06-12-2023, 10:15 AM
(06-12-2023, 09:56 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: The Haynes tidbit is way more interesting to me. He appears to take it a step farther and is more confident than not that Kyrie is returning. This echoes what Stein has previously put out as well. I do think Kyrie is returning, but the contract is going to make most sick imo.
If you listen to the Pod, you can tell he’s been told someone plans to get into the race. He used the word “meeting”, so this would be someone who could create cap room and is good enough that Kyrie might be interested. Two names come to mind, but they would need to lose FA’s and have something that a team like SA would want. Ideally, they wouldn’t need to create every penny of cap room needed and Dallas would be in position to extract some value if Kyrie insisted on going.
The teams I come up with are Philly and Toronto. Philly would need to lose Harden and find a taker for Tobias with dramatically less salary returning. Toronto can get to about $40mm in space if they move on from FVV, Trent and Poeltl. I think Dallas would be interested in Poeltl and possibly FVV. Playing with Embiid makes more sense to me than going to Canada. But, the Raptors have some pieces.
I guess “meetings” could mean teams that can’t get the cap space, but Dallas would need to play along there.