Let’s say we’re at the deadline and sitting in thirteenth place. Would you consider these moves for a rebuild:
BOS In: Ja Morant, Tyrese Haliburton, Davion Mitchell, Harrison Barnes, Steven Adams, 2023 1st Swap W/SAC (Best to BOS)
BOS Out: Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Juancho Hernangomez, Bruno Fernando
MEM In: Jayson Tatum
MEM Out: Ja Morant, Steven Adams
SAC In: Jaylen Brown, Juancho Hernangomez, Bruno Fernando
SAC Out: Tyrese Haliburton, Davion Mitchell, Harrison Barnes, 2023 1st Swap W/SAC (Best to BOS)
Obviously we’d also move Schröder to the highest bidder at the deadline. Perhaps we ship Smart alongside him and take on an expiring contract and two first-round picks?
Heading into the off-season, we’d have a top pick and the following after stretching Horford:
Morant/Mitchell/Pritchard
Haliburton/Smart/Richardson/Langford
Barnes/Nesmith
GWill
Adams/Timelord
Bring back Horford at the 4/5, and move both Smart and Richardson for more front court depth. Also use up those TPEs to build more depth at the 3/4.
Personally would love to transition away from JT/JB towards Morant/Halliburton if at all possible. Possibly provides flexibility to sign a major free agent in 2022/2023, as well, especially if we can move Smart, Richardson and Timelord for picks (Barnes and Adams would expire at the start of the 2023 off-season, so we could potentially go into that off-season with Mitchell, Pritchard, Haliburton and Nesmith on rookie contracts with plenty of room to sign at least one max free agent and extend Morant).