NBA TRADE TALK: TDL over

[DanSchwartzgan]

1) THJ + Burke our 2022 1st round pick (top 16 protected) for Gary Harris and their 2022 2nd round pick (optional Bamba for TPE).

That means we swap a pick between 17-25ish for the 31st pick, plus we gain some flexibility going forward.


Doncic/Ntilikina/Moses
Brunson/Harris/Brown
DFS/Bullock/Green
Kleber/Powell/Chriss
Porzingis/Bamba/Boban
 

First, you can't trade the 2022 first until the pick is made, which means this can't be done until June and at that point Orlando can't send Harris at his current expiring deal to trade match Hardaway.

But even if you could, if you leave Bamba out of this (optional), you are paying to give Hardaway away.  If he's so bad you have to drop down in the draft several spots to move him, then the TDL is hopeless.  Green would take that spot in the rotation, so there is no point in signing Harris to a contract that is worth less than the TP MLE.  Plus you already have Brown and Frank who do similar things for much less.

You've posted this several times and until you made the Bamba part optional, I assumed you had a higher opinion of Bamba than I do.  If you watch how we are defending right now, we need bigs who are more mobile than Bamba (if healthy Turner wasn't going to work, Bamba certainly won't).  I think PJ Washington or Batum or Thaddeus Young or Toppin would be much better fits for this scheme.  I'd like to get a guy like that and move Maxi to the bench with Powell.  I'd also like an upgrade over Burke as our third PG.  The question is how can you deal for any of that without giving up DFS, JB or Green when we can't deal a pick until 2026?