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Could you / would you parlay Westbrook?

Handlogten's Heros said:
I've looked at the list too... Grant Williams, Cam Johnson, Naz Reid, Jalen McDaniels, PJ Washington, Kuzma, Hart, Grant, Strus... those are off the top of the dome. You can also make uneven trades for good players... its just weird to say "unless we sign one of these two guys or take salary dumps the cap space is wasted".
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Point is, have a plan to use that space. If you took that as me literally saying there are only two guys my bad. But I don’t have high hopes for our cap space. Certainly not the ultimatum some have made it out to be.
 
Rehab Simmons' value. Give it a year from now. Either he's good and you want to keep him or... imagine if you even could get a return of 75% of what his value used to be? Or even 50%? That's a huge return. Obviously there's risk with him not regaining his value, but that'd be huge to parlay Simmons into any kind of possible return of his previous value. It'd be humongous getting that at the cost of a guy we were going to buy out.
 
KqWIN said:
Point is, have a plan to use that space. If you took that as me literally saying there are only two guys my bad. But I don’t have high hopes for our cap space. Certainly not the ultimatum some have made it out to be.
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Its not a panacea but its also not useless like some say. Like everything you have to have a plan of course... but the plan isn't just one or two guys... its to be opportunistic.
 
infection said:
Rehab Simmons' value. Give it a year from now. Either he's good and you want to keep him or... imagine if you even could get a return of 75% of what his value used to be? Or even 50%? That's a huge return. Obviously there's risk with him not regaining his value, but that'd be huge to parlay Simmons into any kind of possible return of his previous value. It'd be humongous getting that at the cost of a guy we were going to buy out.
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As much as I hate to admit it, this is a solid move if we’re acquiring assets and looking toward the future instead of the immediate.
 
So why doesn't the Nets just wait for Westbrook to be bought out then go get him wihtout having to trade Simmons? Is that not possible?
 
It was reported that the Celtics and Ainge had interest in Simmons two trade deadlines ago. I could see him doing it if the draft compensation was right.
 
If the Nets were open to that in the first place, I don’t see why they wouldn’t just work with the Lakers initially. Didn’t hear a peep about Durant in any of those deals.
 
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