The 2022 Trade Idea Thread, now with more urgency!

Which teams can create maximum cap space in 2022?
Using Spotrac's projected cap space figures for the 2022-23 season as a guideline, assuming teams pick up options on foundational rotational players and promising prospects on rookie contracts, the following teams can potentially offer a max salary (or close to it) without creating additional cap space or reaching a sign-and-trade agreement (understanding that star players can generally orchestrate their way anywhere):

• Orlando Magic ($48 million)
  
  
• San Antonio Spurs ($41.9 million)
  
  
• Detroit Pistons ($41.4 million)
  
  
• Oklahoma City Thunder ($40.5 million)
  
  
• Memphis Grizzlies ($40.4 million)
  
  
• Charlotte Hornets ($33.1 million)

I'm not too scared of those teams making a big offer on him. Maybe the Pistons?

 

I'm not saying their Situations fit 100%. I was merely using the example that he got way overpaid and we matched to keep our talent from leaving. They are obviously different players.

 

as someone who has been wanting to steal one of the million wings the Hawks have on their roster for months, this is welcome news.



Give me Reddish/Hunter/Heurter.

 

the allen crabbe match was not a mistake. there was hardly an opportunity cost when you consider what else was available and how far above the cap we were going to be. And we got out of the crabbe deal fairly unscathed.

an overpay perhaps because of the shock value of the $ number, but not the sole reason for us becoming a treadmill.

 

In hindsight it absolutely was a mistake. It was not a mistake at the time because his cap hold was so low until we matched. The bigger mistake that year was Evan Turner.

All i'm saying is, if Detroit offered him a ton of money because they couldn't get anyone else and they thought he was a good good next to Cade, do we really want to match? I would be more than happy to spend 15/yr on Simons. But do we spend 20 if someone was willing to give him that? Even if we sign him at 15. I'd like to move CJ or Powell so we don't continue to have most of our money tied up in 4 guards.

 

what did Crabbe's deal affect outside of PA's pocket book? who else could we have signed instead of Carbbe?

i don't want to give up talent for nothing. ever. especially RFAs. that's wasting assets and all the investment the team has put into developing Ant for three + yrs.

and your hypothetical is pretty far fetched. detroit is not spending that kinda $ on Ant when they have Cade AND Hayes, with a roster going nowhere.

teams just don't do poison pill kinda contracts anymore, rather they look to facilitate S&Ts. (like the bulls with Markkenen or Lonzo).

 

Maybe, maybe not.....but there are definitely some mistake in that graph.

 

if you're pointing to the nicholson thing, i agree that stretching his deal was a disaster, but that coulda obviously been avoided.

 

Exactly. It hurt us from manuevering around. Nicholson is because of Crabbe.

Also, Detroit was an example. I'm not guaranteeing they do it. Who knows. I want to resign Simons too. Just not at an outrageous amount.

 

Turner was underrated. We’ve sucked since we traded him. Trading him and Mo and letting Aminu go is why our D sucks.

 

Utah (potential RoCo destination) just opened up a roster spot

 

yes...it could have and should have been avoided by not matching the ridiculous Crabbe offer sheet

 

He was a swiss army knife who just couldn't shoot 3s but he was also very vocal as a floor general on defense...like Nance is......we wouldn't have gotten to the WCF without Turner that playoff run..he showed up in the playoffs...

 

O'Neale/Hughes works.....not sure if that is anything anyone would want. I'd take O'Neale/Paschell which works as well. They might be open to moving Ingles, but he is also expiring and has an even higher salary than RoCo. The Blazers want to be under the tax, not get more over it.

 

Roco + Snell for Ingles + future protected pick puts us pretty close to the tax threshold and now Utah can absorb another player.

 

Wasn't sure where to put this?

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/j...il-blazers-to-someone-who-will-love-them.html

 

They wouldn't need to open up a roster spot to do a two for one deal though.

 

We'd have to sign a 14th player which cancels out most if not all of the tax savings from that.

Utah can't really trade a 1st round pick until 2028 and since they just traded their 2028 2nd today they would basically only be able to trade it unprotected (which they wouldn't do here). Other than that they now have their own 2025 2nd, Memphis 2nds in 2022 and 2026, and the least favorable of OKC, Houston, Indiana, or Miami in 2027. That's not a lot of sweetener there, even though I like the premise.

Edit: They can't trade their 2025 2nd because of protections on one of the 1sts they own.

 

He’s from Orlando right? That might get interesting