The season has just started, but already it's clear that some teams will not be competitive this season and may be interested during the course of the season to trade good player(s) for assets.
Considering the situation of the Celtics the list of options in the poll are small.
What we assume here is that we are willing to trade Derrick White and Mitchell Robinson (and perhaps add Jordan Walsh), since we believe their performances are and will be subpar for their contracts 3 years running. And we obviously don't want to go into the tax this year and we look here to shred longterm salary. So total contracts of around 40-50 million with max 2 years remaining.
A team with a bad record, but probably don't want to give up their best player(s) yet is Indiana (Siakam). With Washington (Davis) and Phoenix (Booker) the problem is that we would probably end up in the tax (both earning 55M+) making the trade. Orlando (Banchero etc.) and Utah (Markkanen) I have excluded since their long contracts wouldn't help with our longterm payroll.
We would have to give up assets, in some cases a bit more than others, but I wouldn't expect something extravagant. Would you entertain these options, you have 3 votes? Or have you some construction of plater(s) in the same thinking line that I haven't considered? Disclaimer that Robinson and Harper can be traded as of December 15th.
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