TRADE: Tyus Jones to DAL | Branham to CHA

[mvossman]

We need one more starter from somewhere.  Right now that doesn't project to come from the draft.  It looks like a PG project behind Kyrie is the most likely outcome there.  So, my efforts this summer are much more about a SF who fits between Flagg and Christie much more than it is the end-of-bench guys.  If you can do that and draft well and Lively is healthy, you start to make sense and you have enough excess to put players into a trade and still have a solid bench.

Lively      Gafford     Bagley
Flagg       PJ            Middleton or Pick
Starter     Naji         Martin
Christie    Klay         Johnson
Kyrie        Pick         Jones or Nembhard

I agree with all of this.  If you look at that lineup, Gafford, PJ and Klay all make too much to be part of the second unit.  In an ideal world we can convert some combination of those contracts for that missing starter.  Ideally somebody youngish who can shoot and defend.

EDIT: And I just read Smitty say basically the same thing