I find speculating pointless, especially when it's the same two players dissected every time. But the only deal for Butler that makes sense is Bradley, Zeller and the Brooklyn pick. Zeller is only in there to match salaries. If we are going all-in with Isaiah, it might be a good idea to pair him with tall shooting guards. Butler is worth more than both Bradley and the Brooklyn pick, but not the two put together. The draft as crapshoot makes it tough to put these kind of deals together. Might as well say if it happens, it happens, otherwise this is stupid. Cousins would have to cost a lot more. I'd say both Nets picks, one of our non-scrub players and then the Amirs and Zellers so ESPN approves it.
I dont get how that deal makes sense - are we starting Green at SG?
We need what Bradley brings, plus he's a great locker room but and the longest tenured Celtic. He had worked his butt of since the day he got drafted here, he deserves to stay and im not sure Butler at the SG is what is like.
Trade crowder instead, it makes way more sense of its Butler were trading for, and he already told the fans that need have no hesitation walking to another team. So let him go.
The argument is that the Bulls will want a young-ish NBA starter quality guy with low cost in their control to replace Butler, who while paid $18M per is probably "underpaid" given the new contracts being rolled out and his locked up at that price for 2 more years.
So if you buy that argument as the basis for the trade, there 4 people on our roster that meet that criteria: IT, AB, Crowder, Smart. At least one of them has to go back to Chicago just to get the discussion started. Which one of those guys do you give up? IT is obviously out at this point. Smart would be a logical choice because of his age and perceived offensive limits, but I doubt Danny trades him in any deal unless it is for Cousins. Crowder is almost locked up for too long at too cheap a price to trade to anyone.
So it leaves you with AB: he has one year left on his bargain deal and will likely get Butler-level money on the market. If you want to resign IT in 2018 you cannot resign AB without going deep into the luxury tax and while I believe Wyc would do that he didn't become a billionaire by shelling out money. AB and Butler play they same position, AB is probably a better defender but not by a huge margin, and Butler is better on offense. It is a logical move from our end though I don't think Danny or Brad want to trade AB at all.
Having said that - I am not sure the Bulls want AB as he will be up for free agency in just one year and can walk. There will be a competitive market for him. Plus - even if the Bulls wanted AB as the core starting player the Cs send back, they are going to ask for at least Jaylen Brown AND a Nets pick on top of that.
That's when Danny hangs up the phone.
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