(08-30-2022, 06:25 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Unfortunately, with Westbrook still on the table, the likely destination for the Knicks excess salary is LA.
I can see Fournier as total crap for UT, so the idea arises that maybe he can be foisted onto LA instead. Fournier-Conley is a match.
But Ainge's obvious baseline for taking RW will be LA picks, separate from NY picks for getting DM. Will LA even let go of any? And it's picks w NY too. Then once you roll both swaps into one, the other 2 teams see the combined set of picks going to UT, and both balk at UT getting too many.
So I'm skeptical that LA/RW to the deal will be their answer. Often, adding another mouth to feed makes an already-hard deal impossible.