CJ + Meyers for Love + Frye (expiring) and a pick swap of our pick for the BK pick? How about that? Then use our AC trade exception to get someone like Jeremy Lamb or Courtney Lee to be our SG. Dame/Lee/Aminu/Love/Nurk is pretty decent. And we will have a definite lottery pick in the summer to mess around with and a bit more salary flexibility.
Interesting, but the problem is, in order to take on Meyer's contract, they need to send an equally shitty one back. Shumpert would work, but damn that guy sucks and his contract is only 1 year shorter than Meyers. Fry would work, is an expiring contract and C.J. + Meyers for Love + Frye would get us under the luxury tax threshold. But, the article says "Frye will end up in Sac, for sure". BNM
What stupid reporting. The Cavs are over the cap. They have no big trade exceptions. They have no big expiring contracts. So how the hell would they save us money?
So we should devalue the return on CJ just to get rid of Meyers? How do these guys get paid for this shit
I don't think the framework that I mentioned is all that bad. CJ + Meyers for Love + Frye + some sort of pick or pick swap is not too off. Lowe and Windhorst are among the most connected and intelligent nba reporters fwiw. I'm prolly not doing justice with my paraphrasing. It's a good convo.
Any CJ/Love package is a terrible idea..if you’re portland. We’re giving up a player’s prime years for someone else’s tail end. No thank you.
CJ for Love means our backcourt consists of 2 6’0 point guards, a dude who can’t shoot and pat. Pass on that
However I would do CJ/Collins/and a pick for Anthony Davis Dame has stated he would like to play with Davis and if we had nurk/davis/dame I would be fine with pat starting.
By taking back a player with an expiring contract that that also gets us under the luxury tax threshold for this year. Frye is exactly that player. McCollum + Leonard = $33,867, 068 Love + Frye = $30,063,262 Difference = $3,803,806 POR is currently $2,849,291 over the tax threshold. This trade gets us under the threshold this year. So, we would not be paying any tax, and would actually get a share from the teams that are. Plus, it postpones year one of any potential repeater penalty by another year. And, Frye is an expiring contract we could let walk. Meyers has another two years and $21.7 million left on his contract. Unfortunately, CLE is hot to get George Hill from SAC and need Frye's contract to make that deal work. Maybe we can work out a 3-team trade where we get Love and Frye, Meyers and Crowder go to SAC and C.J. and Hill go to CLE. That works salary wise, but other bits and pieces would be required to make it worth it to POR and SAC as they would be gift wrapping a much improved backcourt to CLE. A 3-guard rotation of Thomas, Hill and C.J. would be perfect for CLE. Hill can play both on and off the ball and is an excellent defender. So, he fits well next to both Thomas and C.J. With Crowder gone, they move LeBron back SF, Love back to PF and insert Tristan Thompson back into the starting line up at center. They get J.R. Smith, who has been miserable this year, out of the starting line up (replaced by C.J.) and maybe out of the rotation all together (they still have Wade and Korver to provide scoring off the bench). BNM
See my suggested 3-team trade. Its not like SAC wants Frye. He's just needed to make the salaries work. http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=yc9dpu6o BNM
If it's a 3-team trade then that's different. He didn't suggest a 3-team trade so he was disagreeing with the stuff he reported haha. Still, CJ for Love is an awful idea. We have a logjam of bigs. We don't have anyone to replace CJ (Lamb is a huge downgrade). Love is on the decline, while CJ is still 26. CJ for Love doesn't make us any better defensively, we lose a ball handler, and our offense doesn't get any better. I don't know why people are entertaining this idea.
