re: Basketball Only

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Smart-Jrue-Brown-Tatum-Rim Protector is an interesting lineup that could be special defensively while still playing uptempo.

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That's the thing they need to figure out, and to a certain degree they kind of need to figure it out now. If they trade Tatum/Smart/Brown for just AD the Pels will have negligible cap space if they plan to keep Niko too. They'd pretty much be limited to the MLE. I'm just not sure what kind of rim protection you're going to get with the MLE. So then the question becomes do you do a "save a team money" trade like Ajinca for Wes Johnson using Solo? Solo for Biyombo for instance?

BUT, if Solo for Biyombo is the likely way you plug that hole, for the love of God why aren't you doing Randle/Moore for Biyombo and a 1st now? I get the Pels wanting to have as clean of a slate as possible for the next GM, but it just feels like where the team is at more assets would be better than a cleaner slate.