re: Trade Thoughts

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Nobody gave a solid answer

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His cap hold is just $16.9 million. You aren't going to sign a comparable PG for that amount, any PG you get for that amount or lower will be a down grade. Do you think cheaping out and signing Darren Collison will improve the team or starting no defense Tim Frazier?

Most people that have wanted to trade Holiday this season have been thinking 2 things. Trading Holiday for a pick and tanking, which clearly isn't an option any more. Or people wanted to avoid over paying him and taking up too much cap space to acquire a 2nd star. Well we have our 2nd star now so there's not as much need to preserve the cap space.

I also think we probably shouldn't even be aiming to have cap space. Let's say you dump Ajinca and Pondexter, stretch Asik and let Holiday walk. I'm doing this from memory, but that would be in the low $30s in cap space. Sign Galinarri for 20-25 and use the rest to absorb Rubio in a trade. You've replaced Holiday (with a downgrade) and added a scoring wing.

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Keep Holiday, trade Ajinca/Pondexter/Frazier and your 2018 pick for someone like Fournier AND still have your $8.4 million MLE to spend on a good back up PG or Big. Say keep DMo or maybe add Shaun Livingston.

So Rubio + Galinarri vs Holiday + Fournier + Livingston