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I think the plan with Powell is probably just to play him this year when he's needed and then let his money come off the books at season's end, lowering the team salary commitments. Sure hope I'm wrong. 

I know we like to pretend he's worthless around here, but he's not. He's a rotation-worthy player with a fairly large expiring contract who I suspect could be turned into an equal but better fitting player (possibly a slightly better one whose multi-year salary a team is wanting to shed) fairly easily. The fact that this hasn't happened yet leads me to believe they see value in keeping Powell, either to play him, let him expire (cutting future payroll) or both.

Personally, a player who is unplayable in the playoffs has no value to me, but we don’t need to debate it. Maybe a bad team would like to use his one skill to try to gimmick offense their way into the play in or something, but bad teams generally don’t have a point guard who can get him wide open dunks.

I’m a glass half empty type of guy, but I am still holding a little bit of hope that maybe there is a plan that is waiting on a domino to fall or a recently traded player to become tradable. I’m ready to be let down again though.