I put this on the other board but I figured it fit this topic. I was wondering if you really think this team would be a "treadmill team" if you actually look at what could be done.
Trades
Cleveland
B. Haywood
Draft rights to PF R. Christmas
2016 or 2017 2nd rounder
to
Celtics
E. Turner
Draft rights to SG/PG M. Thornton
Bostons 2016 1st
Why do we do this? B. Haywood is no guaranteed, takes a good amount of money off the books 10.5 million Get back a young power forward/center in Christmas. Cleveland does this because they get the 1st round pick next year they want. A probably cheaper version of J.R. Smith who they've talked about wanting to keep, but could now let go. M. Thornton gives them a young guard who can play the point or shooting guard, just as well as Turner can do the same.
Second trade involves 76ers
76ers
Nerlens Noel
to
Celtics - This could be change with pieces if they rather an Avery Bradley. But this is ideal what I think works out really for best for us and them.
Kelly Olynyk
Draft rights to Terry Rozier
Chris Babb
2016 Dallas 1st
One or two of the 2016 2nd round picks we have
Why do we do this? Well it's easy to see, Nerlens Noel gives us our young rim protector, gives up a few picks that we won't be able to use, save us money. The bigger question most reading is why would 76ers do this, breaking it down piece by piece. Kelly Olynyk gives them a big to replace Noel but can play beside Okafor I believe better, he doesn't play under the hoop, he's more of a big stretch 4. Plus fill there role and would be a nice back up for either Okafor or Embiid. Terry Rozier, a good player but I don't think fits well in Boston with Smart and IT and Bradley. (Also I rather keep Smart, Bradley, IT over this rookie. But I do really like Roziers game and is worth a 1st round pick.) It gives 76ers a starter young point guard that can grow with the team and Okafor. Chris Babb is a good throw in piece to give them a cheap player who has shown flashes of ball skills. Then obviously a 1st rounder and 1 or 2 2nd rounder gives them more picks.
Resign Free Agent
Jae Crowder the only resign we do.
Two Max Deals (Believe this can happen because of the Haywood deal after letting him go. Plus with the other trades giving more cap rooms. If can get them each for a little under the max, it'll work out the best for us.)
Small Forward - Tobias Harris
Power Forward - Greg Monroe
Without getting too on how realistic this whole scenario may or may not be (the Philly transactions may be the toughest to sell), assuming you acquired the Brendan Haywood contract, in the first, you can turn around and trade it to match up to 15.5M in incoming salary. That gives you a disposable contract to match either Harris or Monroe, making acquiring one of them in a S&T very easy.
For the other, you could send Wallace' expiring 10M contract plus Babb's non-guaranteed contract plus a medium-quality 1st round draft pick to pay for the other team absorbing the 10M cost of GW's contract. Since they can subsequently stretch Wallace, they only take on a 3.3M cap hit (though they still pay the full 10M). That won't be felt much once the salary cap jumps by 22M next season.
So, you can acquire both Harris and Monroe on full max contracts (15.3M each) without having to renounce everything to get way under the cap. You might have to send something (a player or pick) of value to Orlando to facilitate the S&T of Harris, since he is an RFA. But for Monroe, being an UFA, Detroit can only expect modest compensation for facilitating the deal.
Some alternative steps that can be mixed in is to trade for other contracts that are all or partially non-guaranteed and then package them. Or possibly taking a bad contract back, though Danny probably wouldn't take back anything larger than the Prince TPE.
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