re: NBA Trade Deadline talk

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Unless they want to lower their tax bill and use some money to re-sign Claxton in the offseason.

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And they could move him in the offseason if they wanted to do that. They aren't in danger of being in the tax next year.
I could see them moving him to have cap space though, but then you could make the argument having him would be just as beneficial so you could do a S&T for whoever it is they wanted to sign, but the only available top tier FA this summer looking to move will be Donovan Mitchell.
and the Nets have cap holds for Dinwiddie of $30M, O'Neale for $18M and Claxton for $16M, so they aren't going to have cap space to sign him outright unless they resigned Dinwiddie for $20M and let O'Neale go.
I'm sure the Cavs would rather expiring Simmons and a 1st than cap space considering there wouldn't be much out there to use it on.

The Nets have nice future 1sts, but they have much of nothing over the next 3 years.

This is what the Nets have:
2024 - nothing
2025 - Phx 1st, OKC 1st (likely b/c of swap option), Miami 2nd
2026 - nothing
2027 - own 1st is a swap option for Houston, phx 1st
2028 - own 1st, phx or Philly 1st, own 2nd
2029 - own 1st, Dallas 1st, own 2nd