Earth Rider said:
I wonder if some teams don't want to help the Spurs, given we recently jumped many teams in the lotter to get Wemby, Castle and Harper. Also have Fox.
They also may not want to make a trade to help the Spurs because they are tired of our success, plus few teams, if any, have interest in the players the spurs are open to trade.
I think that Milwaukee doesnt want to dump Portis if a Giannis trade doesn't happen. They hope they can get lucky in the lottery and convince Giannis to stay this off-season because getting McDaniels, Randle and no picks is an awful return.
Spurs aren't going to attach a 2nd just to move Sochan and also dont want to take on bad salary.
PHX and Denver are both within 500k of getting out from the luxury tax and Minn and LAC are both 4-5M from it. I think they will do more deals. All are WC teams and all want to win now. That makes is more complicated for us.
We could have helped Orlando get out, but they got a better deal by dumping Tyus Jones.
The only players that got moved I would have liked to have taken a flier on are Ousmane Dieng and Taylor Hendricks. Also would take SloMo from Memphis. Memphis could trade us SloMo for Sochan and save 2M or trade us Taylor Hendricks and get off next year's salary, but I dont think the Spurs want to take on next year's salary.
I do think we might just offer Sochan a buyout and then use his spot to sign Khris Middleton when the Mavs buy him out. I would have loved to try to get Royce ONeale or Sam Hauser, but both those teams are trying to win and the Spurs might not want to take on their guaranteed salary.
But of all the players traded, not getting in to get Dieng, Hendricks, or SloMo doesn't really hurt us.
Hopefully we land something today