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That's a fortune!

reub wrote:@MikeAScotto
The New York Knicks have interest in unrestricted free agent Mario Hezonja, league sources told The Athletic. Knicks general manager Scott Perry was in Orlando when the Magic selected Hezonja fifth overall in 2015.

Young with plenty of upside. I want this to happen.

I suspect the kings will sign him to a multi year deal, although a couple of years ago I seem to remember him wanting to be a Knick. He's meant to be quite arrogant and a bad defender if I remember correctly from the 2015 Case For threads.

smackeddog wrote:So available SG's is down to:

Tyreke Evans
laVine
Avery Bradley
JJ Redick
Marcus Smart
Caldwell-Pope
Wayne Ellington
Garrett Temple
Lance Stephenson
Seth Curry

That's still a lot- and most of the big money has dried up (I think only Lakers, 76ers, Kings, Bulls are left, plus Hawks who likely won't be after anyone), so I guess a lot of these players will be had for the MLE or less. It's really killed our chances of trading CLee.

Lakers are so fixated on max guys, they could actually build a team of good support players around Lebron and keep all their young guards- signing Marcus Smart and Avery Bradley would give them a great defensive backcourt vs the Warriors. Luc Mbah a Moute, Favors, Len, there are some nice role players and backups out there- I'd rather go down that route than sign Cousins.

Don’t tell Briggs Seth Curry is available. I sometimes think he believe Seth is better than his brother.

CrushAlot wrote:Begley reporting the Knicks and Hezonja have mutual interest.

That would be our best move. A lot of upside for Fiz to work with. Could be a long term piece if he has a good season.

If Melo is bought out, could see him landing in LA with LeBron...

CLEE and Ron Bakerfor Carmelo Anthony. After which we waive Melo.

This move saves OKC ton of money in luxury taxes and get them a solid 2 guard while roberson is on the mend and gives them 2 solid defenders giving george more time to focus on defense.

This move makes sense for us as we finally get rid of CLee's contract and frees up our plan for 2019. Dotson gets more time.

Melo then gets to team up with LBJ whereever he goes.

With the extra roster spot I would get Jarrett jack back as we lose a veteran presence in Lee.

Backcourt then looks like:

Frank/Trey/Jack
Hardaway/Mudiay/Dotson

unstopaball12 wrote:Another scenario is to move CLEE to Philly for Bayless and a second round pick and waive him.

Philly is losing shooters and Clee gives them depth they lost when marco left them for the spurs. Bayless is dead weight for them.

There are ridiculous amount of SGs still available at cheap deals, unfortunately. 76ers are waiting to see where LeBron and Leonard land before making any signings.

DONT see any team trading for Lee while Avery Bradley can be had for the MLE

unstopaball12 wrote:Another scenario is to move CLEE to Philly for Bayless and a second round pick and waive him.

Philly is losing shooters and Clee gives them depth they lost when marco left them for the spurs. Bayless is dead weight for them.

unstopaball12 wrote:I think the best move to make this off season is to move CLee and fix the balance of the roster. 1 out of the field trade I want to look at is:

CLEE and Ron Bakerfor Carmelo Anthony. After which we waive Melo.

This move saves OKC ton of money in luxury taxes and get them a solid 2 guard while roberson is on the mend and gives them 2 solid defenders giving george more time to focus on defense.

This move makes sense for us as we finally get rid of CLee's contract and frees up our plan for 2019. Dotson gets more time.

Melo then gets to team up with LBJ whereever he goes.

With the extra roster spot I would get Jarrett jack back as we lose a veteran presence in Lee.

Backcourt then looks like:

Frank/Trey/Jack
Hardaway/Mudiay/Dotson

We don't have the ability to take the salary differential into cap space. If we traded for Melo, it would have to be subject to the rules for balancing money.

Courtney Lee, Lance Thomas and Ron Baker would work for Carmelo, however. It still would give the Thunder about $9 million in immediate cap savings, while providing them with a good rotation player in Courtney Lee. If they need to save more money, buying out/stretching Lance Thomae' contract could be an option and would be less of cap hit long-term (~$2.5 million per for 5 seasons) than simply buying out Melo (~$10 million per for 3 seasons). So in theory, they could save $13 million by making this deal.