re: Official 2018 Trade Deadline Thread: Update Dante to Brooklyn

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There's no way we give up a first, the Kings are trying to dump long-term contracts. 3 deals with 3 years remaining for Ajinca's 1 1/2 year deal seems fair enough.

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They are all minimum contracts, and better than minimum contracts b/c two of them are first round picks on rookie deals, so they actually hold some value. That's not how you dump contracts, dumping rookie deals for nothing. But the Kings are morons so there's that.

Would like to take on Labissiere if we could get him for peanuts.

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Would we have any money to offer Frye as a buyout?

we do not have a roster spot, but we have DPE worth ~2,5 millions. so we may take a player into DPE

but using it - we will go into tax

so if we are going to sign anybody additional (will it be minimum deal for the rest of the season or something other) - we need to clear more salary than we are receiving

right now Liggins is signed into injury exception

so it won't be hard to clear a spot

but Dell has bigger plans. will it be a trade using pick, salary dump, exchange of bad contract

I don't except anything big.
but I expect that our pick is still available (sorry Crewz)

Pels can be third party involved.

For sure Dell would like to make a type Cole/Pondexter move.

FWIW - Pels have FOUR exceptions

DPE of Ajinca $2.48 millions
Trade exceptions- $3.853 millions (QPon), $ 3.517 millions (Buddy), $2.09 millions (Frazier).

Buddy's will expire soon, Frazier around draft, Q next season

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FWIW - Pels have FOUR exceptions

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Those exceptions are to be used to trade for a player without giving a player back. That's impossible for us b/c we aren't going into the tax this year, and we can't clear cap space b/c no one is taking Ajinca for nothing, and we have no other useable assets anyone would want.

Cutting Tony Allen doesn't clear cap space. Everyones salary is locked in now. You can cut him, sure, but all that does is create a roster spot.

If we add a player without a trade, we will go into the tax, and that ain't happening. the only way we can add a player is by trading Ajinca/Diallo, and we aren't trading Asik unless it's for an expiring contract like Joe Johnson and that ain't happening b/c we aren't a title contender and that would be a waste of a 1st round pick just to rent Joe for a year and have some cap relief from the tax next year, when we can have that simply by stretching Asik. We cannot trade Asik for someone with years remaining on their deal. It's just not possible to stay under the tax next year if we do that.
Any trade we make will involve Ajinca, Diallo, or one of the 1 year minimum salary guys, and if it involves Ajinca, then it will be to get back a player while saving salary. If by some miracle they have their 1st round pick after that trade, then they could possibly use one of these exceptions, but as i said, i think it's dumb for us to use a 1st round pick to rent a player for a year. We won't be able to resign them b/c we'd go into the tax, and we aren't a title contender, so it makes zero sense at this time.

Pawel aren’t you the one that said Asiks days are numbered? I’m preparing for Asik to get stretched bc I cannot see a scenario where anyone takes his contract. Have you heard otherwise?

You dont need to have inside info to understand that the way this team is constructed - Asik cannot be a Pelican after July 1st.

So salary dump this season or around moratorium in July.
Or stretching. There is no other way.

The way his deal is constructed he might be kinda asset after next season.
But unless Pels are unwiling to pay tax and are going to pay max to Boogie - Asik is gone.