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Basically DA saw what Bridges went for, said hold up, pulled the E brake, whipped the car around and is seeing if he can get a similar haul for Lauri

 

Markkanen is worth moving future picks for.

 

Thanks. Day'Ron Sharpe? cause he's not a free agent until next summer.

Yeah, I don't see a world he goes for that cheap and that takes him out of play for us.

If you look around to similar bigs:

Nikola Vucevic is making $22 and Jakob Poeltl is making $18 million. You're not getting Jonas for nearly 1/4 of that.

I think he will have to take a slight haircut but that's a haircut for the NTPMLE

 

I think they're waiting to see if Hartenstein leaves or if they can get him to stay. With that raise, it's going to be either or. Teams asked about MR around the draft, namely the Wiz but I don't think they wanted to do anything without clarity on Hartenstein first.

Last summer they wanted multiple firsts for Robinson. Not doing that.

I don't think we have anything they'd want though. They have hundreds of millions invested in their wings, so no Vando or Rui.

I don't think DLO fits either. Thibs would murder him.

Now maybe if we take Randle's salary too, maybe they work with us but then you're having to come up with max salary level money to match and again, I don't think they're interested unless Austin is included.

 

DA knows the Knicks overpaid. Murray reset the market. No way anyone gives Utah more than a couple firsts for Lauri.

 

This intrigues me.

 

https://x.com/esidery/status/1807070461492117854?s=46&t=U-n_231mY-MLKHZr1Z-7og

 

He’s still in the League? I haven’t noticed.

 

Funniest outcome possible to Bron (potentially) taking a paycut is to go and use that money on CP3 and Love

 

Love?
Yes- but mostly for mentorship reasons. Can he even play anymore?
CPdirty?
No. Please, no.

 

Interesting developments. MLE candidates at the top of my head are Bridges (Klutch), Jones Jr. (Klutch), Klay, Melton, and Trent (Klutch). Trade exception candidates are WCJ, Portis, RWilliams, and Olynk. Sign and trade candidates are KCP (Klutch) and the forementioned MLE candidates.

 

Abeer was mentioning Detroit... they have A LOT of cap space and no need to go big game hunting with that space. We should work with them to clear up some of our cap jam.

 

this would be a huge win. i didn't realize the magic were going after hartenstein. a deal where they absorb the difference between dlo and wcj would help us quite a bit.

i don't like most of the other suggestions other than just signing valanciunas, which carries a risk as to get him at mle, you're committing long term to a 32 year old center.

 

btw, was looking at things, and if we have to move vando or rui for a non-forward, naji marshall is a free agent and NO doesn't really have the room or money for him.