re: The Official Trade Proposal Thread

As i said, if both come back, they literally cannot do anything to help their team get better but sign minimum contracts.
and it means they'll be a second apron team for the 3rd straight year, with a massive tax payout and the restrictions of their 1st round pick moving to last (whenver they actually have one), all they can pretty much do trade wise is send someone out and take back less money, and they don't have any picks of any kind to trade b/c the 2nd apron comes with not being able to trade a 1st 7 years out.

PJ Tucker has a player option for $11.5M, and his 40 year old arse ain't opting out of it, and he does not want to be there and they don't want him. They can't dump him anywhere unless they attach Powell or Mann to it, and it would need to be to a team with cap space.
Do they really believe the current rostered team can win a championship, and are willing to pay the ridiculous repeater tax again, as well as the other restrictions they'll get?

I think they want to bring back PG and hope they can do a S&T for Harden, but i honestly don't know who wants him for the salary he's going to want. The teams with space that are good like the 76ers and Magic don't want Harden. They want PG. There's no way the young teams with cap space sign him like Detroit, Utah, or the Spurs. So who's trading for him that would sign him to a big deal and send back some salary? The only team I can think of is the Bulls, and that means Lavine needs to go somewhere else.


If Harden stays with the Clippers, it'll be for more like $35-40M/yr, not $50.