Listening to both local and national pods has me wondering if there is a potential Knicks/Celtics trade where the C's take Alec Burks and Cam Reddish into the TPE so the Knicks can sign Brunson.
I think the Cs can take both Reddish and Burks into the Fournier TPE, but I am hardly a cap expert.
I'd rather bring back Fournier than Burks & Reddish.
Yeah, I'd much prefer Fournier since he is easily the best player of the three, but also think we deserve draft compensation. The Knicks traded the #13 pick and Kemba Walker's expiring $8M contract for the 2025 MIL Bucks pick (projected to be much later than #13). If we are taking on $37M-$56M in salary (3rd year is a TO), then we deserve something back - especially since the Knicks are desperate to clear salary.
I would be surprised if the C’s used the TPE to take on a not good contract/salary dump for draft compensation. I expect them to try to get someone long-term for the top 7 of their rotation, and maybe I’m a Fournier-hater, but I don’t think he’s top-7 for a contender. The defense is way too suspect.
The more I think about it a trade like Burks, Reddish and a #1 could be a needed intermediate trade to get an impact player without hitting the core.
Right now outside of the top 7, we only have Theis 8.6, Grant 4.3, Nesmith 3.8, PP, 2.2 to match salaries. So to get a player making over 20ish we'd need to send out one of our top 6 and for a max player we'd need to send out 2 for our top 6. Post trade we'd add a 10m and 6m salaries which gives us the flexibility ability to take on bigger contracts with less or no impact to our rotation. Plus another first send out in a that trade
Absolutely. We NEED to add more contracts not just for depth but so we have outgoing salary to match if a star becomes available.
It will make it so much easier to add a true impact piece later on via trade without totally gutting our roster.
Look at how key the D'Angelo Russell trade was for the Warriors. If they don't make that trade they don't land Wiggins and don't win a title.
This is a bit of revisionist history on the Wiggins trade. They got a lightly protected first from a lottery team to take on his contract, as he was a giant bust at the time. Worked out for the Warriors that two years of coaching later they were able to turn him into a really good player, but that trade about acquiring a lottery pick from a bad team, and maybe turning that pick plus Wiggins with less money owed in the future into a new star.
Wiggins was never a bad player. I mean the season he was traded he was averaging 22.4 ppg, 5.2 rpg, and 3.7 apg with a not great but not terrible TS% of 53.5, while playing average defense.
He didn't live up to, imo unrealistic, expectations and was called a bust for it, but he was always a solid player. A nice quality #3 type player, that was expected to be a #1 or #2, and thus deemed a failure when it turned out he was a nice quality #3 type player (and he is probably more like a 2.5). But Wiggins, as a #1 pick, was expected to play like #1 picks and I just think that made people think he was a bad player when he never was.
He was arguably the worst defender in the NBA for multiple seasons prior to the trade. He was straight up bad. There was the season being guarded by Wiggins produced the same shooting percentage as being unguarded.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-nba-haters-ball/?ex_cid=538twitter A number 3 on offense paired with bad defense is a bad player, plain and simple, and not merely one who was given too much in the way of expectations.
Again, it worked out for the Warriors, but Wiggins was not in their plans. They were all set to make a trade involving his salary on draft night 2020 (after the bubble), and then Klay tore his Achilles that week, so they held off to wait for another year. Wiggins showed some improvement last year, but people still thought the Warriors would trade him once Klay returned if they wanted to make a push this season. And then, against all odds, Wiggins became good. Not just okay, but legit good. Power to him, and credit to the Warriors coaches and team culture, but that was not the plan when they acquired him.
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