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[JamesConway]

In terms of salary matching we really don’t have to give up much to make the numbers work.

For instance:

Lee + Powell
Lee + Wright
Lee + Seth + Broekhoff

would all be doable. That’s basically one rotation guy added to Lee/Bro who both don’t play regularly.

We could also utilize the TE to absorb more salary (Galloway) to bolster out a trade offer in addition to e.g. the GS pick.

Salary matching is not a problem. You have to add at least one young guy. This already makes a problem, as Detroit needs to cut 2 of their own players (or send them elsewhere). If they give us Snell in our TE, they still need to cut at least one guy. It would be much easier if the trade would include THJ:

THJ+JJ+Brunson+picks for Drummond and Snell

I agree in terms of value being needed. But matching-wise we are in a decent spot. Adding Drummond could make Powell (and/or Boban) redundant in our frontcourt and we are almost too deep at PG/SG anyway. Barea rarely ever plays yet it still feels like one or more of Brunson/Wright/Curry are being underutilized.
Imo we are in a good spot to consolidate our rotation to an extent.