You're the GM this offseason. What do you do?
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LoPo
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I wouldn't trade Favors to the Bucks. I would trade him to another team who would be willing to send minor draft capital (Sac, Boston, Atlanta?).
Then get assets from the Bucks for taking Ilyasova.
Then sign either Mirotic or Portis.
We end up with Ilyasova, Portis, and 2 or 3 2nd rounders.
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Tony Jones said during his Q and A on 'The Athletic' that the Jazz have a lot of interest in Mirotic, Thaddeus Young and Bojan Bogdanovic but he doesn't think Bogdanovic will leave Indiana, they also have interest in Portis but are hesitant because he's a restricted free agent. Thabo is for sure not coming back and the Jazz have no interest in bringing AB back even on a vet minimum contract. The Jazz waiving Favors and trading Ingles to free up cap space to try and sign Harris is not going to happen.
Yeah, cuz they’re not trading Ingles.
By the way, I’m calling out Tony’s double-speak: ‘Bogdonavic is the only guy the Jazz would waive Favors for.’
‘The Jazz are very interested in *a bunch of free agents that are worth the full MLE or higher*’
BOTH. THINGS. CAN’T. BE. TRUE.
campaignist
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Conley will too, the question is if the drop off in defense and the extra cost of finding a better back up center is worth it. I'm not convinced it is.
The EXTRA cost? Mate, Favors is being paid $17 million to backup Gobert (when he’s not making the team play worse alongside Gobert).
framer
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Dropping Favors gets you 17 million in capspace, adding Ilyasova gets you back 14 more. You now have 3 million in capspace. How are you getting Portis?
$14 mil over TWO years. $7-ish million this year.
framer
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I'm thinking the Jazz end up with Portis. Washington already has 2 free agents they prize more and are capped out after that. They just drafted their Bobby Portis replacement. He's available, but we would have to overpay to get him, not leaving much of the Favors salary apple left to build a bench.
framer
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7 million still doesn't get you Portis. We should just get Portis and not mess around with Ilyasova.
$7 million is Ilyasova’s salary. Subtracted from $17 million. Which would give you $10 million to go after Portis. Not $7 million.
Anyway, spending all that space on two 4s would be dumb, so
framer
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If you could get Portis for 10 to 12 million, that would be amazing. I think 15 is the magic number that chases Washington away though.