I'm not sure what Jersey's incentive is to do a S&T, unless they're planning on using the MLE on someone else. They aren't going to give BBD a deal at more than the MLE, no one else is going to and Danny won't match if it's just for $5M/yr. They're only going to want to do a S&T instead of just signing him to an offer sheet if they're unloading dead weight like Najera... but then where's the incentive for us?
I would like to take Dooling off their hands, but that's probably not enough incentive for them unless we also took Najera off their hands. Can't imagine they'd let Lee go.
What are their plans for Batman? If he's not going to play for them, he'd be an outstanding fourth big for us, and he's only got one more year at $6.2M. They could give BBD a 3yr/$15M contract, we'd execute it as a S&T for Batman, we'd get a good veteran big for our rotation and they'd save on his salary. Batman's contract could be really useful at the trade deadline, especially if, say... Powe came back healthy and could fill in that fourth-big role for us.
EDIT: I don't see Batman as being done. His numbers were down a little last year, but you've got to attribute some of that, at least, to the emergence of Gortat in the backup spot. Given that his minutes were down, there really wasn't much of a decline in his rebounding and points production. Shelf life of Tony Battie is limited, and he's overpaid pretty significantly at this point, but he'd be useful in that same, 15-minutes per night role.
I do wonder whether they'd be willing to bite the bullet and take on that salary, even for just a year. That'd be a real nice trade chip, though.
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