Thoughts on just completely making over the team with Stevens at the helm (we’ll see who tunes him out after shipping out virtually everyone from 2020-2021):
https://tradenba.com/trades/xSrOCp96JThe big moves are:
1) Tatum and Smart for KAT and Anthony Edwards
2) Brown and Carsen Edwards for Haliburton, Barnes and SAC’s 2022 1st round pick
Our top duo get shipped west so we do not need to see them all but twice per year, if that.
We then salary dump Kemba to his hometown, and move Timelord, TT and that Sac 1st for RJ Barrett.
The only survivors of the purge would be Pritchard, Nesmith and Langford (and even Langford should be dangled in the draft if he has any value).
Here would be the lineup heading into the draft:
Haliburton/Pritchard/Madar
A. Edwards/Langford
Barrett/Nesmith
Barnes
KAT
Obviously draft the best available 4/5 (if we just tank now, which we ought to do, maybe we get lucky in the lottery and end up with Evan Mobley or Jaylen Johnson?). Then we use the MLE on a 4/5 (Theis, Theis, baby? Or Kelly Olynyk?). Finally, shore up the bench with vet minimum deals (Avery Bradley? Evan Turner?).
Thoughts? Any other wholesale makeover ideas that make sense?