Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Smitty]

As currently constructed, I think we have to have positional versatility.  Sexton makes more sense as a two position bench guard than Simons.

My best guess on Johnson is they want him to start out being the first big off the bench and let him play both the 4 and the 5.  It is hard to know who is more expendible, PJ, Gafford or both.  Much depends on the prognosis for Lively, which none of us know at this point.  I say all of that to point out that PJ to OKC for guard(s) is still a possibility I'm hoping for because I like a lot of the options there better than the list of FA's.

I agree with you on Sexton > Simons.

As far as the OKC path goes, I think it will be pretty costly. I asked in Discord the other day, but I'd be curious what your opinion was.

Would you trade the '29 FRP (LAL) for Cason Wallace and Isaiah Joe into the TPE? It removes $18.7M from their payroll and still leaves them with SGA, Caruso, Dort, McCain, Mitchell, Topic, Stirtz at the Guard position. If it's an easy yes, what else would you be willing to give up?