How do you move up in the draft after the draft?
That wasn't the question, frankie.
How do you move up in the draft after the draft?
Kanter could fetch the #16 and #19 if we took Boozer's contract back. That clears almost enough space for Chicago to sign Mello.
Kanter, because he could actually get you value back. Burks will just bring back meh pieces.
Boozer would be valuable filler to trade to a team wanting to make a playoff push. This is probably the most overlooked franchise building tool.
Trading Kanter avoids the contract extension drama. The Jazz will most likely offer him $6mm per, which is his value, but also a punch in the stomach that would sour their relationship with him for good.
16, 19, 23 gives you a lot of wiggle room to package to move up, or to package for quality starters.
Boozer can be bought out for much less than $16.8mm. Someone would want him for $8-10, which makes the total hit to salary cap pretty negligible after subtracting Kanter's out.
When has stringing together a slew of first round picks outside the lottery ever turned into something positive? Nobody wants that garbage and won't give you a good asset for it. I would be more interested in three early second round picks than that. Of the three guys you draft there the odds are that only one of them would be in the NBA three years later and he would be a fringe bench guy. But you will be paying those guys for three years. No thanks.