06-05-2023, 08:11 PM
(06-05-2023, 06:06 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Eric Pincus was on the Locked-On podcast this morning. Good listen. Largely about the CBA, but he did talk Kyrie and Ayton a little bit. He made an interesting point about C. Paul to Atlanta for Collins as a way to save money for the Hawks. The Hawks would want something other than the privilege of paying Chris Paul to go away, but Phoenix can't offer a pick. I wonder if you can tie that in with Ayton to Dallas and find ways to satisfy everyone's wishes.
I'm not sure how to count CP's salary, but I wonder if there is a world in which Maxi/Paul/#10 ends up on the Hawks, Ayton and #15 end up in Dallas and Collins and THJ end up in Phoenix.
1 If his contract is "as is," CP3 counts 15.8 for PHX, but 30.8 for ATL. I assume it's in June, to avoid the issues of CP3 g'tee and new Apron 1 rules for all 3 teams.
2 The match doesn't work for ATL (39.8 incoming, but only 23.5 outgoing). ATL has to offload salary somewhere else (about 8.5M of it to team 4) to make it work.
3 I certainly wouldn't do Maxi-THJ-10 for Ayton-15, but it feels like about what PHX would be asking. I at least make PHX also take Javale, which is then a salary wash for DAL in yr 1.