01-09-2024, 10:53 PM
(01-09-2024, 09:18 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Interesting. When I saw the Fisher quote, it wasn’t associated with Siakam like the tweet you posted. So, my mind went to PF’s in the mid $20mm range where we are reducing salary (kind of like what Jom posted as there are several candidates in that range on the market).
If I had seen the tweet you posted above, my mind would have done the same thing. Vegas has apparently done the same thing as Dallas is now the favorite for Siakam at +150. I like the angles people are taking with the Pistons and Magic potentially having interest in THJ. When I click the link to your Fanspo trade nothing comes up. I’m interested in what you posted. One thing of note…THJ and Holmes misses the mark by a few hundred thousand dollars. So, if it is the two of them for Siakam, then some salary has to be added.
Below is my stab at the Detroit version of this. So that Killer doesn’t have a conniption, Killian is only here as expiring money to help with the DJJ retention. I believe the Dallas outgoing matches the Siakam max and expiring Hayes gets you that much further below the apron (solving FG’s concerns). I do think this costs the unprotected 2027 and I’m happy to pay it.
Detroit out: Stewart/Hayes. In: THJ/Temple
Dallas out: GWill/THJ/Holmes/2027. In: Siakam/Hayes
Toronto out: Siakam/Temple. In: Stewart/GWill/Holmes/2027
Dallas stays under the tax by $500k. We might need to find a team willing to take Holmes for a second (I mentioned Washington has a TPE that would absorb him). Toronto ends up with two useful players for the here and now and the Dallas pick. Detroit gets a useful vet/local hero in THJ and a locker room stud in Temple while moving on from guys who have been on the block for them. Dallas gets its third star and still has plenty to put around them.
I was just playing with salaries. Detroit got THJ and Holmes, sent Harris and Stewart to Toronto that also got Hardy.