06-18-2023, 05:01 PM
We are traveling and my wife asked why I was grabbing my iPad because nothing changed since the last time I looked this morning. Ha! Jokes on her (unfortunately, she has no idea who Beal and CP3 are).
There will be other deals like this where the return will seem ridiculous. But a small number of teams are going to be willing to spend if they have some star power in place already. Others will go way out of their way to move off of bad money. Beal is bad money. People seem to understand Atlanta might have to pay to move Collins in the mid-20’s, but can’t understand how Beal might not draw a return in the mid-50’s?
I tend to doubt Paul will be waived. The Wiz had to guarantee more of his money to make the trade match work. Do you waive him for $25mm or play him for $30mm? I think the latter.
Phoenix is at about $161mm for four players. So, they presumably will try to fit 10 more players in about $18mm of salary? It is an almost certainty that LAC and GSW will operate over the second apron for at least a year. Why not Phoenix?
I don’t have a good read on Ayton at this point. Phoenix should probably try to get 2-3 guys who are 5th-7th man types. Surely some other team has more of these type pieces who are better than Reggie, Maxi and McGee. It doesn’t feel to me like Dallas can get something like that done without at least some draft compensation or one of our youngsters (not necessarily #10…could be the pick(s) we have left after a trade down).
There will be other deals like this where the return will seem ridiculous. But a small number of teams are going to be willing to spend if they have some star power in place already. Others will go way out of their way to move off of bad money. Beal is bad money. People seem to understand Atlanta might have to pay to move Collins in the mid-20’s, but can’t understand how Beal might not draw a return in the mid-50’s?
I tend to doubt Paul will be waived. The Wiz had to guarantee more of his money to make the trade match work. Do you waive him for $25mm or play him for $30mm? I think the latter.
Phoenix is at about $161mm for four players. So, they presumably will try to fit 10 more players in about $18mm of salary? It is an almost certainty that LAC and GSW will operate over the second apron for at least a year. Why not Phoenix?
I don’t have a good read on Ayton at this point. Phoenix should probably try to get 2-3 guys who are 5th-7th man types. Surely some other team has more of these type pieces who are better than Reggie, Maxi and McGee. It doesn’t feel to me like Dallas can get something like that done without at least some draft compensation or one of our youngsters (not necessarily #10…could be the pick(s) we have left after a trade down).
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