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[mvossman]

Not to beat a dead horse but I think what is great about the current situation is that we can add to the band without breaking it up. That bench has 20M in expiring that you can still pair with draft capital if you find a clear upgrade that moves either Josh or PJ to the bench. You can up that number to 31M by adding Maxi.

I also don’t think we’ve talked on this board about what the best lineup is on this team now. I tend to agree with what you’re thinking but you have Gafford/Maxi/Exum on your bench who have all seen success as starters and I would think still want to find a starting role (Maxi probably doesn’t care but I have a hard time seeing Gafford not competing with Lively or a healthy Exum not forcing Kidd to think twice at times if Green gets inconsistent). Lots of different combos they can throw out now that achieve similar skill sets and balance and I think we’ve made some assumptions that Kidd may disagree with. It will be incredibly interesting to watch the last 30 games and see what variations he throws out.

I think Exum is definitely going to make more sense coming off the bench.  He is at his most value when one or both of Luka/Kyrie are off the court and his current injury is overuse related.  We probably need to be careful with him and keep his minutes restricted.  Should be easy to do when the team is healthy.