BOS In: Mikal Bridges, Jae Crowder, Bismack Biyambo, 2028 PHX 1st (unprotected), 2029 PHX 1st swap (top one protection)
PHX In: JB, Kornet, 2023 POR 2nd, 2023 2nd (NOT the ORL pick)
Gives us four years of Bridges at a bargain, depth our team needs, a potentially exceptional pick, and signals to JT that this is his team and his team alone with a Big 3 where Bridges, Smart, Timelord, and Brogdon will rotate from night to night who’s 2, who’s 3 and who’s next. Also enables us to move Brogdon back into a starting role, where an offensive talent like him truly belongs.
If we think JB may jump ship and/or we simply cannot afford to pay both JT/JB max money and still have a contender built around them, this deal makes a lot of sense.
The deal makes us 11-deep right now (10 until Timelord is back), and undeniably makes us the best defense in the league (Bridges was runner-up to Smart for DPOY, and Timelord is another DPOY contender):
Smart/D-White
Brogdon/D-White
Bridges/Crowder
Tatum/Batman
Timelord/Horford
Bench: Pritchard, Biyambo, Gallinari (deep in playoffs if we’re lucky), Hauser