(05-25-2024, 08:43 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Great minds….
I looked at Tankathon the other day for just such a deal. Utah is an obvious candidate that I came across first and then I ran out of time to keep looking (I was traveling in Norway…I have a newfound admiration for you guys who post and watch games on a European timeline. 3 hours in the middle of the night to watch a game is a bitch).
Our 2025 and THJ for their #32 feels like something Utah would do. The future first is more valuable to them than a third pick in this draft and THJ can be a placeholder for that space until the TDL or later depending on what happens with LM. Dallas gets another 2nd rounder (possibly at a reduced rate, though at that level in the 2nd they often use part of the MLE to sign a second). You also move all of THJ’s salary (unless you try to do a trade or S&T for someone like Kris Dunn to use some of that space).
The deal would have to be held over to July 1st just like they did last year with OKC. There may be other similar possibilities, but that was the only one I had time to look at.
Utah also has #29. Mavs can't trade 2025 pick on draft night unless they get 2024 FRP back. If they don't get the 2024 FRP, they could agree behind closed door that the team is drafting for Mavs and then actually trade the rookie in July. But I don't think these kind of moves ever happen.
Edit: are you sure that OKC deal with Bertans wasn't finalized until July? Because that would also mean, that on draft night, Sacramento was sending Holmes into TE that was not there yet until July. What if the OKC-Mavs deal would go sour for whatever reason? If teams are ok doing such deals, that opens up a lot of possibilities