Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[SleepingHero]

Am I crazy to suggest a Zach Lavine consolidation trade?

Basically in the same vein as GSW, SAC has a huge salary issue and very little depth. They’ve been trying to trade Lavine this summer, but have been met with needing to attach assets because he had a player option for this upcoming season. They also tried to find teams that would’ve liked a SnT for Lavine. Well he went and opted into his deal and is now a 50 mil expiring essentially.

Thats a lot of money, and Sac is 300k away from being a tax team and need at least 2 more players to meet roster minimums. Which means, if the Kings just go and sign merry minimums, they are going to be a tax team for what is most likely a lotto team.

This means something has to happen. As is the Kings are thin at the 5 and the 3. Sabonis has also requested out.

With everyone jumping ship, getting some established contracts of proven vets could prove appetizing as they can be good trade bait.

A Lavine trade for Dallas can be relatively simple. Gafford+ Martin gets us halfway there and we just need 1 more contract.


This is where Miami comes in. We can send Klay there and send Jovic to Sac where they can take a flyer on the young player.

This lowers SAC’s tax bill considerably and fills out their roster.

The only issue is the Mavs now become a Tax team by about 3mil. We don’t really have a neat contract that fits into that salary amount, and even if we added PJ instead of Klay, we’d still be a tax team.

Perhaps we send out Christie and/or Naji for 1sts at the TDL?

The tax issue doesn’t need to be fixed until the TDL anyways. Just a thought.