Offseason / Moves you'd make Thread

Here is our financial outlook:



Here are the corresponding financial tables for 24-25:

















Lets start with the folks moving into the offseason with no contract:

Jonas Valanciunas (+15.4M)
Cody Zeller (+3.1M)
Naji Marshall (+1.9M)


Now lets look at potential 24-25 Trade Deadline expiring deals:

Jose Alvarado (1.9M) // Assuming Team picks up option
JRE (2.1M) // Assuming Team picks up option
Brandon Ingram (36M)
Larry Nance Jr (11.2M)

Guys who could get an extension:

Trey Murphy (5.1M) available for Rookie extension ~30-35M
Brandon Ingram (36M) available for Veteran Max (non Supermax) 40-42M

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Building around Zion needs:

PG
Rim Running Big / Stretch Big

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My thoughts:

Assuming were truly stuck with Willie Green its time to eject his crutches:

1) Trade BI during the summer as this is the last opportunity to get anything of value back.

2) Eject Larry Nance this summer as well or trade deadline for a missing piece.

3) Allow Naji to walk.

4) Not a Pels Talk Favorite Here: I would not pick up Jose's Team Option. There is a certified logjam at the guard/wing position currently. Unless you are completely ready to give up on Hawk or Dyson, they need playing time that Jose currently takes up. Assuming you dont trade CJ and add another PG, you have:

PG
CJ
Dyson
Jose
Hawk

That means 1 guard isnt playing and the 4th in line maybe gets garbage time minutes. At some point you have to develop or eject your draft picks.


5) Do not pick up JRE's option and give that money to sign Karlo to a 2 year deal with a team option. (Assuming he shows promise at Summer League)

6) Matt Ryan was signed to a real NBA deal so job is done there (Fanspo seems to not have updated yet)

7) JV is walking no matter what.

8) Id explore feelers for CJ but its not a priority.

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Starting Core:

Center
Zion
Trey
Herb
New PG or CJ

Bench

Back Up Center
CJ
Dyson
Hawk
Matt

Trades:

BI has to go out for either a Center or PG.
Larry has to either be traded for expirings or the same as BI.

If BI goes for a PG we do have cap space to sign a "OK" center again next year, but we definitely should be using a draft pick on a gamba center.

I think Dyson at the 4 minutes should be explored next year just to help with the log jam in the back court.