Just a thought here, if Ainge wants to re-sign crowder and Jerebko or Bass or Diatome, we are going to need some additional wiggle room if we also want to offer a max or near max contract to Love, Aldridge, Butler, Monroe, Monta Ellis etc
Would #16 be enough to dump a year of Gerald Wallace's contract in order to have $10 million dollars more to spend on free agents?
I am positive its a strategy Ainge has considered.
for a team that is desperate for multiple picks and is under the cap enough to do it outright like the 76 ers or a team like the Clippers that might do a sign and trade for a player like Jamal Crawford as they don't have a first rounder this year. The Mavs also might do it for a sign and trade for Monta if they don't want to re-sign him in order to make a run at Aldridge.
I think this could be a realistic outcome if we can't move up.
quite the opposite in fact.
a. Wallace's deal is an expiring contract and offers the amount of salary filler we'd need in a trade for a top player in any possible trade deadline deals
b. pointless to open up cap space by giving away assets when there's no immediate need for that cap space (i.e. there aren't
2 max FAs to sign where we'd need that $)
c. even if no deal materializes where we use him, he's off the books next year anyway without costing us anything and he can continue to mentor the younger players during the season
d.
IF Danny had to move Wallace for that space, the most it would cost is #28 and could very likely move him for #33 instead.
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