New thought... A S+T of Hayward for AB + Jae leaves us 15 mil in cap room

[rondohondo]

Or use the cap right away in the same deal.
AB and Crowder
for
Favors and Hayward

IT/Rozier
Hayward/Smart
Brown/Tatum
Horford/Semi
Favors/Zizic

I would definitely be in Favor of this

Maybe they want KO back in a S+T as well

Ko, AB and Jae for Hayward and Favors

Add some non lottery picks and you may have a deal.

Might be something there.....

[Celtics4ever]

It doesn't have to be KO.

It shouldn't be him

[rondohondo]

Can anyone give me a definitive answer, is this possible under the CBA?

[Yoki_IsTheName]

We could also just use that $15 million in salary to sign and trade for a big man, while also having the option to trade them for an established player or send them out for no returning salary to sign a big outright. I can't see Danny locking into that plan unless he has a big in mind already

Exactly.

We could some big for a one year deal for that much, and we could use it as a trade chip (expiring contract) just in case.

[timpiker]

Why would we move AB and Crowder for Hayward when we can sign him outright?

This gives us less flexibility to fix the roster as two valuable pieces would be gone from it. Sign Hayward then use Crowder and AB to bring in other pieces.

This allows us to sign KO if we want, otherwise all we could offer him would be a vet min. Also would allow us to bring over Yabu. Maybe adding both KO and Yabu.

So yes it actually does give us more flexibility in some ways.

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