TRADE: KD to HOU | Green+Brooks+#10+5 2nds to PHX

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Shaving $15.7M off your cap for the next seven seasons seems seems like it will kill the slight hopes that they could retool around Booker in his prime years.  Yikes.  Feels like it would be better just to pay Beal for the next two years rather than do that, but there doesn't seem to be a good solution to this problem.

" seems like it will kill the slight hopes that they could retool around Booker in his prime years. ".... Well, yeah. But hasn't that ship already sailed of building any kind of decent team around Booker, no matter that you do?

He's already in his prime (age 29 this fall) and it's hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel before he's beyond it. (In fact, while it's probably not on their radar, it sure seems like they'd benefit from making Booker available  - provided someone pays a lot for him - so that they can have some picks and flexibility to use to rebuild assets.)

It's not my money, but it's probably a net gain of 250M or so to the team (over the next 2 seasons of Beal's contract) by doing a sw to stop being a team stuck above A2 with huge tax bills. As bad as they are anyhow, it's really hard to justify that sort of salary cost imo.