(07-04-2022, 11:24 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote:
I'm not big on Sexton, but he is a rumored target. At just a few hundred K over the apron, we could do a S&T where we take back less salary than we send out and get under the Apron following the trade. So, THJ goes out and we bring back Burks and Saben Lee (which uses up the rest of Detroit's cap room). Then we do Powell/Green for S&T Sexton with Sexton starting at $13mm-ish. If Powell is superfluous at this point, then we are essentially dealing THJ/Green for Burks, Sexton and Lee...a third defensive wing, a high usage bench scorer and a third string PG. Detroit gets a native son and Cleveland gets some value for a guy they don't really want.
That's interesting, but it makes more sense if it somehow gets rolled into a Brunson SNT. It would all fit easily, be an easy add-on, and doing it that way makes the choices more flexible. That's important since Sexton probably wants more that that amount (not that he will get whatever he wants - he's definitely not that level of value).
One tricky issue: CLE will have to send side salary somewhere with Sexton being Base Year. I would say to Dallas, since that's the obvious place with Mavs having flexibility from Brunson snt, but the Apron issue with the Mavs will make that the wrong place. If this is rolled into Brunson deal, there might be room with NY or DET.
The math is complicated if you know the pieces everyone would do, but even more so when ginning up varying hypotheticals, so I'm not going to elaborate on that end -- you know how it works anyhow.