01-26-2026, 03:06 PM
(01-26-2026, 02:43 PM)cow Wrote: We don't have a GM. I don't care about the tax bill, especially if that's being leveraged against me in negotiations (Dumont could think differently of course). I think those two factors work against maximizing our assets. I'm not opposed to making trades now, but I also don't have urgency to do it either. If the right deal is there, take it, but don't make trades just to make trades. I'm perfectly fine going into next season with the current roster. I do think we'll eventually trade AD, Gafford, Nanji, PJ and Kyrie (possibly others, but those are the ones that I think can return valuable assets).
My 5-7 outlook is putting together a championship team, but I do think we'll be a playoff team prior. That timing let's some of the power players in the west figure themselves out.
I think the tax issue will only grow and in the future would be leveraged against them more heavily than it will be now. I think they have the best opportunity to avoid that tax now and it will only get more expensive in assets in the future. That does not mean make bad deals just to get out of the tax now, but it does mean they should be active this TDL instead of doing nothing in waiting for a GM hire and then asking him to shed 27 mil of cap in the offseason.