Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

[DanSchwartzgan]

Is there a 3-team deal here where:

PHX gets: Collins+Reggie
ATL gets: Bertans+THJ+#10
Mavs get: Hunter+Ayton+#15

I like the Phoenix part of this.  I don’t see Atlanta doing that at all.

Hardwood Knocks today spent some time on Phoenix and concluded they should keep Paul another year and move on from Ayton.  The thing to do is avoid things that hard cap you…OR…find a way to reduce enough salary that you can spend the Full MLE and BAE while stying under the apron.

I think the simple way to do this is go back to the post you responded to between Utah/Dallas.  Utah makes much more sense as a Bertans destination than Atlanta or Phoenix.

I think the way you do Ayton (after dumping Bertans to Utah), is you send Olynyk and THJ to Phoenix (others can argue if 16 or 28 or both or neither need to be added).  Whatever draft capital it takes (if any) can be combined with Shamet to bring in someone more valuable.  If Atlanta wants to play along, that’s their business, but their part of this isn’t critical to Dallas.