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(This post was last modified: 1 hour ago by KillerLeft.)
(1 hour ago)Smitty Wrote: It’s certainly debatable. As someone who loves PJ and really likes Carr, I think it’s fair value at least. In the end, I wouldn’t do it… but I would think everyone that’s not a fan of PJ would say yes. Pick 24, a swap, and 3 seconds. It’s not nothing… I guess you’d have to like Carr as much as I do also.
The problem is the contract.
Looking at the Mavs' contracts, PJW's is the longest running they have and the biggest total left owed on the roster. They'll have extensions to negotiate soon. Maybe Marshall doesn't get one, maybe Lively doesn't either (debating those isn't the point right now), but soon. Before you know it, they'll be up against the tax line (maybe sooner than we thought)...then they'll be a tax team, then they'll be at Apron 1...and up against Apron 2. I'd like to put that stuff off as long as possible by being as smart as possible, so the team has a chance to stay together a while and grow.
If you think PJW is a great fit with Flagg, you probably don't care. You'd probably rather move Marshall, Kyrie and even Lively (the next wave of extension eligible players) instead. But, as big a fan of PJW as I am, I think he's a pretty bad fit with Flagg. Not horrible, but also not good...or even ok. Slightly BAD. Given that (if I'm right about it, anyway) he's just too damn expensive to keep around. Sooner or later he's got to go.
What I don't like about this deal you've proposed is that it neither removes the salary from the books nor transforms it into a useful rotation player who DOES fit. You can say Carr counts as the latter and I can get there for sure, only Vandergrift and his contract (smaller, but almost as long) are just going to sit there, clogging everything up. I think, even in the worst case scenario where you end up having to execute a straight salary dump for some unforeseen reason, PJW will be easier to move at any point in the future than Vandergrift.
It's risky, imo.