say, “but wait, isn’t LM demanding $15mm”? That ship has sailed. Plus, if that were the deal, it would be done by now. You can match LM with Maxi and get him a deal averaging $15mm. No need to wait and no need to aggregate Moses. In fact, there is a way to send Maxi and Moses together right now without it being an aggregated deal as Chicago has a TPE to cover Moses. But that isn’t the holdup or it would be done. The holdup is they are trying to do a two-fer with Moses part of the outgoing. That deal has to either be aggregated or you need bodies or salaries that aren’t attractive to one at least one of the parties.
Question (in my best Dwight Schrute voice)... When you say two-fer, in the above scenario, we are sending out more than 2 players and getting Dragic AND Markkanen back? Then we would have one roster spot open when the dust settles in that scenario?
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