Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[DanSchwartzgan]

The all sorts of stuff for Jimmy Butler and other stuff just doesn't feel like a Masai move.

I don’t know.  If you believe he had any influence on the outgoing AD trade (that created all of the flexibility we are currently enjoying), then this is just phase two of the Nico purge.  It creates all sorts of flexibility next summer and going forward and Masai can then start to invest in his ‘keepers’ instead of the best he could find on the discard pile of Memphis, Detroit and Atlanta.