Only Fantasy Traders in the Building (The Mitchell Case)

[mvossman]

Creativity doesn’t narrow down to one thing like you just did. 


Detroit just used capspace to get 3 expiring contracts for a pick swap and 6 seconds. The worse the contract, the better the return. 

SA didn’t worry much about the player contract, they worried about the number of picks. 

OKC has gathered 2 superstars (if not more) worth of picks by being creative.

Those are all bad/tanking teams that are doing what they can to take advantage of that.  They don't have a superstar that they are trying to build around and convince to stay on his next contract.  As Gump just pointed out, dumping those three players just gets us to the cap line.  We would have to dump useful players in order to use cap space creatively to get some additional draft capital.  Given that we need to be good soon and have shown no ability to be creative in this area in the past, it does not seem like a very good tradeoff.