re: Interesting Melo trade idea with Pels as facilitators

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If you could turn that into a good FA

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In this case that good FA would be Redick.

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If it free'd up enough for Otto Porter, than it's a good deal.

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Unless you really overpay Redick, you probably have to end up eating Jamal Crawford's contract to make salaries match. It is roughly the same as Asik's but a year shorter. Trading Asik doesn't really free up cap space here.

The main benefit of this multi-team deal is the Clippers picks which let you keep Moore while turning Holiday into Bledsoe and Redick. Holiday's price obviously plays a role, but as Teddy/NoFox said keeping Holiday and turning Moore + Fraizer + 1st into someone like Bledsoe is probably a better solution.