Yeah which is why we should have never traded for Conley in the first place. The moment we traded for him, it's done. It's game over. We had no choice but to bring him back because we had no cap space even if we just let him walk.
He should still have some value for the right team. His numbers last year were decent enough, shooting over 40% from 3. I thought he would have been perfect for the Sixers a year ago for example, before the Simmons drama and trade.
The Mavericks, assuming they lose Brunson, are a logical fit. The Pelicans also make sense.
How so exactly?
Its not... under the old rules it would be helpful. Now its either waive him or keep him at $7M. He counts for $0 in a trade unless his contract is guaranteed.
Ingles was traded for one reason that’s too obvious for me to even mention. There’s no intention of that TPE being used. In fact, we’re now in a worse position, because instead of having Joe off our cap this year, we’ve now got $5M of NAW. That’s going to be a lot of tax as collateral of the money we “saved” trading Joe. The only way we use the TPE is if that’s the only logistical way to pick up a particular guy and we were dumping salary elsewhere. But even then that move wouldn’t happen because it would imply we’re trading some draft asset (that we don’t have) to pick up a theoretical Ingles TPE player. But, more importantly, it isn’t going to be Noel.
That’s tomorrow? Thank goodness. Way too many posts implying keeping him at his salary or trading him for someone that effectively means we intended to keep that salary on the books, which we didn’t. And won’t. And now I won’t ever have to explain this again come tomorrow, unless we get the inevitable “why didn’t we _____ with Juancho.”
6/30 guarantee date... so I assume the news comes out tomorrow that we are waiving him.
I think they would to an extent... I think they were one of the teams interested in him during FA. It would be like Tim Hardaway Jr. for Mike I guess? Not really improving the defense there.
I think the theoretical Washington deals are better and make more sense but there might be something there with Dallas.
That would be great. Would love to hear Locke sell that as a win now move... and hear TJ talk about how we are all in... and hear Andy screaming at the top of his lungs about how its BS. Locke and TJ talking about how valuable that TPE is and how much flexibility we have and yada yada...
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