They just need someone to take the contracts of shumpert and frye and they'll have enough money to offer wade a reasonable contract.
That isn't true. James would be at 26/27 million.
You're making the assumption that James would require 26/27 million. I'm making the assumption they could just dump Shumpert and Frye and he and his boyfriend could split the 40 million in cap space the team would have. It would be about more than money for those guys. Have Wade take 18 and LeBron take 22. Whatever. They are getting swept by the 82 win Warriors anyways - might as well go for broke.
They don't need to do any complicated sign and trades or move Love or Thompson. They just need to ring up a team like Brooklyn and say, "Hey, we'll give you a 1st rounder if you take Shumpert and Frye off our hands". Brooklyn says "sure". End of story.
Sure, you can assume that, but no one is going to agree with that assumption, since neither of them are going to give up that much money from what they're owed.
well most are just claiming Wade will take a 3.5 mil exception. So the both of them splitting 40 mil is a little less ridiculous.
No serious source is saying that lol I saw Rachel Nichols making fun of people on Twitter today for saying this lol
From what I remember, Wade needs the money after his divorce took a lot of it away from him. He has several other attractive options that he can take before simply ring-chasing for merely $3M lol Denver, Milwaukee, and Chicago will all give him close to what he's wanting to sign him.
In fact, we might want to hope that Milwaukee signs him, because then they'd virtually be forced to give up one of Middleton, Giannis, or Parker.