It sounds sensible, but please give me an example of a realistic sample non-Westbrook trade involving someone with a higher salary than Gay that helps us reduce our number of players and reduces our payroll significantly.
I think it's just working around the margins, like I said in my original comment. We're not going to be reducing the number of players that need to be waived. And they may not end up being easier cuts to make (do you prefer cutting Torrey Craig or Jae Crowder over Rudy Gay, for example)? And any fiscal savings will be relatively minor--a few million here and there at best--since there are no TPEs out there that can accommodate our larger salaries.
What am I missing here? How do individual trades help solve our (real) numbers crunch and our (non-real) salary crunch?