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2024-25 Trade Rumors Thread

Yeah I mean that moving screen had no consequences cuz it was a non shooting foul lol. Y’all are acting like Sexton had time to do some full assessment of all the risks and potential routes to defend that last possession. Like with 4 seconds left (who knows if he got a good look at the clock after all he just did) he can sit back like we did and analyze what the best way is to turn a 10% OT probability into a 5% OT probability.
Oh, I missed this particular defense of Sexton. Should we at least expect that Sexton could in those 4 seconds not completely lose his man steaking to the rim and then not miss Cody hopelessly signaling him that "Man, your man is running away right there, follow him!"? Or is it too much to ask our beloved defensive savant Sexton too?

It is pretty sad and pathetic when a rookie after several games has a better awareness of the defensive positioning and has to point out to the veteran his mistakes. But I guess I should just mindlessly stick to the oft-repeated statement of faith: "Sexton is really hustling on defense and has greatly improved his understanding of the game - it is only his 6' height that makes him a defensive liability".
 
Can you use the room MLE to absorb salary? Also, wouldn’t there be numerous teams that could do something similar (SA, OKC, Detroit come immediately to mind as possibilities)?
We only have the room MLE but yes. It is $8M. Detroit may or may not have the room mle SA likely has full mle. OKC would likely be in the tax if they did... would have to look at it. Its new so we will see what teams do with it. It is an avenue to getting a deal done and I don't think a lot of teams will take multiyear salary but who knows.
 
There are like 5-6 teams within reach of ducking the tax and a few that likely want to save a couple bucks but won't get out of the tax. There will be an opportunity for us to help if we want to.
 
Not only are Sexton and Collins not involved in trades, they're not even in any rumors. I mean these dudes don't even seem to exist to the rest of the league.

Not surprising. They both had negative reps to begin with, and now the stench of tanking covers everything.

Several teams are rumored to be interested in Collins.
 
Jazz get 2 x 1sts for facilitating the Jimmy Butt trade.

Suns upgrade beal to Butt.

Miami gets off Butler and have 2 players that help them now without jeopardizing their 2026 free agent aspirations.

Beal would have to agree to it and he probably wouldn't but we are paying 1 extra year more than we are currently committed to.
 
If we were able to get these two picks for this trade, I would offer Beal`s agent an immediate buyout if he agreed to waive his no trade clause. His full salary for this and next year with maybe 10-15 million for his last contract year would not hurt our finances very much with where we are.
 
If we were able to get these two picks for this trade, I would offer Beal`s agent an immediate buyout if he agreed to waive his no trade clause. His full salary for this and next year with maybe 10-15 million for his last contract year would not hurt our finances very much with where we are.
No owner is paying that much cash to buy a player out. That's giving up 110 Milly on the spot. That's a lot of $$$ for even an extremely rich person.
 
Jazz get 2 x 1sts for facilitating the Jimmy Butt trade.

Suns upgrade beal to Butt.

Miami gets off Butler and have 2 players that help them now without jeopardizing their 2026 free agent aspirations.

Beal would have to agree to it and he probably wouldn't but we are paying 1 extra year more than we are currently committed to.
Beal would never agree to it
 
No owner is paying that much cash to buy a player out. That's giving up 110 Milly on the spot. That's a lot of $$$ for even an extremely rich person.
It would count towards the salary floor that we have to reach, right? If so it would not have to be an extra cost as we would have to pay a certain amount in salary no matter what.
 
It would count towards the salary floor that we have to reach, right? If so it would not have to be an extra cost as we would have to pay a certain amount in salary no matter what.
Yeah but it's the difference between paying it all out at once vs over time?
 
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