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

[Dundalis]

I wonder if Boston is lying in wait for the Miami/Portland negotiations to break down.  Maybe the extra $12.5mm spread with GWill outgoing is what facilitates Brown for Lillard.  It misses by about $1.3mm meaning Boston adds a minimum or asks Dallas to pay Williams just a bit more (and maybe we keep one of the 2nds to help them out?).  Dallas has room to do this and stay under the tax.


Unrelated:  Dalton Trigg posted a trade idea (I don’t think it is based on any sourcing, just an idea) that has THJ being swapped for Bojan B.  It gets Hardaway to Detroit and fulfills the Mav’s long held interest in Bogdanovic.  Dalton complicates this by adding McGee to the deal and has Dallas giving up three second rounders.  Of course, you have to have the seconds, which we don’t yet which might be why this hasn’t happened yet.

I kind of wonder if we’d be better off with Bojan coming off the bench.  Having someone like him handling distribution duties for the second unit would allow Luka and Kyrie to play together more as they wouldn’t be absolutely necessary to a second unit that had Bojan and Hardy

Holmes. Lively.  Powell
           
GWill.    Maxi    Prosper
           
Green.  Bojan.  Lawson

Luka.    Hardy.  Seth

Irving.              Exum

A big and/or defensive wing IMO should be the minimum we return in any trade/s from here on. Bojan simply doesn't move the needle enough over THJ IMO, plus he's older. If we make this move, plus another to acquire that big or another versatile defensive wing, then ok, but as the final trade of the offseason, I would not bother with this, certainly not giving up additional assets like the second rounders which could be valuable in a more pressing acquisitions.