Westbrook to Utah in Dunn sign and trade
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Help Dunn, get to the salary floor on the Clips dime, minor (tiny) asset. Not sure what yall were expecting. The real miss here is not moving him at the trade deadline.
Could be something if the Jazz are good and the Clippers suck in whatever year in the future this is (you can find guys through about pick 40).
They’re just trying to save money.
Here’s my stab at making this bigger than it probably is:
This might be a signal that the Jazz are gonna trade Lauri. If they R&E him, they’ll be at the salary floor, at which point they can do a lot better than this for renting the precious remaining capspace. If they don’t do the R&E then they should be looking for opportunities to eat up some cap and the asset the Jazz got out of this seems more in line with that outcome.
This might be a signal that the Jazz are gonna trade Lauri. If they R&E him, they’ll be at the salary floor, at which point they can do a lot better than this for renting the precious remaining capspace. If they don’t do the R&E then they should be looking for opportunities to eat up some cap and the asset the Jazz got out of this seems more in line with that outcome.
WB salary is $4M. They could not sign Dunn to this money outright as they only have min. Trading WB allows Dunn to get a contract of up to 200% of WB’s $4M outgoing salary.
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The cash and doing right by Dunn are the biggest motivators here.
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Don't read anything into it. This thing was done when FA opened. Tony knew about it really early.
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Forget all this other noise, just happy that Dunn finally got his bag and a chance to play backup point to Harden- that’s huge!
The Jazz only have 3 second round picks, 29/30/31. If the Clippers are really bad in w/e year the pick is and the Jazz are really good, that's the difference between drafting a Filipowski level talent and getting someone with an extremely small shot at the NBA.
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Agreed. There isn't any harm in making sure Dunn got his.
Consider this....The Hornets got DEN's 25, 29, and 30 second round picks for taking on Reggie Jackson's $5.25M contract. The Jazz got a single second round swap and cash to take on WB's $4M deal.
The Hornets sold their cap space for future picks. The Jazz sold their cap space for extra cash.
The Hornets sold their cap space for future picks. The Jazz sold their cap space for extra cash.
Mike Malone is one of those coaches who hates young guys and loves vets, even if they are over the hill. He probably pushed for it to.
Cash can’t exceed $7,005,000
TheStormofWar
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I think a large portion of it was getting Dunn to the Clips, honestly. We do free Dunn's caphold and still have the roster spot open when we buyout Russ.
Which is what I said.