Nobody giving any feedback on this?
I think this would be a great trade, for now and for the future.
Do this, then follow that up by trading ET and our 1st to Sacremento for Kofous and their 2nd. Trade Harkless to New Orleans for Wesley Johnson, Darius Miller, and their 2nd (they wanted him in the past), and then use SAC's and NOP's 2nds to offload Meyers. It might have to be differently but I think we could off-load those contracts for expirings somehow.
Going into the off-season you'd have
Lillard - $29M
Nurkic - $12M
Collins - $4M
Brogdon - $4M cap hold?
Wilson - $2M
Simons - $2M
Swanigan - $2M
Dead Money - $5M
Total Against Cap - $60M
Cap Space - $46M
So $46M in cap space to add to 4 starters in Lillard, Brogdon, Collins, and Nurkic. We could then
- Go after Cousins by trading Nurkic for a pick and cap space ($57M in cap space after that). Cousins wanted to come here last year and we were (reportedly) the only team to offer him over $10M a year. He's tight with Dame. I think we could land him and finally have a legitimate 2nd star.
- Go after Klay Thompson (Bring him home, maybe GS doesn't offer him the max if they keep KD?)
- Go after Khris Middleton
The fall back plan would be having $46M to fill our starting SF roll and to fill out our bench. There's a number of very solid roll players available that I'd like.
This is my PLAN A.