I wonder if this would be possible:
Say BOS trades Crowder, Smart, and future picks to IND for George
I wonder if we could offer Crabbe, Leonard, and lottery protected 2018 and 2020 1sts to INDIANA for Crowder. (Basically, in a 3-Team Deal)
I would certainly do that. Crowder replaces Crabbe, we save $22M, and it would almost put us in position to sign MLE FAs up to $8Mper
Sign and trades would be more possible as we would still have Harkless, Davis, Aminu, and Vonleh to trade out. We could go after almost any free agent we wanted, as that's a good package for a team to receive in a sign-and-trade. Those four could net us $31M in return.
I'd go after max or near max forwards like Blake Griffin, Gordon Hayward, Serge Ibaka
If we couldn't sign-and-trade for one of those, I'd go after near max 6th Man guards such as Jrue Holiday and George Hill
If we couldn't sign-and-trade for one of those, I'd go after role players such as James Johnson, Andre Iguodala, Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph, Amir Johnson, Patrick Patterson.