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

[dirkfansince1998]

To your point here, I think the Toronto beat writer is out of touch on the market for a potential free agent who can walk for free.  Recent reporting seems to reflect that.  He's asking for two useful players and 3-4 assets.  I suspect the deal is closer to two useful players and one asset.  Or one useful player and one asset.  Teams who give up too many things will only have the MLE to replace what was traded away if things go poorly.  Any one of Green/2027/OMax would be painful.  Losing two plus two rotation players like GWill and THJ won't happen IMHO.

One other thing...I don't believe the writer is correct about Josh's PP causing a LT issue.  The trade machine counts his higher number in team salary.  I believe PP is just a trade matching mechanism and doesn't add to team salary for tax purposes.  Too lazy to look it up, but no one is being paid that salary, so it logically wouldn't count.

Looking back at the last trade deadline. Kyrie's value was at an all time low due to his contract situation and off court issues. Siakam comes with the same questions about his future contract. Two useful players and one asset would be comparable to SD/DFS/1st. Is Siakam worth more/less?