Two years ago I would have said yes. But if you can get Rob right and healthy he's WAY more valuable to us. Don't the Ayton moves the needle like Rob does. Plus he's a Tatum guy. You don't move those.

Why? He is essentially the same player as Rob that will command 20 mil more/year.

HARD PASS

no way I would do that this year, Timelord showed WAY too much game changing ability for us.
That is giving up way too much for Ayton.

I might do that, but mostly because I don't think Rob is ever going to be healthy.  He just seems like a guy that is always going to have something.

I do think Ayton can really grow into an excellent 2-way player.  He would be a pretty solid 3rd option.

I think Rob Williams gets over-rated here in many cases.  Ayton was 17 pts / 10 rebs last season, pretty consistent with his career average.  RWill got to 10 pts for the first time last season.  Rob may have better defensive quickness but Ayton is a better player and more durable.

Don't see this trade though.  It would be a S&T which as mentioned would hard cap us and we are already over the cap.  We can't do a sign and trade unless we do a radical salary dump.  Short of a major salary dump, we cannot sign and trade.  It is not allowed if we are over the tax cap.

He is a RFA and his QO is about $16.4M.  That is already a pretty big number.  I would think that PHO will make that qualifying offer.  We'll see what other offers he gets.  There are not a lot of teams that are going to have cap space to make $20M+ offers.

I think Rob Williams gets over-rated here in many cases.  Ayton was 17 pts / 10 rebs last season, pretty consistent with his career average.  RWill got to 10 pts for the first time last season.  Rob may have better defensive quickness but Ayton is a better player and more durable.

Don't see this trade though.  It would be a S&T which as mentioned would hard cap us and we are already over the cap.  We can't do a sign and trade unless we do a radical salary dump.  Short of a major salary dump, we cannot sign and trade.  It is not allowed if we are over the tax cap.

He is a RFA and his QO is about $16.4M.  That is already a pretty big number.  I would think that PHO will make that qualifying offer.  We'll see what other offers he gets.  There are not a lot of teams that are going to have cap space to make $20M+ offers.

I wouldn't be worried about the hard cap if I had faith in my team to start the season. BS shouldn't worry about it. Few teams have must make moves in season.

If I'm the Suns I don't want to play the QO game. Today's NBA could see a player bank on himself and leave and they get maybe a TPE. They should pay him.

Absolutely not. Rob is better , fits with our guys, has a tough-minded mentality, and brings an X factor that powerfully changes the game in our favor in a way nobody else does. If anything I'd focus on expanding Rob's role in our offense going forward.